List of sesame seed dishes
Appearance
This is a list of notable sesame seed dishes and foods, which are prepared using sesame seed as a main ingredient. Sesame seed is a common ingredient in various cuisines, and is used whole in cooking for its rich, nutty flavor. It is also a potent allergen.
Sesame-seed dishes and foods
- Παστέλι (Pasteli = sesame seed crunchy candy) In Greece and Cyprus, sesame seed candy is called pasteli and is generally a flat, oblong bar made with honey and often including nuts. Though the modern name παστέλι pasteli is of Italian origin,[1] very similar foods are documented in Ancient Greek cuisine: the Cretan koptoplakous (κοπτοπλακοῦς) or gastris (γάστρις) was a layer of ground nuts sandwiched between two layers of sesame crushed with honey.[2] Herodotus also mentions "sweet cakes of sesame and honey", but with no detail.[3]
- Benne ball – a Trinidadian and Tobagonian sesame-based dessert invented by Afro-Trinidadians. It is ball-shaped, and has a very hard consistency.[4]
- Benne Wafer – a wafer-like cookie made primarily from sesame seed and sesame flour. Very popular in Charleston, South Carolina. The sesame seed, also called "benne," is thought have been brought to colonial American by West African slaves.
- Chinatowns. It is sweet and the texture is smooth and soft.
- Black sesame soup – a popular east-Asian and Chinese dessert widely available throughout China, Hong Kong and Singapore.[9]
- Chikki – a traditional Indian sweet sometimes prepared using sesame seeds.
- Afro-Puerto Rican culture and is related to mofongo.
- , India where it is most commonly consumed in the winter months. It is a dry sweet made of sesame seeds, ground nuts and jaggery.
- Goma-ae – a Japanese side dish made with vegetables and sesame dressing (goma meaning sesame and ae meaning sauce in Japanese).
- Gomashio – a dry condiment made from unhulled sesame seeds.
- Horchata de ajonjolí – a drink from Puerto Rico made using toasted sesame seeds and spices.
- Injeolmi – a variety of tteok, or Korean rice cake sometimes prepared using sesame seeds.
- Chinese pastry made from glutinous riceflour, it is coated with sesame seeds on the outside and is crisp and chewy.
- Ka'ak – can refer to a bread commonly consumed throughout the Near East that is made in a large ring-shape and is covered with sesame seeds.
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- Tilkut – a sweet made in the Indian states of Bihar and Jharkhand, it is made of pounded 'tila' or sesame seeds (Sesamum indicum) and jaggery or sugar.
- Sesame halva – sweet confections popular in the Balkans, Poland, the Middle East, and other areas surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.
- Sesame-seed cake – a cake made of sesame seeds, often combined with honey as a sweetener.
- Changzhou Sesame Cake – a type of elliptical, baked cake that originated in Changzhou, Jiangsu, China supposedly over 150 years ago.
- Sesame-seed candy – a confection of sesame seeds and sugar or honey pressed into a bar or ball, it is popular from the Middle East through South Asia to East Asia.
- Changzhou sesame candy – a traditional cookie in places such as Changzhou, China.
- Gofio de ajonjolí – a typical Puerto Rican sweet made from roasted corn, sesame seeds, and brown sugar.
- Mampostial – a Puerto Rican candy bar known as "black coconut" (in English) made using coconut, brown sugar, honey, vanilla, cinnamon, molasses, and sesame seeds.
- Marrallo – a sweet empanada made from the same ingredients as mampostial, it is a popular street food snack.
- Pilones de ajonjolí– a pilones is a lollipop that made using sesame seeds, honey, and fruit juice or coconut milk typically sold in Puerto Rican convenient stores.
- Tilgul – a colourful sesame-seed candy coated with sesame seeds, in Maharashtra, India people exchange tilgul on Sankranti, a Hindu festival celebrated on 14 January.
- Sesame chicken - a Chinese dish.
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Sesame seeds being harvested in Mozambique
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Halo! brand sesame seed biscuits
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AChangzhou Sesame Cake
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Sesame-seed chikki
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Ellunda
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black sesame injeolmi
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Keciput
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Huangqiao Sesame Cake
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Puerto Rican sesame-seed candy
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Black sesame ice cream
See also
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References
- Λεξικό της Νέας Ελληνικής Γλώσσας: "παστέλι."
- ISBN 1-86064-603-4. p. 88.
- ^ Herodotus, Histories 3:48; also in Hist. 3.44: "ἴτρια, τραγήμαθ᾽ ἧκε, πυραμοῦς, ἄμης."
- ^ Bennett, Steve (2019-02-06). "Benne Balls, Trinidad's Answer To The Jawbreaker | Tobago, Trinidad |". Uncommon Caribbean. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
- ISBN 9781479869251.
- ^ Belle Piccio (6 August 2013). "Binangkal: A Cebuano Native Delicacy". Choose Philippines. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
- ^ "Binangkal Recipe". Kusinera Davao. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
- ^ Bernadette Parco (15 September 2016). "'Hikay': Cookbook hopes to keep Cebuano cookery alive". GMA News Online. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
- ^ MzTasty's Kitchen, "Black Sesame Soup", Petitchef, retrieved 12 August 2012
- ^ Japanese Furikake (Rice Seasoning) Archived 2011-08-25 at the Wayback Machine. Japanese Kitchen. Accessed 28 October 2009.
- ISBN 978-1441906182.
- ^ Ambrose, Amber (12 April 2010). "Random Ingredient of the Week: Furikake". Houston Press. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
- ^ (in Korean) "주요 한식명(200개) 로마자 표기 및 번역(영, 중, 일) 표준안" [Standardized Romanizations and Translations (English, Chinese, and Japanese) of (200) Major Korean Dishes] (PDF). National Institute of Korean Language. 2014-07-30. Retrieved 2017-02-14.
- 주요 한식명 로마자 표기 및 표준 번역 확정안 공지. National Institute of Korean Language (Press release) (in Korean). 2014-05-02.
- ^ a b "heugimja juk" 흑임자죽 [Black Sesame and Rice Porridge]. Korean Food Foundation. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
- ^ "Yat-sen Cake Archived 2011-04-03 at the Wayback Machine. en.jiangyin.gov.cn Archived 2014-04-01 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed September 2011.
- ISBN 978-1-59265-049-1.
- ^ "Huangqiao Sesame Seed Cake (黄桥烧饼)."[permanent dead link] English.taizhou.gov.cn. Accessed September 2011.