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Cilantro Recipes

55 recipes with cilantro for weeknights, meal prep, and quick ingredient searches. Choose by time, cuisine, and what is in your kitchen.

55 recipes

Thai Spicy Beef Salad with beef, lime and mint — Thailand recipe

🇹🇭ThailandMedium

Salads

Thai Spicy Beef Salad

Thai spicy beef salad, yam nuea (ยำเนื้อ) in Thai, is thin slices of seared steak tossed while still warm with red onion, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, mint and cilantro in a lime, fish sauce and chili dressing. You sear the beef, rest it, slice it and dress it in about half an hour. Serve it on lettuce leaves or with jasmine rice.

30 min210 kcal2 serves

🌶️Spicy⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

Bang-Bang Chicken Salad with chicken, cucumber and peanut butter — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Salads

Bang-Bang Chicken Salad

A popular Chinese-inspired salad of shredded poached chicken with cucumber and green onion, dressed in a creamy, sweet-spicy bang-bang peanut sauce. Silky chicken, crunchy vegetables, and a bold sauce — simple to make and impossible to stop eating.

30 min240 kcal2 serves

🌶️Spicy⚡Quick🥑Keto

Dal — Spiced Indian Lentil Soup with lentils, onion and garlic — India recipe

🇮🇳IndiaMedium

Soups

Dal — Spiced Indian Lentil Soup

A warming Indian red lentil soup tempered with cumin, turmeric, coriander, and ginger — finished with a sizzling spiced ghee pour. One of the most comforting and nourishing dishes in Indian home cooking. Serve with warm chapati or basmati rice.

30 min190 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free

Curry Laksa with chicken, coconut milk and rice noodles — Malaysia recipe

🇲🇾MalaysiaMedium

Soups

Curry Laksa

Curry laksa is a Malaysian-Singaporean noodle soup: rice noodles sitting in a spiced coconut curry broth, topped with chicken or shrimp, bean sprouts, and a halved boiled egg. The coconut milk gives the broth a rounded sweetness, the curry paste brings heat and color, and a squeeze of lime at the table cuts through the richness. Malaysia and Singapore each have dozens of regional versions, from mild to fiery.

40 min900 kcal2 serves

🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Pho Bo (Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup) with beef, rice noodles and ginger — Vietnam recipe

🇻🇳VietnamAdvanced

Soups

Pho Bo (Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup)

Pho bo is a Vietnamese noodle soup from Hanoi built around a clear, richly spiced beef broth — bones and spices simmer for hours with charred onion and ginger, while the bowl itself is finished with rice noodles, thin beef, fresh herbs, lime, and chili. Both cooked and raw beef go into the bowl: a well-done cut simmered in the broth, and paper-thin raw slices that cook the instant boiling broth is poured over them.

210 min520 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Singapore Chili Crab with crab, chili and garlic — Singapore recipe

🇸🇬SingaporeAdvanced

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Singapore Chili Crab

Singapore's national dish — whole crab braised in a glossy sweet-spicy tomato-chili sauce with garlic, ginger, and egg ribbons. Created in 1950s Singapore and eaten with your hands, mopping up every drop of sauce with warm mantou buns.

45 min500 kcal1 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Massaman Curry with beef, potato and peanuts — Thailand recipe

🇹🇭ThailandMedium

Meat Dishes

Massaman Curry

Thailand’s mildest and most complex curry — slow-braised beef with potato and roasted peanuts in a rich coconut milk sauce spiced with cinnamon, cardamom, and cumin. Voted the world’s best dish by CNN Travel in 2011. Not spicy — deep, sweet, and profoundly satisfying.

50 min380 kcal2 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy💪High protein

Chana Masala with chickpeas, tomato and onion — India recipe

🇮🇳IndiaMedium

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Chana Masala

A Punjabi street food staple that became an all-India classic — chickpeas simmered in a thick spiced tomato-onion sauce with cumin, coriander, garam masala, and a squeeze of lime. Vegetarian, cheap, deeply satisfying. Eaten for breakfast with puri, for lunch with rice, and as a street snack.

35 min290 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌶️Spicy💪High protein

Carne Asada with flank steak, lime and garlic — Mexico recipe

🇲🇽MexicoMedium

Meat Dishes

Carne Asada

Flank steak marinated in fresh lime, orange, garlic and cilantro, then grilled on screaming-hot metal until charred outside and pink inside. The entire flavor lives in the marinade and the char — both take minutes, not hours.

30 min310 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick🥑Keto

Pollo Guisado with chicken, onion and garlic — Dominican Republic recipe

🇩🇴Dominican RepublicMedium

Meat Dishes

Pollo Guisado

Bone-in chicken thighs browned until dark, then braised in a tomato-based sauce with onion, peppers, garlic and herbs. A one-pot Latin American weeknight staple — the sauce soaks into white rice and makes the whole plate.

60 min380 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🥑Keto🌾Gluten-free

Ground Turkey Taco Bowls with turkey, rice and black beans — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Ground Turkey Taco Bowls

Lean ground turkey seasoned with homemade taco spices, served over cilantro-lime rice with black beans, corn, salsa and avocado. Around 40g of protein per bowl — the standard for high-protein meal prep that actually tastes like dinner.

30 min420 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Chicken Burrito Bowls with chicken, rice and black beans — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Chicken Burrito Bowls

A burrito bowl is the filling of a burrito served without the tortilla: everything goes into a bowl in layers instead of being rolled. This one starts with chicken breast rubbed in chilli powder, cumin and smoked paprika, sits on cilantro-lime rice, and is finished with black beans, corn, pico de gallo and avocado. Chicken and beans together push protein above 45 g a serving, and the whole thing takes 35 minutes.

35 min520 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

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