Browned Fish with Tahini/Sesame Paste Sauce

Samak Maqli bi-Khal wa Rashi

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    4

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Delights from the Garden of Eden

By Nawal Nasrallah

Published 2019

  • About

I found this delicious recipe in al-Baghdadi’s thirteenth-century cookbook, where it is called Samak Maqlu bi-Khal wa-Rahshi (fish fried with vinegar and tahini/sesame paste). We still use the same medieval indigenous name rahshi (tahini), except that we pronounce it rashi. The quantities suggested below are my improvisation.