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Cardamom + Dill

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 13 recipes, and they share 241 flavor molecules: the top 7% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikestrong
Cooked together13 recipes
Ranktop 7% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Cardamom Dill
62cardamom only 241shared 101dill only Cardamom · 303 Dill · 342
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do cardamom and dill go together?

Yes. 13 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 241 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 7% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

More than half of cardamom's flavor molecules (241 of 303) also occur in dill. Among the shared key aromas are beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene) and eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

What each one brings

cardamom

The floral side. Floral notes make up 15% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 12% for dill. It carries 62 molecules dill doesn't have.

dill

The spice. Spicy notes make up 5% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 3% for cardamom. It carries 101 molecules cardamom doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Fennel: the best fit for both, top 1% of pairs with cardamom, top 1% with dill.
  • Saffron: top 1% of pairs with cardamom, top 5% with dill.
  • Lemon: top 1% of pairs with cardamom, top 1% with dill.
  • Coriander: top 1% of pairs with cardamom, top 2% with dill.

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

Recipes with cardamom and dill

We have no browsable recipe that lists both cardamom and dill.

Can you swap one for the other?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (80% of cardamom's and 70% of dill's are shared). This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 241 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 62 only in cardamom and the 101 only in dill.

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Cardamom and dill questions

Do cardamom and dill go together?

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 13 recipes, and they share 241 flavor molecules: the top 7% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do cardamom and dill taste good together?

More than half of cardamom's flavor molecules (241 of 303) also occur in dill. Among the shared key aromas are beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene) and eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

What goes with cardamom and dill?

Fennel is the best third ingredient: top 1% of pairs with cardamom and top 1% with dill. Saffron and lemon also fit both.

Can I use dill instead of cardamom?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (80% of cardamom's and 70% of dill's are shared). This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

Compare other ingredients

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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: Cardamom vs Dill. https://compkitchen.com/compare/cardamom-vs-dill. Accessed 2026-11-04.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_cardamom_vs_dill_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Cardamom vs Dill},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/cardamom-vs-dill},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}
}

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