How to Use epazote in a Sentence

epazote

noun
  • Add the epazote leaves, turn the heat to low, then add the black beans.
    — Jessica Yadegaran, The Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2019
  • The fish is flanked with beans that get their warmth from epazote and jalapeño.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Pluck out epazote and bay leaf and transfer beans to a large bowl.
    — Bon Appetit, 10 May 2017
  • Pluck out epazote and bay leaf and transfer beans to a large bowl.
    — Bon Appetit, 19 May 2017
  • Discard the epazote sprig and add the vinegar to the soup.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Add the onion, garlic, and 3 sprigs fresh epazote or cilantro to the beans.
    — Ellie Krieger, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Use epazote by adding it to your pot of beans before bringing it to a boil.
    — Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Add the cumin, epazote or oregano and chili and cook, stirring, for 1 minute.
    — cleveland, 3 July 2020
  • Garnish with epazote, if using, and serve with black beans and tortillas.
    — Kitty Greenwald, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Add the stock, the remaining chipilín leaves, and the epazote.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Pork belly sliced over a lake made green and luscious with epazote, poblano, cilantro and jalapeño is both a looker and a taster.
    — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Add the beans, chipotle, kombu or epazote, cumin, bay leaf, and just enough water to cover, about four to five cups.
    — Outside Online, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Add a few drought-resistant herbs like sage, epazote, and Mexican oregano.
    — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Part of the back patio is now a garden growing epazote, cilantro, chiles and edible flowers.
    — Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 May 2018
  • For something less exotic, try the egg scramble, whipped into a soft yellow cloud flecked with onion, poblano and epazote.
    — Providence Cicero, The Seattle Times, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Swirls of chlorophyll gel and crema circled each bite, and masa chips came mounted on a stand next to the plate, each one embedded with a single epazote leaf.
    — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Most fillings come neatly sealed at the center, like strips of chicken streaked with cilantro-bright salsa verde or jalapeños gently muffled by queso and given a licorice grace note of epazote.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2017
  • There’ll also be seasonal quesadillas with nasturtium and epazote, plus possibly ramps next spring.
    — Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The masa is seasoned with a couple of herbs — epazote, a little like oregano, and acuyo, which also goes by hierba santa or hoja santa, sacred herb or sacred leaf.
    — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The gooey appetizer — molten Mexican cheeses swirled with corn, epazote and earthy huitlacoche — comes swaddled in banana leaves in a hot skillet.
    — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Other options to add to the cilantro include the tender fronds from a bulb of fresh fennel, or a leaf or two of fresh epazote or hoja santa, herbs common in Mexican cooking.
    — Jeanmarie Brownson, chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Green mole uses the chile most Americans are familiar with — fresh jalapeños — along with tomatillos, epazote and Hoja Santa herbs, cilantro and flat-leaf parsley.
    — Michael A. Gardiner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Lobina Chilena comes pan-seared in an epazote beurre blanc with mini heirloom tomatoes dotted with fragrant chimichurri sauce and a garlicky mash of chayote, an edible plant in the gourd family.
    — Jessica Yadegaran, The Mercury News, 6 June 2017
  • Depending on the season, guests could go home with wild greens (field garlic, chickweed); mushrooms (enoki, oyster); berries (red mulberries, Juneberries); or herbs (epazote, purslane).
    — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
  • And so heirloom corn is nixtamalized in-house daily, for tortilla-like Oaxacan memelas, which are slightly fatter and come loaded with wild mushrooms and epazote or chorizo and potatoes.
    — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 4 May 2018
  • At dawn in Xochimilco, home to Mexico City’s famed floating gardens, farmers in muddied rain boots squat among rows of beets as a group of chefs arrive to sample sweet fennel and the pungent herb known as epazote.
    — Lisa Martine Jenkins, The Seattle Times, 11 Aug. 2017
  • Popping up in San Francisco, Galvan uses different varieties of maíz, like chalqueño amarillo and azul, to make concentric circle tortillas, and bi-colored tetelas pressed with epazote leaves.
    — Andrea Aliseda, Bon Appétit, 10 June 2022
  • Now, there are two large Berkeley Bowl locations that have become renowned for their diverse and affordable selections of fresh vegetables and fruit, such as spindly Buddha’s hand, fuzzy red rambutan, aromatic epazote leaves and long burdock roots.
    — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 20 Feb. 2020

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