Tahini (طحينة), zhimajiang (芝麻醤), nerigoma(ねりごま), טחינה (tahina or t'hina - Hebrew) or sesame paste is a paste of ground sesame seeds used in cooking. Middle Eastern tahini is made of hulled, lightly roasted seeds. East Asian sesame paste is made of unhulled seeds.
Tahini is a major component of hummus bi tahini and other Middle Eastern foods. It is sold fresh or dehydrated.
Sesame paste is an ingredient in some Chinese, Korean, and Japanese dish...
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Tahini (طحينة), zhimajiang (芝麻醤), nerigoma(ねりごま), טחינה (tahina or t'hina - Hebrew) or sesame paste is a paste of ground sesame seeds used in cooking. Middle Eastern tahini is made of hulled, lightly roasted seeds. East Asian sesame paste is made of unhulled seeds.
Tahini is a major component of hummus bi tahini and other Middle Eastern foods. It is sold fresh or dehydrated.
Sesame paste is an ingredient in some Chinese, Korean, and Japanese dishes; it is used in some versions of the Szechuan dish Dan dan noodles. Because East Asian sesame paste is made from unhulled seeds, it is more bitter than tahini, and higher in some nutrients.
Tahini is an Arabic loanword to English. طحينة IPA: [tˁaħiːnah], or more accurately ṭaḥīnīa طحينية, is derived from the root طحن tˁ-ħ-n which as a verb means 'to grind', the same root as طحين IPA: [tˁaħiːn] 'flour'.
It is sometimes called tahina or t'hina (טחינה), based on the cognate Hebrew word of the same root and meaning ("to grind").
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