When annual coriander (Coriander sativum) stops its leafy growth and bolts to seed as conditions warm up, that’s when this coriander substitute steps in to fill a flavour gap.
Although sawtooth coriander is from a different genus and doesn’t look like coriander, it has the coriander flavour and tolerates warm conditions.
Sawtooth or perennial coriander is a thistle-like biennial with long, serrated leaves.
Like coriander, it’s grown from seed but, unlike its namesake, it isn’t prone to bolting.
If its genus Eryngium sounds familiar, that’s because of the popular ornamental garden perennial known as sea holly (E. maritimum), which has spiky blue thistlelike flowers and stiff, grey-green but inedible leaves.
Another name for sawtooth coriander, derived from its native Caribbean, is culantro — not to be confused with cilantro, the…
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