Vietnamese Coriander: Another Fantastic Cilantro Substitute
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Epic Gardening
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🗓️ 21 August 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Love cilantro but hate its fast-to-bolt personality? Hate cilantro but crave an herby element in your homemade salsa? Up your culinary game with unsung garden hero, Vietnamese coriander!
Vietnamese coriander, or Vietnamese cilantro, is a heat-loving perennial with slightly spicy, flavorful leaves that are a great culinary substitute for cilantro or mint. If papalo herb isn’t your thing, this may be the cilantro alternative for you! It thrives in warm climates spring through fall (zones 9-11) and in pots in cooler climates until the first frost.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello my friends. I hope you are having a wonderful day. It's Kevin from Epic Gardening and hey |
| 0:05.9 | before we get into this episode take a screenshot share this on Instagram and tag me |
| 0:12.4 | what you're doing when you're listening. I would really |
| 0:14.4 | love to know kind of how this podcast fits in your day. So shoot me a tag I would love to |
| 0:18.7 | share it on Instagram but today we're talking about Vietnamese coriander. |
| 0:23.4 | So we've talked about popolo herb, |
| 0:25.8 | which is a substitute for cilantro. |
| 0:28.4 | For those of you who either don't like the flavor of cilantro |
| 0:31.4 | or perhaps find it to bolt too quickly in the summer. So Vietnamese |
| 0:35.4 | coriander is another fantastic substitute for growing |
| 0:39.6 | cilantro. It has some of the same properties as Popolo where it won't bolt as quickly. It is a heat-loving perennial |
| 0:47.6 | Which is a fantastic fantastic option and as you might imagine it is a popular herb in Vietnam. It's known and I will not |
| 0:57.3 | pronounce this correctly, Ra-ROM in Vietnamese and it's very very common in Vietnamese and Southeast Asian cuisine. |
| 1:04.0 | So it has this lemony pepper taste to it and it is a fantastic |
| 1:08.8 | fantastic grower. So let's go ahead and talk about exactly how to grow it. |
| 1:15.0 | You may find it hard to find at a local nursery. |
| 1:18.6 | I actually have struggled to find this at a local nursery. |
| 1:21.4 | One of your better bets is to try an online vendor. |
| 1:25.6 | Searching for the herbs alternative names could also be pretty helpful. |
| 1:29.1 | So you can look up Vietnamese cilantro, Vietnamese mint, Ra Rau-ROM. |
| 1:33.2 | If you want to know how to spell that, |
| 1:34.5 | go ahead and check the podcast description. |
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