Dry celentro for spice?

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Derek

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As the topic states, Can I dry this stuff out on paper towel's use my morter and make a spice out of it?
 
Cilantro/corriander can be dried and used like that.
When it's dried you can use your mortar & pestle, but you will really only have to crush it with your fingers. It will shrink tremendously.

Edited to add: You'll use less dried than fresh also. That's important to remember, even if I forgot to mention it first time around.
 
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Cilantro really loses his fresh wonderful taste when dried, and the dried stuff is almost never a substitute for fresh. I do use it to flavor dips and salad dressings...I make a homemade ranch dressing with dried cilantro as one of the ingredients, and it's very good.
 
MexicoKaren said:
Cilantro really loses his fresh wonderful taste when dried, and the dried stuff is almost never a substitute for fresh. I do use it to flavor dips and salad dressings...I make a homemade ranch dressing with dried cilantro as one of the ingredients, and it's very good.
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Agreed! I have a jar of Spice Islands dried cilantro, but I really don't see much point in it.
 
FatManDerek said:
Some times, You gotta do, What you gotta do you know?
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Yes that is why I use an Aero Garden, growing basil, parsley, cilantro, dill, thyme and rosemary pretty much year round using it. In my garden window I grow several peppers, catnip, chives or anything I'm getting ready to put out side this time of year.
 
joec said:
Yes that is why I use an Aero Garden, growing basil, parsley, cilantro, dill, thyme and rosemary pretty much year round using it. In my garden window I grow several peppers, catnip, chives or anything I'm getting ready to put out side this time of year.
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What do you use catnip with?
 
It keeps my cats busy chewing on it instead of the other things. So I would say it is for pest control really. :brows:
 
I don't like cilantro - to me it's soapy tasting. But when I buy parsley - I don't have enough to pick my own sometimes, I don't always need it all, so I do dry it, or basil, or oregano. They do lose some flavor, but my dried are alot fresher/pungent tasting than what you can buy dried.
 
I think the only spice/herb that is better dried is oregano really. I have dried parsley and basil in the house left from the last crop I grew out doors and before I got the Aero Garden. I had hedge of them growing and have enough seed to plant a small forest of them both. I don't really use a lot of cilantro but is called for with some dishes.
 
I think dried basil, oregano, tarragon, thyme, and even parsley are aceptable substitutes for the fresh herbs if (like me) you can't always find them fresh. Dried cilantro, however, doesn't even really taste like cilantro to me. It has an interesting flavor that works in ranch dressing, but it is not cilantro.
 
I agree and will use them dried also, just a little less as the dried has a bit more concentrated taste.
 
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