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Dish of the week: Holubtsi

11 Culantro Recipes From 3 Cuisines.

Long serrated leaves that taste like cilantro concentrated several times over, and unlike cilantro they hold their flavor through cooking. It is a core component of Puerto Rican and Dominican sofrito, of Trinidadian green seasoning, and it is served raw alongside Vietnamese pho where it is known as ngo gai. One leaf replaces a small bunch of cilantro. It keeps far longer in the fridge than soft herbs, wrapped loosely in paper.

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The recipes.

Bowl of pale orange coconut rice studded with green pigeon peas and flecks of chopped herb

Panama55 min

Arroz con Guandú y Coco

Coconut Rice with Pigeon Peas

Split fried bake stuffed with crisp fried fish, shredded cabbage, pineapple and bright green chadon beni sauce

Trinidad and Tobago2 hr 45 min

Bake and Shark

Trinidadian Fried Shark in Fried Bread

Cubes of white fish cured in lime with sliced onion, celery and chopped culantro in a cup with crackers

Panama1 hr 10 min

Ceviche de Corvina

Panamanian Lime-Cured Sea Bass

A pot of Trinidadian curry channa and aloo — golden chickpeas and soft potato chunks in thick rust-coloured gravy with chopped chadon beni

Trinidad and Tobago1 hr 5 min

Curry Channa and Aloo

Trinidadian Chickpea and Potato Curry

Bowl of Tobago curry crab, orange crab halves in thick yellow coconut curry with boiled flour dumplings

Trinidad and Tobago1 hr 30 min

Curry Crab and Dumpling

Tobago Coconut Crab Curry

Two soft turmeric-yellow fried baras folded around curried chickpeas with tamarind sauce dripping onto waxed paper

Trinidad and Tobago3 hr 10 min

Doubles

Trinidadian Curried Chickpeas in Fried Flatbread

A pot of Dominican stewed red beans in thick orange broth with pieces of squash and chopped cilantro

Dominican Republic55 min

Habichuelas Guisadas

Dominican Stewed Red Beans

A heavy pot of Trinidadian pelau — dark caramel-browned chicken pieces buried in rice with pigeon peas and diced carrot

Trinidad and Tobago1 hr 30 min

Pelau

Trinidadian Caramelised Chicken and Rice

Mound of shredded beef in red tomato sauce with pepper strips, spooned over white rice

Panama2 hr 20 min

Ropa Vieja Panameña

Shredded Beef in Criollo Sauce

Deep bowl of cloudy chicken broth with a bone-in hen piece, white yam chunks and chopped green herb

Panama2 hr 55 min

Sancocho de Gallina

Hen and Yam Soup with Culantro

Pot of Trinidadian stew chicken, dark mahogany bone-in pieces in glossy brown gravy with onion and thyme

Trinidad and Tobago1 hr 35 min

Trinidadian Stew Chicken

Browning Sugar Braised Chicken

also known asrecao, ngo gai, sawtooth herb

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