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Fresh cilantro Recipes

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

36 recipes

🇸🇬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

🇹🇭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

🇮🇳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

🇺🇸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

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Chicken Burrito Bowls

Chipotle-spiced chicken breast over cilantro-lime rice with black beans, corn, pico de gallo and avocado. Combines chicken and beans to push protein above 45g per serving — better than Chipotle and ready in 35 minutes.

35 min520 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

🇺🇸USAMedium

Salads

Chickpea Spinach Skillet

Chickpeas sautéed with onion, garlic, tomatoes and cumin, with spinach stirred in at the end. Done in 25 minutes in one pan. About 11g of fiber per serving. Good over rice, with eggs poached on top, or with flatbread.

25 min340 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

🇲🇽MexicoAdvanced

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Black Bean Tacos

Canned black beans cooked down with cumin, smoked paprika, garlic, and lime until thick and slightly smoky. Served in warm corn tortillas with avocado, pickled red onion, and sour cream. From tin to table in 15 minutes.

20 min310 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Roasted Sweet Potato Black Bean Bowls

Cubed sweet potatoes roasted at high heat until the edges caramelize, served over cilantro-lime rice with spiced black beans, avocado, and a quick chili-lime crema. About 14g of fiber and 16g of protein per bowl. Good warm, good cold, holds four days in the fridge — one of the few meal-prep recipes that actually tastes better by day three.

45 min490 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Tex-Mex Cottage Cheese Bowl

Taco-seasoned ground beef or turkey, roasted sweet potato, black beans, cottage cheese, avocado, salsa, and hot honey. The black beans are not decoration — they add serious fiber and protein while absorbing the taco-spiced meat juices. This bowl keeps you full longer than most.

35 min520 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

🇲🇽MexicoMedium

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Jackfruit Tacos

Canned young green jackfruit pulled apart, spiced with cumin, smoked paprika, chipotle, and oregano, then seared in a hot pan until the edges brown and the filling gets sticky. Served in warm corn tortillas with avocado crema, quick-pickled red onions, cilantro, and lime. Jackfruit works here because of its fibrous texture — shredded, it genuinely resembles pulled pork or chicken, and it absorbs whatever flavor you cook it with. The key is buying the right can: young green jackfruit in brine or water, not the ripe sweet fruit packed in syrup. Everything else follows from that.

30 min390 kcal4 serves

🌱Vegan🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

🇲🇦MoroccoMedium

Sauces and Dips

Chermoula

Chermoula is Morocco's answer to chimichurri — a herb sauce built on cilantro and parsley, sharpened with lemon, warmed by cumin and paprika, cut through with raw garlic. It's used three ways in Moroccan cooking: as a marinade before cooking, a sauce spooned over at the end, and a condiment on the side. The fish version, where whole fish are stuffed and grilled with chermoula, is the most famous application. But it works equally well on chicken thighs, roasted cauliflower, fried eggs, grilled bread, or anything else that could use a hit of brightness. Make it in a food processor for speed, or by hand with a knife if you want more texture.

10 min140 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free

🇲🇦MoroccoAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Chicken Tagine with Chermoula

Chermoula is a Moroccan marinade — raw herbs, garlic, cumin, lemon, oil — and it does more work here than the tagine itself. The chicken sits in it overnight if you have time, or two hours if you don't. Either way, something changes in the meat. Then it goes into the pot with preserved lemon, olives, and onion, and cooks low and slow until it falls off the bone. No tagine pot required. A wide, heavy pan with a lid does the same job.

90 min455 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein🌶️Spicy

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