Unless you're cooking for a crowd, one bunch of cilantro may be more than you need for one recipe. Learn how to store it and keep it fresh for weeks.

Most herbs benefit from regular pruning and harvesting, but when you grow cilantro, pruning is essential. Learn how to prune for a bumper crop every year.

Crunchy texture: Cilantro stems have crunchy yet tender texture, making them perfect to blend into marinades, salad dressings or pestos. You can also chop the stems with the leaves until they ...

How to Propagate Cilantro in Water Separate the cilantro bunch and sort out any weak stems (use those for cooking).

Nutrition: Cilantro offers a lot of taste with minimal calories and no fat; 1/4 cup (4 tablespoons chopped) fresh cilantro leaves contain only 1 calorie. The leaves are considered high in vitamins ...

Make Chipotle-Style Rice With Cilantro Stems When it comes to cilantro, the leaves get most of the attention, but smart cilantro eaters know to hoard the stems.

Buying and storing. You can find fresh cilantro in your produce department, often right next to its near look-alike, flat-leaf parsley. Cilantro should be bright green, and the stems should be firm.

There’s nothing like having to pick through a bunch of cilantro, pulling the leaves from the stem as some sort of exercise in the limits of human patience. I’m here to rescue from your turmoil.

How to Prune Cilantro Without Killing the Plant Cilantro stems grow from a central rosette, which becomes fuller and bushier with consistent pruning.