How to Use Dill
Dill can annoint your garden with elegant foliage, delicate flowers and a delightful scent. It also has culinary and medicinal applications. Of course, dill is commonly known as a pickling spice, but it can be just as useful in other ways. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Make a dill infusion. Steep a teaspoon of dill seeds in a half-cup of boiling water for 10 minutes. Use a fine strainer if you dislike seeds floating in the infusion. Sweeten with honey to taste.
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Drink the dill infusion to calm your stomach and stimulate your appetite. Expectant and new mothers can use a dill infusion once daily to increase mother's milk. You can also use it to relieve colic.
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Use the foliage of dill to add a tangy flavor to uncooked dishes. Grind the seeds or use them whole in cooked dishes. Dill seeds have a similar, but stronger flavor than the foliage of the plant. The seeds are, therefore, best in cooked dishes. Add them at the start of cooking for a strong dill flavor.
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Season white meats, such as pork, poultry and fish, with dill. Yogurt or mayonnaise seasoned with dill and Dijon mustard make a good seasoning for fish. It also complements some vegetables such as onions, cauliflower, spinach, cucumbers and carrots.
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Tips & Warnings
Use scissors to mince dill to retain the flavor. A knife squeezes out more juices.
Store dill foliage in the freezer rather than drying. When freezing dill, freeze the foliage (stem and all) and cut off pieces as you need them from the stem. This way, the rest of the stem can be placed back in the freezer.
Use ground dill seeds as a substitute for salt.
