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Haddock + Dill

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 19 recipes, and they share 42 flavor molecules: the top 22% of all ingredient pairs. We hold little distinguishing chemistry for one of them, so the recipe count carries this verdict.

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Cooked together19 recipes
Ranktop 22% of pairs
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42shared 300dill only Haddock · 42 Dill · 342
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.
Thin evidence for this pair. We hold no distinguishing chemistry for haddock: every compound on it appears in more than 10% of ingredients, so this score is computed over the background every food shares. Distinguishing molecules on record: Haddock 0, Dill 96 (the typical ingredient has 12).

Do haddock and dill go together?

Yes. 19 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 42 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 22% of every ingredient pair we score.

Read this with the evidence note above in mind.

Why they work

Almost everything haddock carries, dill has too: 42 of haddock's 42 flavor molecules also occur in dill. Among the shared key aromas are ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal) and decanoic acid (soapy, waxy). Most of what they share is background chemistry many foods carry, so the overlap does little for the smell.

What each one brings

haddock

The tartness. Sour notes make up 38% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 15% for dill. Every molecule it carries is also in dill.

dill

The herbal side. Herbal notes make up 14% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 0% for haddock. It carries 300 molecules haddock doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Atlantic halibut: the best fit for both, top 1% of pairs with haddock, top 22% with dill.
  • Sauce: top 1% of pairs with haddock, top 28% with dill.
  • Whitefish: top 1% of pairs with haddock, top 29% with dill.
  • Pacific jack mackerel: top 1% of pairs with haddock, top 21% with dill.

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

Recipes with haddock and dill

Almost always mains: 2 of the 2 recipes with a course label are mains.

Fish Pyramid with Green SaucePotato Soup II

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Can you swap one for the other?

Only partly. Almost all of haddock's flavor molecules (42 of 42) are also found in dill, but dill has 300 that haddock lacks. Haddock gives you part of dill's character without most of its herbal side. This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 42 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 0 only in haddock and the 300 only in dill.

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Haddock and dill questions

Do haddock and dill go together?

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 19 recipes, and they share 42 flavor molecules: the top 22% of all ingredient pairs. We hold little distinguishing chemistry for one of them, so the recipe count carries this verdict.

Why do haddock and dill taste good together?

Almost everything haddock carries, dill has too: 42 of haddock's 42 flavor molecules also occur in dill. Among the shared key aromas are ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal) and decanoic acid (soapy, waxy). Most of what they share is background chemistry many foods carry, so the overlap does little for the smell.

What goes with haddock and dill?

Atlantic halibut is the best third ingredient: top 1% of pairs with haddock and top 22% with dill. Sauce and whitefish also fit both.

What can you make with haddock and dill?

Almost always mains: 2 of the 2 recipes with a course label are mains. Common dishes include Fish Pyramid with Green Sauce, Potato Soup II.

Can I use dill instead of haddock?

Only partly. Almost all of haddock's flavor molecules (42 of 42) are also found in dill, but dill has 300 that haddock lacks. Haddock gives you part of dill's character without most of its herbal side. 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: Haddock vs Dill. https://compkitchen.com/compare/haddock-vs-dill. Accessed 2026-11-04.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_haddock_vs_dill_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Haddock vs Dill},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/haddock-vs-dill},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}
}

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