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Chervil

Anthriscus cerefoliumAlso called French parsley

Chervil is an herb used to season and garnish dishes. It pairs with seafood, carrots, chives, and parsley.

  • Plant-based
  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Family
Apiaceae
Cooked most in
Europe
Top country
France
Chervil, plant

Photo: Derzsi Elekes Andor · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use chervil

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Garnish
  • Season

Goes well with

Nutrition

What 100 g of chervil holds

Per 100 g, dried. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 30%Fat 5%Carbohydrate 64%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of chervil, dried
Energy237 kcal · 990 kJ
Protein23 g
Fat3.9 g
of which saturated0.17 g
Carbohydrate49 g
Fibre11 g
Sodium83 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of chervil, dried: minerals and vitamins
Potassium4,740 mg
Calcium1,346 mg
Iron32 mg
Magnesium130 mg
Zinc8.8 mg
Vitamin C50 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)293 µg
Folate274 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 171318), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where chervil is cooked

1 dish in the catalogue uses chervil. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list chervil among their ingredients.

Origins

Native to
Europe, Asia, Switzerland, Iran

On the table

Dishes made with chervil

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

  • Mesclun

    France

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include chervil.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: chervil in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What chervil is called

Names in 65 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Chaerophyllum cerefolium · Scandix cerefolium · Chaerophyllum sativum · Chaerophyllum nemorosum

  • French

    cerfeuil commun · cerfeuil

  • Italian

    cerfoglio

  • Portuguese

    Cerefólio · Cerefolho

  • German

    Echter Kerbel · Garten-Kerbel · Gartenkerbel · Kerbel

  • Dutch

    echte kervel · Kervel

  • Greek

    Μυρώνι

  • Turkish

    Frenk maydanozu

  • Russian

    Кервель ажурный · Myrrhis cerefolium · Кервель обыкновенный · Купырь бутенелистный

  • Polish

    trybula ogrodowa

  • Arabic

    سرفيل بستاني · سرفيل سرفيلي · مقدونس افرنجي

  • Persian

    جعفری فرنگی

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  • Armenian

    Կերբելուկ մոմատերև

  • Basque

    Apoperrexil · perraitz

  • Belarusian

    Маркоўнік цмяналісты · Маркоўнік цьмянечналісты

  • Breton

    Serfilh

  • Bulgarian

    див керевиз · Азмацуг · Кервел

  • Cantonese

    法國芫茜

  • Catalan

    cerfull

  • Central Kurdish

    مەندۆک

  • Chinese

    法國芫荽 · 蜡叶峨参 · 雪维菜

  • Cornish

    serfel

  • Corsican

    Pedi puddinu · Pede pullinu

  • Croatian

    Krasuljica

  • Czech

    kerblík třebule · Třebule pravá

  • Danish

    have-kørvel · dansk kørvel

  • Egyptian Arabic

    سرفيل بستانى

  • Esperanto

    cerefolio

  • Estonian

    aed-harakputk

  • Finnish

    maustekirveli · kirveli

  • Galician

    Cerefolio

  • Georgian

    ჭყიმამხალი

  • Hebrew

    תמכה · Anthriscus cerefolium

  • Hindi

    चेवील · केरविल

  • Hungarian

    zamatos turbolya

  • Icelandic

    garðakerfill · kerfill

  • Ido

    Cerfolio

  • Indonesian

    Cerwil

  • Irish

    costóg

  • Japanese

    チャービル · ウイキョウゼリ · セルフィーユ

  • Korean

    처빌

  • Latin

    Anthriscus cerefolium

  • Lithuanian

    Daržinis builis

  • lld

    Ciovita

  • Low Saxon

    Kaarvel

  • Luxembourgish

    Kierwel

  • Macedonian

    крбулица

  • Malay

    Cervil

  • Northern Frisian

    Kerbel

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    hagekjørvel · kjørvel

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    hagekjørvel

  • Occitan

    Cerfuèlh

  • Old English

    cerfille

  • Ossetic

    Гæнгæлы · Мæкæрæз · Хуыскъæл · Дзиликъу

  • Picard

    Cherfu · Chérfuë

  • Romanian

    Hasmațuchi

  • Serbian

    Krbuljica

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    雪维菜

  • Slovak

    trebuľka voňavá

  • Slovenian

    prava krebuljica · krebuljica

  • Swedish

    dansk körvel · trädgårdskörvel

  • Tamil

    தோட்டப் பூண்டு

  • Thai

    เชอร์วิล

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    法國芫荽

  • Ukrainian

    кервель

  • Welsh

    Gorthyfail y gerddi · y berllys · sierfel

  • Wu Chinese

    车窝草

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q218462

Photos

Photo: Derzsi Elekes Andor · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons