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Nutmeg + Dill

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 50 recipes, and they share 257 flavor molecules: the top 8% of all ingredient pairs.

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Cooked together50 recipes
Ranktop 8% of pairs
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44nutmeg only 257shared 85dill only Nutmeg · 301 Dill · 342
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do nutmeg and dill go together?

Yes. 50 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 257 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 8% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

Almost everything nutmeg carries, dill has too: 257 of nutmeg's 301 flavor molecules also occur in dill. Among the shared key aromas are myristicin (spice, warm) and estragole (anise, licorice).

What each one brings

nutmeg

Much the same character. It carries 44 molecules dill doesn't have.

dill

Much the same character. It carries 85 molecules nutmeg doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Fennel: the best fit for both, top 3% of pairs with nutmeg, top 1% with dill.
  • Cinnamon: top 1% of pairs with nutmeg, top 8% with dill.
  • Allspice: top 1% of pairs with nutmeg, top 5% with dill.
  • Parsley: top 3% of pairs with nutmeg, top 1% with dill.

Ranked by the average of its two pairing scores. Only foods used in at least 100 recipes are suggested.

Recipes with nutmeg and dill

Almost always mains: 6 of the 6 recipes with a course label are mains.

Dilled Garbanzo FondueGefilte Fish IGerman Style SpätzleRahmschnitzelSpanakopitaSwedish Meatballs II

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Can you swap one for the other?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (85% of nutmeg's and 75% of dill's are shared). This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 257 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 44 only in nutmeg and the 85 only in dill.

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Nutmeg and dill questions

Do nutmeg and dill go together?

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 50 recipes, and they share 257 flavor molecules: the top 8% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do nutmeg and dill taste good together?

Almost everything nutmeg carries, dill has too: 257 of nutmeg's 301 flavor molecules also occur in dill. Among the shared key aromas are myristicin (spice, warm) and estragole (anise, licorice).

What goes with nutmeg and dill?

Fennel is the best third ingredient: top 3% of pairs with nutmeg and top 1% with dill. Cinnamon and allspice also fit both.

What can you make with nutmeg and dill?

Almost always mains: 6 of the 6 recipes with a course label are mains. Common dishes include Dilled Garbanzo Fondue, Gefilte Fish I, German Style Spätzle, Rahmschnitzel.

Can I use dill instead of nutmeg?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (85% of nutmeg's and 75% of dill's are shared). This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

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Two ingredients gives the full side-by-side breakdown; add a third to see a similarity matrix across all of them (up to 6).

Ranks compare this pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. Molecule counts are what the studies and databases we aggregate have reported for each ingredient: a measure of coverage, not a full census. How we score pairs

Cite this analysis
Plain text
Compound Kitchen (2026). Compound similarity analysis: Nutmeg vs Dill. https://compkitchen.com/compare/nutmeg-vs-dill. Accessed 2026-11-04.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_nutmeg_vs_dill_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Nutmeg vs Dill},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/nutmeg-vs-dill},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}
}

Methodology DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19719459 · CC BY 4.0 · Citations are a request, not a requirement.