chandon beni
English
Alternative forms
- chadon beni
- shadon beni
- shadow beni
- shandon beni
Etymology
French chardon béni (“blessed thistle”).
Noun
chandon beni (uncountable)
- (Caribbean) culantro (Eryngium foetidum)
- 1997, Caricomview: A Monthly Newsletter of the Caricom Secretariat, page 8:
- The people of Trinidad and Tobago also love their shark and bake which they spide with a sauce made from chadon beni (one of the most versatile herbs that is used to spice meats or make a flavoured pepper sauce).
- 1999, Caribbean Islands Handbook 2000, page 970:
- If you go to Maracas Bay, have shark-and-bake, a spicy fried bread sandwich of fried shark with a variety of sauces such as tamarind, garlic, chadon beni.
- 2009, Monique Roffey, The White Woman on the Green Bicycle:
- The air was spiced with chadon beni and wild thyme, his favourite perfume.
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