Sesame Sauce

芝麻酱

Preparation info
  • Makes

    cups
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
House of Nanking: Family Recipes from San Francisco's Favorite Chinese Restaurant

By Kathy Fang and Peter Fang

Published 2025

  • About

PETER: This is one of Nanking’s signature sauces, which we use on our Sesame Noodles. It also works as a dressing for salad, dip for crudité, or sauce for fried vegetables and dumplings.

Chinese sesame paste has a different flavor profile and consistency than tahini. Tahini uses untoasted sesame seeds, whereas Chinese sesame paste starts with toasted sesame seeds, resulting in a thicker, darker, more aromatic paste. For Chinese rec

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