Description

Whether I am making potato salad or Hungarian Mushroom Soup, it’s a big dill? In the US we consume an average of 9 lbs of pickles per person, per year. It is here where we are likely most familiar with dill weed – it is the “dill” in the dill pickle.

While part of the same plant dill weed and dill seed are vastly different. Dill weed, also known as dill herb or leaf dill, refers to the stem and leaf of the plant while dill seed is the fruit of the plant. Dill seeds are most often thought of as a spice while dill weed is considered an herb. The seeds have a much more powerful flavor.

Though uniquely it’s own, if you have to describe dill flavor; anise, celery, and parsley with a lemon anise aroma come to mind.

It is best to add dill weed toward the end of the cooking process and use it in recipes that require little or no cooking. The flavor of dill cannot withstand a normal cooking process. For example I add it last in my Hungarian Mushroom Soup. For this reason, dill weed is usually used in fast-cooking sauces, dressings and salads.

Comes in a half cup jar (1 oz)