Tahini

Tahini

What it is

Ground sesame and nothing else, and it does something counterintuitive: stir water into it and it seizes and thickens before suddenly loosening into a pale, smooth cream. Cooks who do not expect that throw away the first batch.

In the kitchen

Keep adding the water through the seizing stage. It always comes back, and it takes far more water than seems possible.

Goes with

Lemon Garlic Chickpeas Cumin Olive oil Date Honey Parsley

Also used with

Barley malt syrup Carob powder Date paste Sidr honey Tombul hazelnut Date syrup (silan)

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