I have never bought or used it before, but this was the only thing in the produce section that resembled it. It was called something completely different at the store though, so I’m confused!
by SentFrom13
Mexican Food
9 Comments
No, it’s not.
This is how epazote leaves look like
[https://www.gob.mx/cms/uploads/article/main_image/18127/Epazote.jpg](https://www.gob.mx/cms/uploads/article/main_image/18127/Epazote.jpg)
Doesn’t look like it. The leaves are a bit too wide and not as sturdy looking.
Do you know what it was called at the store?
Looks like quelite
Maaaaaaybe this
Chenopodium album is a fast-growing annual plant in the genus Chenopodium. Though cultivated in some regions. Common names include lamb’s quarters, melde, goosefoot, wild spinach and fat-hen, though the latter two are also applied to other species of the genus Chenopodium, for which reason it is often distinguished as white goosefoot. Chenopodium album is extensively cultivated and consumed in Northern India as a food crop known as bathua.
Or something related to amaranth. Where’d you find it?
No that’s lambs quarters
Chenopodium album
no
cilantro
No. You can easily identify it by its smell
No
In Mexico this is a Quelite usually called “Cenizo” (ashy) because of the white powder is creates to protect itself from the sun the powder should be slightly salty, this one is Chenopodium album, (There are other Quelites that are called Cenizo though, Sage is another fairly common one), you can cook this or use it in a salad, doesnt have many aromatic purpose think of it as a green rather than a spice