What Cilantro means
Cilantro is a Mexican ingredient name of Spanish origin meaning "coriander leaf". It comes from Spanish cilantro, from Latin coriandrum. It is pronounced see-LAHN-troh, and it is most associated with the whole country.
An Old World herb with a Latin name that became inseparable from Mexican food after the conquest; nothing about it is indigenous but the quantity used.
This is a site about what Mexican words mean, so there is no recipe here. For the name itself: The words that appear inside dish names: the chiles (ancho, guajillo, pasilla, chipotle), the corn words (nixtamal, masa, tortilla, elote), and the tools (comal, molcajete, metate). Learn these and most menu items decode themselves.
