Kitchen Dictionary: dill

A green herb with feathery leaves, called dill weed. The flat tan dill seed is actually the dried fruit of the herb.

Ingredient

Season: available year-round

How to prepare: The flavor is destroyed in heating so add at the end of cooking. Often used in pickles and flavoring fish.

Matches well with: beets, breads, cabbage, carrots, chicken cucumbers, cream sauces, eggs, fish, pickles, potatoes, salmon, scallops, seafood, sour cream, tomatoes, veal

Substitutions: 1 tbsp dill seed = 3 heads fresh or dried dillweed