Toasted sesame oil

Huile de sésame grillé

What it is

Two entirely different products share the name: the pale oil from raw seed, used for frying, and the dark oil from toasted seed, which is a seasoning and not a cooking fat at all. Buying the wrong one ruins the dish either way.

In the kitchen

Add it at the very end, by the half-teaspoon. Heated, its whole aroma burns off within seconds.

Goes with

Soy sauce Ginger Garlic Spring onion Chili pepper Sesame Fish sauce Shiitake

Same species

Black sesame Black sesame paste Chinese sesame paste Rāyu Sesame

Also used with

Acorn Arame Bamboo salt Celtuce Chinese toon shoots Dangmyeon

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