All About TAHINI | 10 Easy Recipes You Can Do At Home & Useful Tips — Hummus, Cookie, Sauce & More!

Today, we will be exploring tahini, one of the best ingredients in creating both healthy and tasty meals! We will cover everything from how it's made to how it can be used in various dishes and the secret tips of making tahini at home. Furthermore, we will try out delicious appetizers, salads, dressings, and dessert recipes with tahini. I'm sure these flavors will elevate your meals to the next level!

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Tahini&Lemon

2 onions
4 tablespoons of tahini
Juice of 2 lemons
3 tablespoons of water
Olive oil
Sumac
Salt

• Mix lemons, tahini and drinking water until creamy.
• Take it in a bowl and add sumac to it.

Hibeş

1 cup of tahini
2 lemons’ juice
½ cup of water
2 cloves of garlic
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon paprika

• Squeeze lemons and mix it with tahini.
• Add cumin and paprika.
• Puree 2 cloves of garlic and add to mixture. Hibeş is a great sauce for kebap or you can eat as a dip or mezze.
• For toppins you can sprinkle some paprika, cumin and fresh parsley leaves.

Tahini Salad Dressing

2 tablespoons tahini
1 lemon juice
5 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons yogurt
Salt
Pepper

• Mix tahini, lemon juice, olive oil, yogurt in a jar or glass.
• Add salt and pepper to your taste, your tahini dressing is ready to enjoy.

For Beetroot Hummus: Add 1 boiled beetroot to the recipe above.

Mung Bean Hummus: Put 400 g of boiled mung beans, (225 g dry) 100 ml of water and 50 g of fresh coriander in the robot and grind until puree. Add 4 cloves of garlic, 50 ml of lemon juice, 120 g of tahini and 1.5 teaspoons of salt and pull again. While serving, if you like it hot, you can pour some chili pepper and olive oil on it.

Piyaz

200 g boiled beans
1 red onion, chopped
9 sprigs of parsley, finely chopped
4 tablespoons of vinegar
6 tablespoons of olive oil
Salt
Boiled egg, sliced

• Open a can of boiled beans and drain.
• Add red onion and parsley to boiled beans.
• Add vinegar, olive oil and salt to your taste.
• When you slice the boiled egg on it, the delicious piyaz is ready.

Tahini Mantı

½ kg. mince meat
1 onion, chopped
2 cloves of garlic, chopped
1 egg
½ bunch of parsley, chopped
2 tablespoons of breadcrumbs
1.5 teaspoons cumin
1 teaspoon of black pepper
2 teaspoons meatball spring
½ tablespoon of sumac
1.5 tablespoons of olive oil

Sauce

4 tablespoons of yogurt
2 tablespoons of tahini
juice of 2 lemons
Sumac

• Put the minced meat in a deep bowl, finely chop the onion, parsley and garlic and add them to the minced meat in order.
• Then add the spices to the mixture, break the egg into it and knead the meatballs. The more you knead this patty, the better it will taste.
• Add enough breadcrumbs or 2 tablespoons of breadcrumbs to get the consistency.
• Form your meatballs into balls the size of manti.
• Put baking paper on the tray. After oiling the manti, with a little olive oil, fry them in a heated 250-degree oven for 4-5 minutes.
• Then add the meatballs and cook with them for 15-20 minutes. It is important that the tray is not overfilled, so that you can easily mix the manti and meatballs, and the oils will mix.
• For the sauce, mix the yoghurt, which you have kept at room temperature, with tahini and lemon juice. Lemon juice will help open the tahini and help the yogurt-tahini mixture become creamy. After pouring this sauce over the manti meatballs, spice it up with some sumac. A taste that will feast the eyes and stomach awaits you.

👇🏻 The rest of the recipes are in the comments below. 👇🏻

[Refika]

Tahini Souffle

3 tablespoons of flour (50 g)
1 packet of baking powder
1 pack of vanilla
3 tablespoons of butter (75 g)
6 tablespoons of carob molasses (80 g)
8 tablespoons of tahini (110 g)
2 eggs
1 pinch of salt
2 tablespoons of powdered sugar
2 thick slices of ice cream
For moulds,
1 teaspoon of butter

• Operate the oven at 200 degrees without a fan. Place on the middle rack of the oven with the hollow side of the baking wire facing up.
• Mix the flour, vanillin and baking powder in a bowl.
• Melt the butter on the stove.
• Add the carob molasses and tahini into the melted butter after the heat is gone. Mix well until all ingredients are combined. If you do not have carob molasses, you can also use grape molasses, but if it is not a dense molasses, it may be necessary to increase it by 1-2 spoons.
• separate the yolk and white of the eggs.
• Add the egg yolk to the molasses mixture. Make sure the butter is not hot as this will cause the egg to cook.
• Preferably take a metal bowl to whisk the egg whites. You can use it on glass and plastic if you wish.
• Add 1 pinch of salt into the egg whites.
• Beat at low speed for 1 minute with a whisk.
• Increase the beater speed. Slowly add the powdered sugar to the egg white, which begins to foam, while continuing to whisk.
• It is ready when the egg white comes together and forms hard combs on the tip of the whisk.
• Mix the flour mixture with the molasses mixture by folding it with a spatula.
• Pull the egg white to the side of the bowl and pour the molasses mixture next to the egg white. If you pour it directly on it, it will deflate the egg whites.
• Using a spatula, fold the egg white from bottom to top without pressing the molasses mixture. Be careful not to deflate the egg white.
• Grease the cookware with butter.
• Divide the soufflé mixture into greased cooking pots without waiting too long.
• Place the cookware on the wire in the middle of the preheated oven.
• Cook for 10-12 minutes without opening the lid.
• Serve the soufflés that come out of the oven without waiting too long. Waiting will cause the soufflé to deflate a little.
• Cut the slices of ice cream into three and place one large piece of ice cream on each soufflé.
• When ice cream is added to the tahini and molasses duo, your delicious souffle is at your disposal.

Tahini Bun

250 ml of milk
2 heaping tablespoons of granulated sugar
1 packet of instant yeast
Half kg flour
1 egg
1 pinch of salt
2 tablespoons of butter
8 tablespoons of tahini
5 handfuls of walnuts
8 tablespoons of granulated sugar

INTO:

3 tablespoons of tahini
3 tablespoons of granulated sugar

Tahini Molasses Sauce

5 tablespoons of tahini
5 tablespoons of molasses
3-4 tablespoons of milk

• For the dough of the muffin, add instant yeast to the warm milk and granulated sugar to awaken the yeast and mix.
• While the yeast is reviving a little, make a hole in the middle of the flour in a large bowl. Add eggs, salt, softened butter at room temperature and fermented milk to the cavity and knead until it reaches a soft dough consistency.
• Then take the dough on the counter and knead for about 2-3 more minutes by pushing it with both hands and pulling it back.
• Take the dough into the bowl that you kneaded again and lay a damp cloth on it and let it rest for half an hour, but if you have time, about 1 hour. About twice that will be enough.
• Take the rested dough from the bowl to the counter and open it in a rectangular shape with your hands. Since the dough is oily, it will be easily rolled out with your hands.
• Spread the tahini and grape molasses on the dough.
• Add walnuts on it and fold it in the form of a roll from the long side of the dough.
• Cut the dough into quarters and flatten it by pressing it a little. Add the tahini, molasses and walnuts to each piece.
• Fold the dough inwards from the short edge again and cut in half. So you will have 8 rolls.
• Place the dough rolls in the air fryer or oven and bake at 170 degrees for 20 minutes.
• For tahini and molasses sauce, mix tahini, molasses and milk in a bowl.
• When the buns are cooked, add tahini and molasses sauce and roasted sesame, and your tahini and molasses bun is ready!


Tahini Cocoa Spread: Mix 2 tablespoons of tahini, 2.5 tablespoons of honey, 2 teaspoons of cocoa.

[mohabatkhanmalak]

Thank you very much, we are home cooks here and you have shown us some wonderfull ways we can use Tahini.
There's this Lebanese recipe for fish cooked in Tahini sauce: Bake whole fish to about 60%. Mix Tahini with whole lemon's juice. Add a little water and stir to lighten mix. Add salt to taste and pour over fish, covering it. Bake for 8-10mins and serve. *You can chop some parsley and add it to the Tahini sauce before putting fish in oven.🌼

[davidbennett]

So many wonderful uses for this delicious ingredient!
Here is one more - something I came up with when I made my first batch of tahini following your recipe.
SESAME OAT CRACKERS
Preheat oven to 190°C
Pulse in a food processor to make a fine meal:
1 cup rolled oats
Pulse in until combined:
¼ cup whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon ground cardamom
½ cup tahini
¼ cup warm water
This will give you stiff, dry, pastry-like dough. Let it rest for 15 minutes.
Roll quite thin on a board sprinkled with sesame seeds. Cut with a medium sized cookie cutter and prick with a fork. (Makes about 30).
Bake 15 to 20 minutes on a parchment lined sheet.

[bluewren]

Tahini is truly an amazing, wonder ingredient! One of the ways I love to use it, which as not mentioned here, is to use it to thicken soups. It's gives a flavour punch and creamy texture that is just amazing.

[foodislife]

One of our favourite treats growing up was the halva our parents would bring home. We were allowed a little crumble of it each because it was very hard to find here in NZ at the time. So when we did find it as older children we would get it for our parents as a present. Seeing your recipe for halva has made me want to try making it myself. Sadly both our parents are gone now but this is a lovely reminder of our childhood. Thanks for sharing the great information on all the wonders of tahini.

[peacefulgarden]

It's so funny how simple recipes oceans apart can be so similar. Here in Quebec, Canada, a very old time snack is peanut butter and molasses. Perhaps a Turkish person showed someone the Tahiti and molasses 100 years ago and they adapted it to local ingredients. Who knows? But I love both! Thank you Rafika for all your deliciousness 😉

[jenniferibarra]

I mixed tahini paste with honey and dried apricot chunks and put it on a toast as a quick healthy breakfast . I love Tahini it has improved my health a lot ❤

[reginar]

My favourite breakfast is Date molasses with tahini on toast. For a butter substitute I mix 60% coconut oil with 40% olive oil, which spreads sty from the fridge and goes with sweet or savoury.
Your quick zip of tahini uses was brilliant 🥰

[jamesvoigt]

Thank goodness there is no end to the wonderful things you can do with tahini both simple and complex. I hope you write a book about tahini and its uses. There is already one called "The Tahini Table" but yours would be much different with a Turkish and reginal spin which I would adore. It is not that often you find such a delicious food to be so extremely healthful.

[foryoutube]

My daughter suffered from cocaine gut as an infant (not from me, she is adopted). She would vomit constantly, any milks made her sick until I found sesame milk. It literally saved her - that and keeping her full of food which was counterintuitive.

[natashasouliere]

I looked up the health benefits of Tahini well IT IS MAGIC!!!! This makes me so excited. Thank you again, Refika et al.

[maggie-qm]

I had no idea tahini is so versatile! I’ve only used tahini in chickpea hummus and salad dressings. I’m looking forward to making several of these recipes. I always learn so much from you, Refika. Peace and love ☮️💟

[samjones]

My organic sesame seeds arrive tomorrow and I plan on making tahini, hummus and healthy nutella for my grandbabies, love your channel. We have a wonderful restaurant locally called Anatolia and all the guys come from there - they let the food speak for itself - my favourite restaurant

[atillakaragazi]

Tahini is also great for making very quick desserts. In Central Anatolia, apart from grape molasses, people mix tahini with all sorts of jams. My most favorite is tahini and rose jam mix. Also, we mix helva with lemon and make a smooth paste, then add tahini on top.

[rubysilver]

I replace peanut butter with tahini in the traditional peanut butter cookie recipe. They’re absolutely delicious and now I want one.

[renukamenon]

I have made your Hummus- the BEST! Thank you for sharing the other Tahini recipes! Yummy 🥰

[denisekinsley]

I already knew I liked tahini, and this gives me many new ways to use it - thank you!

[chrisrogers]

I've had rice krispie treats made with tahini instead of marshmallow. Really good!

[VeretenoVids]

I LOVE sumac. It's one of the spices that I always have in stock. Thanks for some more ideas how to use tahini--I've been making my own since you taught us. Many thanks for that! The root you mentioned is called soapwort in English. Botanical name Saponaria officinalis. #plantgeek

[mahaniabdullah]

I had no idea how many recipes with tahini… Thank you so much for this .. May everything be easy for you all and blessed .. sending much love from Brunei :) xx