Vietnamese Name: Thì Là

Common Culinary Name: Dill

Botanical Family & Name : Apiaceae, Anthenum  Graveolens

Vegetative Description: Finely divided, soft delicate, threadlike leaves.

Native Habitat & Ecology: Southwest, Central Asia & Europe

Tasting Note: Tastes like…dill!!

Culinary Uses: Used widely in Northern Vietnam.  It is often used to make a dill fish soup (Canh Chua Thì Là).  Also chopped up and blended with fish to make a round, fried, flat “patty” that is then cut and eaten cold (Chả Cá Thì Là).

Medicinal Uses: Aids indigestion

Propagation: By seed. Annual.

Other Names: Aneth (French), Aneto (Italian), Dill (German)

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