Toasted Sesame Seed Sauce

Tlatonile

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    4 cups

    concentrated paste
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Zarela's Veracruz: Mexico's Simplest Cuisine

By Zarela Martínez

Published 2001

  • About

Have you ever tasted chinese sesame paste? if so, you may have a flicker of recognition on trying this classic sauce from Huatusco, in the hills of north-central Veracruz. It took me a while to warm to tlatonile. Then I had the version served at the restaurant at Los Cocuyos resort and was converted. What makes that version special is that the seeds are very carefully roasted and that the seasonings really set off the flavor of the sesame.

Tlatonile is one of the Mexic