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If you can find fresh dill I'm sure that would work ( or even dried)!
I'm surprised you can't find dill seed, it's a very common spice, and I'm not sure if there's something more common that you could use instead.
Basically you're making Gravlax with your fresh salmon, correct? The spice is not essential to the fish being edible after curing, so you could just leave it out entirely.
You could use fresh dill instead (this is traditional, dill seeds are the substitute for when you don't have fresh). Or caraway or celery seed, but both will give you a very different flavor.
Thank you. I too thought dill seed was common but it (unlike dill weed) is not - at least not in my local Publix, Whole Foods, and Fresh Market - no time to leave the office to try other places as I have to get the cure going tonite. I like your substitution ideas, however, and I am thinking of using a combination of fennel seed and a tiny bit of dried dill (weed).
Dill and Fennel are in the same family. In fact, you should never plant them near one another in a garden or they will cross pollinate. Thus, fennel seed makes a perfect substitute for dill seed.