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Sage + Dill

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 18 recipes, and they share 245 flavor molecules: the top 7% of all ingredient pairs.

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Cooked together18 recipes
Ranktop 7% of pairs
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66sage only 245shared 97dill only Sage · 311 Dill · 342
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do sage and dill go together?

Yes. 18 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 245 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 7% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

More than half of sage's flavor molecules (245 of 311) also occur in dill. Among the shared key aromas are beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene) and eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

What each one brings

sage

The floral side. Floral notes make up 15% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 12% for dill. It carries 66 molecules dill doesn't have.

dill

The fresh, green side. Green notes make up 9% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 8% for sage. It carries 97 molecules sage doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Marjoram: the best fit for both, top 1% of pairs with sage, top 3% with dill.
  • Thyme: top 1% of pairs with sage, top 2% with dill.
  • Rosemary: top 1% of pairs with sage, top 3% with dill.
  • Fennel: top 3% of pairs with sage, 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 sage and dill

Almost always mains: 1 of the 1 recipes with a course label are mains.

Baked Lamb Shanks

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Can you swap one for the other?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (79% of sage's and 72% of dill's are shared). This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 245 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 66 only in sage and the 97 only in dill.

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Sage and dill questions

Do sage and dill go together?

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 18 recipes, and they share 245 flavor molecules: the top 7% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do sage and dill taste good together?

More than half of sage's flavor molecules (245 of 311) also occur in dill. Among the shared key aromas are beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene) and eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

What goes with sage and dill?

Marjoram is the best third ingredient: top 1% of pairs with sage and top 3% with dill. Thyme and rosemary also fit both.

What can you make with sage and dill?

Almost always mains: 1 of the 1 recipes with a course label are mains. Common dishes include Baked Lamb Shanks.

Can I use dill instead of sage?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (79% of sage's and 72% 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: Sage vs Dill. https://compkitchen.com/compare/sage-vs-dill. Accessed 2026-11-05.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_sage_vs_dill_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Sage vs Dill},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/sage-vs-dill},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-05}
}

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