Cilantro
Coriandrum sativumAlso called coriander leaf, coriander and Chinese parsley
Cilantro is an herb used for its leaves. Cooks use the leaves raw or as a garnish with fish and meat.
- Plant-based
- Gluten-free
- No listed allergens
About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details
- Category
- Herbs & spices
- Part used
- Leaf
- Family
- Apiaceae
- Cooked most in
- The Americas
- Top country
- United States
- Dishes
- 1 in the catalogue
- Energy
- 279 kcal per 100 g
Photo: Rupeshm364 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
In the kitchen
How to use cilantro
Typical ways to cook or use it
- Garnish
- Raw
Cooking with it
Heat weakens the leaves’ flavour. Add them just before serving to preserve it.
Goes well with
- fish
- meat
Nutrition
What 100 g of cilantro holds
Protein 28%Fat 6%Carbohydrate 66%of the macronutrients by weight
| Energy | 279 kcal · 1,167 kJ |
|---|---|
| Protein | 22 g |
| Fat | 4.8 g |
| of which saturated | 0.12 g |
| Carbohydrate | 52 g |
| of which sugars | 7.3 g |
| Fibre | 10 g |
| Sodium | 211 mg |
| Cholesterol | 0 mg |
| Potassium | 4,466 mg |
|---|---|
| Calcium | 1,246 mg |
| Iron | 42 mg |
| Magnesium | 694 mg |
| Zinc | 4.7 mg |
| Vitamin C | 567 mg |
| Vitamin A (RAE) | 293 µg |
| Folate | 274 µg |
Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 170921), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.
On the table
Dishes made with cilantro
Chicken Wonton Tacos
United States
Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include cilantro.
Good to know
Diet and allergens: cilantro in detail
- 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
Around the world
What cilantro is called
Spanish
cilantro · culantro
French
feuille de coriandre · persil arabe · persil chinois · coriandre
Italian
foglie di coriandolo · coriandolo
Portuguese
coentro
German
Korianderblätter · Koriander · Koriandergrün
Dutch
korianderblad · koriander · korianderblaadjes
Greek
hoja de cilantro
Turkish
Kişniş
Russian
кориандр · кинза
Polish
liście kolendry · kolendra
Hindi
धनिया
Bangla
ধনিয়া
Show all 46 languages
Afrikaans
koljander
Albanian
koriandër
Armenian
համեմ · գինձ
Asturian
cilantro · perexil chinu · dania · culantro européu
Azerbaijani
Keşniş
Belarusian
каляндра
Brazilian Portuguese
coentro
Breton
koriandrez · koriandr
Bulgarian
кориандър
Catalan
celiandre · coriandre
Czech
koriandr · list koriandru
Danish
korianderblad · korianderblade
Esperanto
koriandrofolio
Finnish
korianterinlehdet · korianteri · korianterinlehti
Galician
coandro · coriandro
Georgian
ხმელი ქინძი
Hungarian
korianderlevél · koriander
Japanese
シラントロ · コリアンダー · パクチー
Kurdish (Latin)
gijnîj
Macedonian
коријандер
Malay
ketumbar
Malayalam
മല്ലി
Maltese
kosbor
Marathi
कोथंबीर
Nepali
धनिया
Norwegian Bokmål
korianderblad · koriander
Norwegian Nynorsk
korianderblad
Occitan
coriandre
Piedmontese
coriàndol
Romanian
coriandru
Sanskrit
धान्याक
Slovenian
koriandrovi listi · koriander
Swedish
korianderblad · koriander
Ukrainian
коріандр
Welsh
coriander
Sources and credits
Data
- GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
- USDA FoodData Central (Foundation, SR Legacy): nutrition values (Public domain (US government work, CC0))
- Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
- Wikimedia Commons: photos
Wikidata item: Q65523167
Photos
Photo: Rupeshm364 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons