Homemade Dark Sesame Tahini

Name: Homemade Dark Sesame Tahini
Total time: 2400 s
Yield: Yields 2 cups
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 2 c whole sesame seeds; 2 Tbsp sesame oil or neutral vegetable oil

Bianca Mwale @bianca_eatsy

Zomba, Malawi

If luck were a person, it would be me. The #CA2025 challenge is still underway, and tell me why I have not cooked in ages, yet tucked away in my drafts is a recipe featuring sesame. And guess what? Sesame just happens to be one of the key ingredients for this week’s submission. So here it is: a dark sesame tahini recipe that begins with roasting sesame seeds until they turn a rich, nutty brown, giving it that deep, peanut butter–like color and flavor.

Bianca Mwale @bianca_eatsy

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Ingredients

40 minutes

Yields 2 cups

2 cwhole sesame seeds
2 Tbspsesame oil or neutral vegetable oil

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Steps

40 minutes

1

Preheat your oven to 160°C. Evenly spread sesame seeds on a cookie pan and bake for 5-10 minutes depending on the color intensity you want to achieve but without baking too long to avoid making them burnt and bitter. Stir the sesame seeds after 2 minutes of baking
2

Take pan out of the oven and once sesame seeds have cooled, transfer them into the bowl of your food processor and process until smooth, slowly adding the oil
3

Transfer in to jar and store in a cool, dry place
4

I used some of mine in these nutritious tahini crackers that l displayed on a mini charcuterie

Dark Sesame Tahini Crackers