Your Own Sesame Tahini

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Masha and Anya are the plant-based cooking duo behind Golubka Kitchen. They believe that the most nourishing meals come from fresh, whole ingredients prepared with love and intention.

Your Own Sesame Tahini


Sesame tahini is one of those simple ingredients that build a new dimension within a dish’s flavour. It’s used widely in salad dressings, sauces, and desserts. Sesame seeds have an earthy taste and are plump with calcium, manganese and iron. Prepackaged raw food is often costly, so I make my own tahini and nut butters, as they only require a good whiz in the processor and a cool place on your refrigerator shelf.

The official tahini recipe calls for 1/3 cup of olive oil per 2 cups of sesame seeds. I rarely measure, instead using good reason and a variety of oils in addition to the olive. Hemp or any nut oils will bring more character to your tahini. Grind all the ingredients together in a food possessor to achieve a paste-like consistency. You may need to give it a stir or two with a wooden spoon in the process. A favourite recipe, which calls for tahini, is one for our kale chips.
M went to Concord the other weekend and sent me some photos from Hawthorne’s backyard. The peaceful, unrefined landscape somehow reminds me of the musky flavour of sesame tahini.

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Golubka

Happy Chef, Hah, we feel the same way :)

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Happy Chef

Middle Eastern is one of my favorite foods, and Tahini is right in the middle of it!

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Golubka

Anon 11:14 – As I mentioned above, sesame tahini is just an ingredient that we use in small amounts to bring a unique flavour to other dishes, like our kale chips. Yep, olive or other oils (see post). Anon 12:28 – Buying them is not a problem at all, you can find them in bulk at health food stores. They’re inexpensive. Or you can get them online http://www.nutsonline.com/ or other stores.

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Anonymous

Where you can buy such a big amount of sesame seeds???

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Anonymous

so that’s it? only olive oil and sesame? isn’t all that oil heavy to digest?

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