tahini

Tahini or tahina is a condiment made from toasted ground hulled sesame. It is served by itself (as a dip) or as a major ingredient in hummus, baba ghanoush, and halva.
Tahini is used in the cuisines of the Eastern Mediterranean, the South Caucasus, and the Middle East, as well as parts of North Africa. It is also used in Chinese and Southeast Asian cuisine.Plain, unprocessed sesame paste with no added ingredients is sometimes known as raw tahini.

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  1. Burt Blank

    Recipe Tahinove Hatz - my cheats version of Armenian tahini bread

    I make a batch of pizza dough roll or pull it out to about half the thickness needed for pizza. Smear the Tahini over the dough, roll like a swiss roll. Shape it like a coiled rope and bake. Purist Armenian cooks would brand me as a heretic if they read this. After you have smeared let your...
  2. Morning Glory

    The CookingBites Recipe Challenge: Tahini

    Welcome to the CookingBites Recipe Challenge. The current challenge ingredient is tahini and ElizabethB is our judge. To enter, all you need to do is post a recipe containing tahini as a new thread, tag it cookingbites recipe challenge and post a link to it in this thread. The winner becomes the...
  3. SatNavSaysStraightOn

    Recipe Tahin Pekmez

    This hardly warrants a recipe, but for completeness I've added one. Ingredients 2-3 tbsp tahini (hulled or unhulled work equally well) 1-3 tbsp grape molasses (traditionally grape molasses is used but any other molasses could be used provided it is sweet, so not pomegranate molasses)...
  4. SatNavSaysStraightOn

    Recipe Baba Ganoush

    We used to have a gas cooker (rings and oven) which made this slightly easier, but now only have electric. There are still ways around the issues for charring the aubergines, you just have to get creative. You can use a blow torch, you can use a barbeque, you can use a camping stove, or you...
  5. SatNavSaysStraightOn

    Recipe Homemade Tahini

    With experimentation, I have established that if you are after a really smooth tahini, you need to be using white sesame seeds. Unhulled, brown sesame seeds will give you a slightly grainer, more bitter tahini as will black sesame seeds (obviously these will give you a black tahini). So bare...
  6. The Late Night Gourmet

    Recipe Sesame Meatball with Jicama Shoestring Fries and Tahini Lemon Sauce

    I decided to make this a riff on a birds egg in a nest, and I almost called it something like "Sesame Egg in a Nest", but there would have been a lot of confusion about what the dish actually was. You can certainly sub in potato or some similar if you can't get jicama. Jicama Fries Ingredients...
  7. Morning Glory

    The CookingBites Recipe Challenge: Sesame Seeds

    Congratulations go to medtran49 who won the Recipe Challenge ‘milk and/or cream’ with a recipe for Chicken massaman curry and has chosen Sesame Seeds (including any of their products, such as oil, flour, tahini) as the next challenge ingredient. The deadline for entries is midday Monday 28th...
  8. Elawin

    Recipe Beans, Swiss Chard and Rice in a Tahini Sauce

    Serves: 2 Ingredients: 1 tbsp butter 10 black peppercorns 150 g rice, rinsed, then soaked for 20 minutes, and drained 300 ml boiling water 1-2 garlic cloves, sliced and crushed, according to taste 75 g natural yoghurt 2 tbsp tahini 1-2 tbsp lemon juice, according to taste 200 g Swiss chard...
  9. pinkcherrychef

    Recipe Babanook (the tahini yogurt version) or Baba Ganoush

    Okay I have no idea if thats the correct way to spell it but thats how my husband pronounces it. So lets just call it that even if it's wrong who cares as long as it taste good right? Now there are two different versions of Babanook there's the tomato one and the tahini yogurt one. I have yet to...
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  10. Diane Lane

    Homemade Hummus and Tahini

    I haven't made this yet, but I love hummus, and have always wanted to try making it. I'm not sure if I'll make the tahini homemade or buy it when I do get around to making this. Hummus is sometimes expensive where I live, so making my own will be another way to save money, plus it's sure to...
  11. ChanellG

    Chickpea Salad with Tahini

    I finally tried a recipe I pinned a while back for chickpea salad with cucumbers and tomato. I had a large can of chickpeas (AKA garbanzo beans) and a jar of tahini that needed to be used. I only had one lemon (needed juice from two) and I was out of olive oil, so I had to improvise a bit. I...
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