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Sesame
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By Eleanor Ford
Published 2024
Why love it
White sesame is subtle and sweetly nutty, whilst sesame paste or tahini has a creaminess useful in vegan baking. Black sesame has a heavier, earthier flavour with a more pronounced flicker of bitterness.
Match with
Nut: pine nut, almond
Sweet fruit: apple, banana
Tart fruit: tamarind
Spice & herb: vanilla, poppy seed, wattleseed, bay, turmeric, sumac, mahleb, ginger
Sweet: honey
Extract the flavour
Offering little taste raw, as soon as sesame is toasted its alluring nutty flavours come to the fore.