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
• Add the cumin, epazote or oregano and chili and cook, stirring, for 1 minute.
  — cleveland, 3 July 2020
• Pluck out epazote and bay leaf and transfer beans to a large bowl.
  — Bon Appetit, 19 May 2017
• Pluck out epazote and bay leaf and transfer beans to a large bowl.
  — Bon Appetit, 10 May 2017
• 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
• Garnish with epazote, if using, and serve with black beans and tortillas.
  — Kitty Greenwald, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2021
• 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
• Add a few drought-resistant herbs like sage, epazote, and Mexican oregano.
  — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 16 Mar. 2020
• 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
• In nearly 200 recipes, Ms. Kennedy took readers on a tour through one of the world’s most diverse cuisines, looking into the mysteries of masa, mole, nopal cactus and the pungent herb epazote.
  — William Grimes, New York Times, 24 July 2022
• Another standout at Cha Cha’s is the open-faced short rib enchiladas (which are guajillo-braised and come with goat cheese, fresh radish and epazote black beans).
  — Daily Pilot, 17 Oct. 2019
• Villalobos: Onions, serranos, cilantro, tomatillos, and epazote, which is a green herb.
  — David Sharos, Naperville Sun, 25 May 2018
• Crispy corn tortilla quesadillas are filled with stewed chicken tinga (shreds) or mushrooms and the pungent herb epazote.
  — Linda Bladholm, miamiherald, 17 May 2017
• 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
• 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
• Creamy gigante beans huddle like tranquil hippopotami in a murky, epazote-laced braising liquid with tender pieces of chayote squash, a poached egg and kale.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 June 2021
• But the feminist enterprise — housed in a converted machine shop by the water, with gnarled pear trees and epazote growing wild out back — is no museum.
  — Tejal Rao, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Esquites is similar in spirit but easier to eat: The kernels are shaved from the cob, cooked in chicken broth with herbaceous epazote, ladled into a plastic cup, and topped with mayo, queso, and chili.
  — Ashlea Halpern, CNT, 4 Oct. 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
• 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
• Go for poached eggs made aromatic with the Mexican epazote leaf but stay for the bread basket featuring Panadería Rosetta’s finest: chocolate-vanilla conchas and guava rolls stuffed with creamy ricotta.
  — Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 3 July 2019
• 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
• Some customer favorites include the wild mushroom carnitas with salsa verde, guacamole, chili, and shaved radish, and cremini mushroom and caramelized onion quesadilla with epazote, spicy cashew cheese, pico de gallo, and salsa verde.
  — Juliet Pennington, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2019
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024