What Is Chadon Beni (culantro) | CaribbeanPot.com
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- Get my cookbook @ www.CaribbeanPo... Learn how to grow, harvest, store and use Chadon Beni (aka bhandhanya, fitweed, long coriander, false cilantro, culantro, recao, shado beni, sawtooth, spiritweed, ngo gai, ketumbar java, Mexican coriander, donnia, and spiritweed)
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All these years since I've watched your videos, I've been saying " Shadow Bunny". No wonder nobody knew what I was looking for at the market 😂 lmao!!
Hi Chris my brother in law from NY came to visit here in Georgia and brought some Chadon beni for me. Hear nah man you would have thought is gold the man bring oui! The leaves were huge, so I blended some to make green seasoning and the rest I put in the freezer. This year I planted pimiento peppers in pots and got a huge crop, so I'm in heaven! Thanks for the video. ❤️
luv it. give that man a hug oui
A staple in every trini household!
Great video!
no lies told
I was growing this from bunches I buy at Blue Sky Supermarket in Pickering. Now I have many plants plus my niece told me to plant the little head when it dries. Now I have seedlings. I just brought mine into the house. I keep snipping out the seed heads and have lovely large leaves. Try putting 1 plant per 4 inch pot. I have my plants on a plant stand under grow lights for our Canadian winter.
Great info. thank you. I am from Hamilton, Canada. I shall try your method. But first I need to find this Chadon Beni. I buy lots of habenero from our local farmers in Brantford every yr to make my sauces. Love them
In Haiti we call it "Lozay" and we put it in the New Years pumpkin soup.
Any dish that starts with this, garlic, onions and chilis is gonna be good eats. My parents are from Guatemala where it's known as Samat and essential in a spicy turkey soup we make called Kak'-ik.
thanks for the knowledge Alberto
Good morning Chris, i grow shado bene every summer in pots and in order to get more leaves i pinch the young flower stalks don't discard blend them much stronger. Try next year too late now. Hope you try thanks again.
I shall try. Much thanks
Cut the stalks off the plants when you see the seed pods, let the seeds dry and then sprinkle the dried seeds in the soil to get new plants. When you see the stalks with the seed pods, the growth of the plant slows, which is probably why your leaves are not that large
unfortunately, the seeds never germinate for me (Canada)
@@caribbeanpot yeah same thing happened to me in NYC. It didn’t grow
Remove the stalks to encourage the leaves to grow💪🏿 I do it right here in Miami...keep one with the stalk but cut down on the seed pods wait for it to turn brown and your seeds are Soon to come💪🏿
Exactly folk, I live in Georgia. I cut this off because they're so thorny and found that they started growing back every timeI gave it a "trim". As a matter of fact, it comes back every year on it's own.
@@caribbeanpot The seeds don't like to be in unpacked soil, they don't like to covered with dirt when you are sowing. Think of the momma plant, does she bury her seeds under dirt. No, they drop and stay on top of the soil. The soil has to be sprayed three times a day, just moist not watered. Don't drown them! Make sure the soil is already wet when you sow them, and just sprinkle them on top and leave them alone. Maybe a fine mist of soil but don't push them into the soil with your finger, they will die. Your seeds should not float in the water when sowing. That is the culmanation of all the videos I have watched, I'm trying for my first time soon, just heard the most important thing to do is cut those seed stems off and it practically grows by itself like a weed. Good luck!
We called it "fitweed" in Tobago. The taste grew on me. Now I don't season without it.
luv it too bad oui
Good morning Chris, Gail here in Florida. Just wanted to share my experience with growing Chadon Beni. I bought about three plants in a pot, overwatered them and lost all but one. I got advice from Kristal @ Green Army Grow Club, a Trini startup. I then left that one plant to get really big with all the seeds, it died, and then a few weeks after I had a harvest of 🌱s. I've repeated the process about three times now and currently have a patio planter filled with Chadon Beni and two small pots.
To preserve, I dehydrate them, blend and put it a shaker for cooking. I ❤❤❤ it. The flavor cannot be imitated so we have to preserve it. Thanks bunches for all you do 🙏🏽
thanks for sharing Gail
Greetings Chris, it (chadon beni) grew wild in my yard in Trinidad, bestest taste
same at my parents home.. wild
Those were great days in Trini
The young flower stalks got tons of flavor more than the actual leaves themselves and it smells heavenly when blended, you must try it sometimes, thanks for sharing
thanks for sharing.
@@caribbeanpot Chris, those flowering stems are preventing your plants from growing more leaves. If you want to harvest the seeds you can leave them, however if you want more leaves you should prune all those flowering stems as soon as they start to grow, because the plant is using all their energy and nutrients to produce those flowers instead of producing more leaves.
I have chadon beni growing wild all over my yard in Trinidad. The plants that get some shade and moist soil tend to grow much larger leaves.
When the seed stalks start to sprout I have noticed that the leaves tend to dry up fairly quickly!
To preserve my chadon beni leaves I usually blend them with a half and half mixture of water and white vinegar, salt and garlic (a lot of garlic!). Bottle the blend and it keeps well in the fridge for months and months. You can use less vinegar to water if you dislike the vinegary flavour but the vinegar and salt are the preserving ingredients.
Fantastic to use on fish, in curries, wild meat or gamey meats!
I get mine from the Latin supermarket. I love the taste of it and i mix it with cilantro (I loooooovvvveeee me some cilantro) for my green seasoning.
yea, they use it as we do too
I have the same problem growing shado beni in UK. Normally bring over fresh plants from Thailand, bought in the market just before flying home.Once home I chop most of the leaves off and freeze them for later use. Then plant on the roots with some leaf still attached. Get about 50% success rate but like you the ones that do grow on give a lot of seed head and relatively few and small leaves. I actually managed to grow some from seed this year. I used an electric heated propogator and even with and heated propogator, germination rate was very long, well over 4 weeks before they germinated.
Shadow beni needs a tropical but cool environment to grow with best results. Here in trinidad the growers grow them on riverbanks and mountains which are cool from the proximity of water yet hot due to tropical climate.
I know Shadow Beni as coriander, such a unique flavor it adds to food
Thank you for the tips on Chadon Beni. I bought plants but they didn't make it this year so may try again next year and grow it outside. Kansas City is a bit warmer than Canada! Found it at the Asian market and made your Green Seasoning - what a flavor bomb for chicken, vegetables and fish! So enjoy your channel.
Like Nisha and Lylin said you have to cut those stalks off as soon as you see them growing. I live in London and the weather here is not good for growing shado beni, so I grow mine in pots indoors and my leaves are 3x yours Chris.
Hey Chris here in Trinidad we got lots of them I use it everyday in my dishes its an amazing seasoning
My favorite seasoning, just love it❤
Interesting video Chris, thnx for your explanation and for bringing it on CZcams 👍
Great ideas thank you. I am gonna try it like a pesto in my freezer. I grew Culantro in a window box in Connecticut USA, in my greenhouse but on the bottom shelf of the grow bench with filtered light, I got great big leaves versus the window box in full sun which had little leaves. I just harvested all the seed heads - I let all 40 plants go to seed OMG I'm still picking prickers out of my fingers
Grow it eider from seeds of root ,keep prunning the stem of the seeds low down & you would always get big leaves .keep watering .
Hi Chris I am from Hamilton Canada. I just watched your Pineapple pepper sauce. I shall tey some of our caribean stores ro look for Chedon Beni. thkss for your videos.
I have like a million of those plants in my garden it really easy to grow
easy in the Caribbean (Tropics), not so much in Canada
Love the ice cube idea for green seasoning❤
You are my favourite new subscription and now I know what culantro is I'm going to make ur brown stew chicken this weekend there's a small carribean store in my town that I've never been in hopefully they'll have all I need and some tips too! Love from the UK 👍🇬🇧
Like you mentioned, growing up in Belize, these things were everywhere, this is my first time seeing how this culantro grows like this. My mom would at it to her beans or in the stew chicken.
great flavor to add to dishes indeed
A market vendor once told me to use the young stalks and the top . There’s a lot of flavor in them. It’s definitely my favorite herb
seems I've been missing out
Thank you for sharing your awesome video i really enjoyed
certainly my pleasure
You should try pruning off the the thorny seed part as soon as you notice it, and the leaves may grow bigger.
thank you
You have to to cut the seed stalks off for the leaves to grow. Save one plant to let seed. But keep cutting off the seed stalks on the others to keep the leaves growing.
Mawnin Chris.. Much blessings.. I love using this in everything I cook..love it!
morning mornin
Thanks for sharing Chris, now I know how to store them.
my pleasure
Glad you cleared this up, I have been looking for Shadow Benny. Not largely available in the UK
Try Asian markets.. you may find it there
Go to west indian market and ask for shadow veni or asian markets and ask for burmese cilantro
Hi Chris wow once again the green thumb shows progress looks very healthy all ur seasoning an veges aways looks so very healthy........the other name is bandandia......yes Trini ppl loves their home grown green seasoning to season their pots.
😋😋
yea I mentioned that name too yea
Awesome video Chris thank you. I usually grind it up to. But, I put it in a ziplock bag late flat as you would if you were freezing tomato paste. And that way I can just break off any size piece I want when cooking.
For the first time I plant it love the way it smell
Uncle Chris , if you don't pick off some of that flowers then your leaves will remain small .you can just keep a few for seeds , the rest of the leaves will get very big .
thank you
Very helpful Chris ❤❤❤❤❤
Hi Chris I’m from Trinidad 🇹🇹 so when I go to the market and buy my bandania I’ll cut the roots and plant them in containers because I don’t have space in the yard and I get very big long leaves when I want to use it’s used regular at my home stay safe everyone and to Chris and his family stay safe bye.
yea I did grow it from roots last year
Yes uncle chris dat tun up. We really don't have it in Jamaica but it good. It can be bought at jian hing supermarket Jane and finch
nice.. I shall try there next time I'm down that way
I would make it in a green seasoning without the chive.... and use it to season fish or any meats.... the taste is flavorful 🤤🤤🤤.... it also has a lot of health benefits.... love your vids ..... much luv from Trinidad 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹
excellent
Hey Chris can you boil and use it as tea?
my dad told me thins, but I thought the man was joking yea
Hi chris try cutting off dome off your flowering stalks to help your leaves grow better
thank you
@@caribbeanpot always welcome
Just saw you on your other channel, you forgot what we Puerto Ricans call it, Recao. I just received my seeds in Miami today. You have to cut the seed sprouts so it doesn't go to seed. My friend you let it go to seed, cut those shoots as soon as they come up, if you don't she goes to seed and just keeps seeding and doesn't grow leaves. The plant actually dies in 6 to 7 months after seeding. I guarantee you that you will not get those massive seed gardens if you chop those seed shoots as soon as they come out. If she gets too cold she will go to seed, she doesn't like the cold at all! She hates sun, and she likes to be in moist draining soil. Chris chop those seed shoots of my brotha you will get the leaves not those pointy seed shoots. Respect.
Nuff respect boss. Very good information
The reason shadow beni grows well by river bank is because is because it does best in tropical but cool environments. In trinidad the growers get huge leaves by growing in the cool mountains and riverbanks. It is called bandania and also vietnamese or burmese cilantro.
Very informative video, I’ve never seen it growing. Does it die back in winter in Canada or do you have to plant it again? How did you start your plant? I’ve found it keeps for at least 10 days plus if you wash the leaves, cut the stalk ends off and place them in a glass of water in the fridge. If you put a ziplock bag or plastic bag over the glass of leaves it keeps in the moisture in preventing the leaves from drying out.
Hi Chris l hve Shado beni growing in my kitchen garden.
And l hve grown it from those seeds
Need this plant in my garden.
Cut out those seed heads the minute they sprout over the winter. If you get to Toronto or Mississauga look for West Indian shops. Have you checked Nation Supermarket down town Hamilton? I will ask my granddaughter to check as she shops there. We lived on Hamilton mountain for over 35 years before retiring to cottage country.
Thank you Chris. ;)
Save one or two seed stalks on plant and the rest of the plants continue to cut off seed stalks. The leaves will definitely grow and widen. Be blessed!
I want to try this herb. Haven't seen it in the market, yet. Wonder if the timing is wrong. We can't grow much cilantro in the Spring because it goes to seed. Cilantro is a Fall crop for us. If we can grow it we could do a Tempero, like they do in Brazil with Cilantro.
Garlic cloves, Green Onions, Green Pepper, Salt, and CIlantro. We reduce the salt and freeze it in jars. In Brazil they heavily salt it and leave it on the table, some also use hot peppers of their choice. We take a 1 TBl of it and saute in olive oil and then add I pound of cooked pink or black beans. top with banana, slightly runny fried egg, and tomato. Eat with cooked rice if you like.
thanks for sharing Lewis
nice Chris thanks for sharing
my pleasure
I been trying to grow this in TN and its so hard 😩 Also called Recao
To get more and larger leaves pinch off the flower stem as it comes up.
thanks for the tip. Strange, no one does that to it in the wild and we get massive leaves
@@caribbeanpot True. Also the seeds take a really long time to germinate (a month or more) and you would need to keep the soil moist all the time.
Thanks
Hi do you sell this plant or do you know where I can get it? I live in Ontario
Nice 🌺💮🥰💖💐🌹🏵
Is it part of the “thistle” family?
How do you get it to grow in Canada.
Can I have some seeds please????
Can't get any of that where I live.
In Tobago it is called fitweed
Boy chado beni just isn't used in Dominica and it just grows wild. I'd love to get back home to get some.
serious? I somehow thought it would be used yea. We're so alike on so many things
@@caribbeanpot it's used, but nowhere near the level of use in Trinidad. I guess Dominicans have never really acquired the taste for it. It's a wild plant. I absolutely love it but can't get it to grow well in my small garden in Antigua. Bugs are my biggest challenge
Jamaicans don’t use it like Trinidadians do either…we use thyme a lot in our dishes…the thyme with really small leaves…
I need some seeds, please.
You can put with salt oil and a small spoon of sugar vinegar in fridge
why salt and sugar?
We called, recao,main ingredient, of sofrito.(Puerto Rico).
Yea had it (used in meals) when I was there a few years ago at a friends home
In Mizoram we called it 'BAHKHAWR'
A few years ago I went Trinidad and I got shark and bake and the vendor asked me if I wanted shadon bini and I asked my Trini husband and my brother in law what was it and neither could tell me. I got it on my food and ate and in bout 30 minutes I was throwing up. On cilantro I don't like the taste and my husband is always putting in his green seasoning and it make my belly hurt I try 2 stay away from them both cilantro and culantro.
Hi and thank you for your videos quick question. So where do you buy the Chadon Beni plants since you do not plant from seed?
you do plant from seeds . on AMAZON has it .
I was lucky to find the plants at an Asian Market in Mississauga this past spring
@@dawnerampersad4729 sadly though I've tried, those seeds never germinate. (my luck)
CHris, I live in Oakville. What is the name of the Asian Market?
cut out the flowers and put it in a brown bag ,the seeds will fall out ,then you can sprinkle them early spring ,
U cud put it in a cup of water it will stay fresh for a few days
If you cut the shoots off the leaves will grow
cut the flowers off and put them in partial shade...big leaves