What to do with a large bunch of cilantro?

My wife had to buy fresh cilantro to illustrate a school lesson. Of course she bought too much!

Is there any recipe out there that uses cilantro as the main ingredient?

I'm not sure we will be disappointed if we don't get a lot of promising recipes, the smell of all that cilantro is somewhat off-putting already! I have heard that it is an acquired taste, not sure I will be one who acquires it.

I will check back tomorrow evening! Thanks in advance!

Have a little fiesta tomorrow for dinner. You can use a lot for guacamole, a little in a fresh salsa, and the rest on your tacos.

My recipe for THE BEST guacamole (and this is a secret):
-Diced Avocados (leave them coarsely chopped...they'll mash up a bit once mixed together)
-Diced Roma Tomato (core the tomato and dice the skin...and not too much, tomato just adds color and crunch as far as I'm concerned)
-Diced Red Onion
-Chopped Cilantro ( a lot! )
-Minced Garlic ( the secret )
-Minced Jalapenos
-Salt + Pepper
-Lime juice

(dont forget the garlic...thats what puts it over the edge)

Our families are Chinese and my MIL chops up a ton of cilantro and combines with veg oil and garlic to make a runny pesto-like sauce and serves it with poached chicken purchased from Chinatown. It makes a very boring dish much more lively. It's also great with white rice. My mother and grandmother do a lot of Chinese cooking and have never made this so it's a nice discovery.

Put a great big double handful, well chopped, into the rice you are making for dinner. This also works well with dill. Make sure to add a lot of butter, too

chimuchurri sauce !

You can make Seco, which is a sauce that is similar to a chimichurri, but it contains cilantro, chile serrano, onion, garlic and beer. It is usually made with lamb, but I make it with chicken leg quarters. I stew it for about an hour with the sauce and then serve it with rice.

My favorite death-by-cilantro dish is Nuea Nam Tok, or Thai Waterfall Beef Salad. A simple sliced grilled steak on lettuce, cukes and tomatoes, with a "dressing" of fish sauce, lemon or lime juice, red chile, shallot, scallion, ground toasted rice and a ton of cilantro leaves, plus finely minced stems and roots. The perfect hot-summer-evening dish, with a lot of cilantro kick.

Cilantro-green chili chutney, like the stuff that comes with Samosas?

I'd also recommend a Cilantro Chutney. Stick it in the fridge. Make sure to use lime juice, salt, and a little vinegar to preserve it so it'll last. Depending on your spicing, you can make it more versatile - more like a base for crossing over the mex/thai/indo-pak borders. I think I'd try:

garlic
lime juice
little bit o vinegar
fresh chiles
salt
dried chiles
black pepper
cumin
And blend it into a paste the consistency of say, thick cake batter - definitely stick to a spoon. toss it into a jar, and use liberally. If you go too Indian with your spicing (toasted mustard seeds, asefoetida) you might regret it if you try to use it in Mexican cooking. Just a suggestion.

I thought I would also add, that cilantro counter effects radiation. So if you get cat scans, or radiation for cancer, cilantro seems to help the effects of eliminating this and metals in your body.

One of my really good friends is a "holistic" dietician...yeah they do exist. So take it as it is.

I thought I would also add, that cilantro counter effects radiation. So if you get cat scans, or radiation for cancer, cilantro seems to help the effects of eliminating this and metals in your body.

Could you please post some manner of documentation for this? That's quite an extreme statement, and I have never seen an assertion to this effect.

TIA.

Why not plain ole cilantro-infused oil--allowing you to add it later to almost anything else you make?

Could you please post some manner of documentation for this? That's quite an extreme statement, and I have never seen an assertion to this effect.

Sure thing, let me see what I can get from my friend. That is why I wrote, take it as it is.....

Not sure of its credibility, but I did find this.

I have used minced cilantro and ground pork for potsticker or wonton fillings.