Tahini: what it is and how to use it
Posted by kathryn in Uncategorized
A couple of weeks ago I was posting all about tahini. I thought a summary page would be useful, to finish off that series.
Below are links to my posts on the nutritional content of tahini, plus how I use it. At the end are links to other recipes and tahini ideas.
All about tahini
- What is tahini and is it good for you
- How to buy and store tahini
- How much calcium is in tahini and how to get enough calcium when you don’t drink milk
- The iron content of tahini
How I use tahini
- Tahini salad dressing
- Fruit, nut and tahini breakfast bars
- As a spread on toast
- Chickpea, lima bean and tahini casserole
- Roast pumpkin with white beans and barley
- In stir frys – recipe at the bottom of the page
Other ways to use tahini
- Barbecue eggplant slices with pomegranate, yoghurt and tahini from Stonesoup
- Triple sesame snow pea salad from Chocolate & Zucchini
- Baked fish with tahini
- Babaghanoush
- Green olive and carrot hummous from Fat Free Vegan Kitchen
- Wild greens and lemon tahini dressing from Gluten Free Girl
- Broccoli lentil soup with roasted pepper coulis
- Fantastic falafels from Green Gourmet Giraffe
- Tahini and grape syrup spread from Only Turkish Food
- Cassie at Veggie Meal Plans used my tahini dressing for a spinach, roasted beetroot and chickpea salad
11 December, 2007
Comments
That’s great to see so many recipes with tahini – thanks for including the one from my blog – hope to try lots of the others – I love tahini!
No worries at all Johanna – as I mentioned to you, I love the fact your falafels are oven baked and not deep fried.
I always used to think that tahini was a poor substiture for butter but a) it’s a lot easier to spread and b) you get used to the taste after a while.
Thank your for this post my friend. I’ve only been using tahini for hummus :)
No worries Cynthia.
A google search for what to do with tahini found me at your website. I had bought a jar for the purpose of making hummus. I am excited to use it as suggested.
My curiousity question is on the origin of the phrase no worries where we would normally reply with “your welcome”… I noticed you replied to both thank you with that… I had an aha moment ~ Is that a common way to reply in Australia?…
Of late we have heard the youth use it here in BC Canada and as “old people” we are confused … was there ever a worry? LOL We are becoming educated in more ways than just tahini… to which I say thanks and my only “worry” is that this curiousity note was not intended to offend ~ that was the least of my intetions… but rather muse in the english language and the origins thereof …spoken across the continents and having such different meanings.
KD – welcome to Limes & Lycopene. Your comment did make me smile. You’ve picked up on a very common Australian-ism. We use “no worries” to mean “you’re welcome” or “any time” – even when, as you say, there was no original worry to speak of.
While I was born and grew up in the UK, I’ve lived in Australia most of my life and have therefore picked up many of the local phrases and colloquialisms. I’m sure there are many scattered throughout Limes & Lycopene.
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