# What to do with frozen green chiles?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-frozen-green-chiles/682966>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 5, 2014, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-frozen-green-chiles/682966 "2014-03-05T21:57:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-frozen-green-chiles/682966/21 "2014-03-08T04:20:31Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> Australians just call it coriander? In the U.S., at least, coriander is the seed while cilantro is the leaves. They taste very different.

Pretty much all the non-North American English speaking world calls the green part “coriander” and the seed “coriander seed.”

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**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-frozen-green-chiles/682966/22 "2014-03-08T05:13:27Z")

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Well, the chile verde was a winner, very yummy. Might have to add it to the regular rotation. Thanks all!

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**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-frozen-green-chiles/682966/23 "2014-03-09T18:56:21Z")

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Just curious on how close you stayed to the recipe. It is pretty forgiving but I think it’s best when the chile is by far the main ingredient, and not just an ingredient.

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**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-frozen-green-chiles/682966/24 "2014-03-10T01:05:42Z")

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I am not a particularly diligent recipe follower 🙂 I read a couple of chile verde recipes, including the one on the back of the packet of frozen chiles, and as per your suggestion, only used a half a dozen tomatillos, coz they’re out of season and didn’t look very appetizing in the supermarket. I used both raw and roasted garlic - that’s just how I roll. I think I’ll cut the pork a bit smaller in the future, my 2x2in chunks are a bit difficult to handle in a small tortilla.

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