Tahini

Recipes

1. Chicken Salad with Tahini Sauce

   Tahini (tuh-HEE-nee), a thick paste made of ground sesame seed, flavors the dressing for this refreshing chicken and cabbage salad. Look for tahini in the ethnic foods section of your grocery store.
2. Tahini Sauce

   This garlicky tahini sauce is traditionally served with chicken kebabs, but we loved it with the beef kebabs as well.
3. Honey-Tahini Dressing

   Extra-virgin olive oil and lemon juice are the backbone of this dressing, but it gets a unique toasty flavor from tahini .

Articles

1. Buy It vs. Make It: Hummus

   Thu, 23 Feb 2012

   … chickpeas and grinding them with some tahini , as this recipe told me to do. The result ..... s nuts, but it’s how I roll. The tahini is also pricey, about $7 for a 16-ounce jar ..... of cooked chickpeas) and make your own tahini (also not hard — just toasting sesame seeds …
2. Easy New Year’s Resolutions: Dive into Dip!

   Fri, 4 Jan 2013

   … more than canned chickpeas, garlic, lemon juice, olive oil and the option of tahini (sesame paste). Need proof? Just check out our recipe for Easy Hummus with Tahini (pictured, left). With baby carrots or crunchy pita chips as the hummus-delivery vehicle …
3. 10 Fresh, Healthy Lunches You Can Take to Work

   Mon, 16 Jul 2012

   … s greatest pleasures, and now that people are finally using it in salads, we can eat lots more of it. Easy Hummus with Tahini Hummus is another easy-to-pack, easy-to-make veggie lunch dish. You'll get Brownie points for eating so many raw vegetables at lunchtime …

Food Blogs We Love

1. lentil and chickpea salad with feta and tahini

   Mon, 1 Apr 2013

   I have an uneven history with chef cookbooks. I have learned the hard way more often than I’ve wished to that just because I might enjoy sitting down at someone’s restaurant table does not mean that their work will translate into an enjoyable home cooking experience — you know, one without ...
2. Hummus, Gay Carrots and the Best Speech of the Night

   Mon, 15 Apr 2013

   … recipes call for canned garbanzo beans and tahini from a jar. I find the best hummus is ..... also cheaper) and brown sesame seeds ( tahini is ground sesame seed paste). My recipe ..... recipe uses dried chickpeas but he uses tahini in his recipe. I find brown sesame seeds …
3. 
   Roasted Red Pepper Hummus

   Fri, 19 Apr 2013

   The other day I was looking for a snack and I wanted something light and healthy. Hummus, a mixture of pureed chickpeas, tahini (sesame paste), garlic and lemon juice, is one of my go-to appetizers in these sort of situations since despite being …