Organic Dill Weed

Smith & Truslow Organic Dill Weed is USDA certified organic and third-party tested for heavy metals — delivering the fresh, feathery, anise-tinged, grassy herb flavor that makes dill one of the most distinctive, beloved, and culinarily essential herbs in Scandinavian, Eastern European, Middle Eastern, and American cooking.

Our organic dill weed is made from the delicate feathery leaves of certified organic dill plants with vibrant green color, essential oils, and the clean, bright, slightly sweet anise character that makes great dried dill weed so much more flavorful and alive than the faded, dusty dill that most home cooks have experienced from a grocery store jar. Whether you're seasoning a classic cucumber dill salad, building a creamy dill sauce for salmon, flavoring a classic dill pickle brine, finishing a bowl of borscht, seasoning a Scandinavian gravlax, building a tzatziki, creating a dill-infused compound butter, or simply adding the fresh, clean herb character that makes a finished dish taste like summer, Smith & Truslow organic dill weed delivers a freshness, color, and aromatic intensity that dried grocery store dill weed simply cannot match.

Dill Weed vs Dill Seed — What's the Difference and When to Use Each

Dill weed and dill seed are two very different products that come from the same plant — and understanding the difference between them is essential for any cook who wants to use dill effectively and authentically. Dill weed refers to the delicate, feathery leaves of the dill plant — delivering a fresh, bright, slightly sweet and grassy herb flavor that is the characteristic taste of fresh dill, cucumber salads, and creamy dill sauces. Dill seed refers to the dried seeds of the dill plant — delivering a more intense, slightly bitter, more aggressively anise-like flavor that is the defining character of dill pickle brines, Scandinavian rye breads, and Eastern European spice blends. The two are not interchangeable — substituting one for the other produces a dramatically different flavor result. Dill weed is the right choice for finished dishes, sauces, dressings, and preparations where fresh dill character is the goal. Dill seed is the right choice for brines, pickles, breads, and long-cooked preparations where the more intense seed flavor is appropriate and desirable. For most everyday cooking applications — salads, sauces, fish dishes, and dips — dill weed is the more versatile and widely applicable choice.

Dill Around the World — A Herb With Global Reach

Despite its strong association with Eastern European and Scandinavian cooking in the American culinary imagination, dill is a genuinely global herb with deep roots in culinary traditions that span from Scandinavia to the Middle East to Central Asia to the American South. In Scandinavia, dill is perhaps the single most important culinary herb — essential to gravlax, smoked salmon preparations, new potato salads, and the clean, fresh flavor profile that defines Nordic cooking. In Eastern Europe — Russia, Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltic states — dill is ubiquitous, appearing in borscht, pierogi, cucumber salads, sour cream sauces, and countless everyday dishes as reliably as parsley appears in Western European cooking. In Middle Eastern and Persian cooking, dill is fundamental to rice dishes — particularly the Persian dill and fava bean rice called baghali polo — and appears in yogurt dips, herb frittatas, and fresh herb salads. In American cooking, dill is the defining herb of the dill pickle, a key ingredient in ranch dressing, and the classic pairing for salmon in all its preparations. Understanding dill as a global herb rather than a niche Eastern European specialty opens up its full culinary potential to any cook willing to explore it.

Why Our Organic Dill Weed Is Different

Most conventional dried dill weed is grown with synthetic pesticides, irradiated to extend shelf life, and dried at high temperatures that strip its essential oils and leave it a faded, yellowish-green powder with little of the fresh, bright herb character that makes great dried dill so effective. Some cheaper brands blend dried dill weed with stems, seeds, and low-quality plant material to increase volume at the expense of the clean, feathery-leaf-only flavor that makes premium dried dill so aromatic. Not ours. Every lot of Smith & Truslow organic dill weed is made from 100% certified organic dill leaves with nothing added — no fillers, no stems, no anticaking agents, no irradiation — and tested by an accredited third-party lab against heavy metal specifications more stringent than industry standards. Pure dill leaves. Vibrant color. Nothing hidden.

How to Use Organic Dill Weed

• Season classic cucumber dill salad, creamy cucumber dishes, and cold salads
• Build creamy dill sauce for salmon, trout, and grilled or baked fish
• Season Scandinavian gravlax, smoked salmon, and cured fish preparations
• Flavor classic dill pickle brines — add dill weed alongside dill seed for layered flavor
• Build tzatziki, cucumber yogurt dip, and Greek-inspired sauces
• Season borscht, Eastern European soups, and sour cream-based dishes
• Add to Persian dill rice, baghali polo, and Middle Eastern grain dishes
• Build into ranch dressing, green goddess dressing, and herb aioli
• Season potato salad, new potato dishes, and creamy potato soups
• Add to egg salad, deviled eggs, and egg-based dishes
• Season roasted salmon, baked cod, and grilled shrimp
• Blend into compound butter for finishing fish and vegetables
• Add to cottage cheese, sour cream dips, and cream cheese spreads
• Season roasted carrots, beets, and root vegetables with a Scandinavian flair
• Finish soups, stews, and braised dishes with a bright herb note before serving

Certifications & Testing

• Certified organic by the Colorado Department of Agriculture (USDA NOP)
• Certified gluten-free by the Gluten Intolerance Group (GIG) — less than 10ppm
• Certified kosher by Earth Kosher
• Third-party tested for heavy metals: lead, mercury, arsenic, and cadmium
• No fillers, no anticaking agents, no irradiation
• Non-irradiated — steam sterilized only

Available in a 1.7 oz jar (by volume) and refill bag. Free shipping on orders over $85.

Also try our Organic Parsley and Organic Thyme — or browse our full line of USDA certified organic herbs

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Below are the test results for the organic dill weed lots that we currently have in stock.

View Test Results for Organic Dill Weed Lot 675O

View Test Results for Organic Dill Weed Lot 015B

Organic Dill Weed Spec Sheet