You may know tahini as the star ingredient in hummus, but this sesame-derived sensation is so much more than that. Tahini adds nuttiness to sauces and dips and richness to desserts (try swirling a ...

Lior Lev Sercarz, founder of spice company La Boìte, considers tahini a must-have ingredient in the kitchen. “It is such a staple item in Israeli food,” says Lev Sercarz, author of “A Middle Eastern ...

This article originally appeared on The Nosher. Basic tahini sauce is made with a mixture of tahini paste, water, lemon juice and garlic. Tahini paste itself is made from toasted ground sesame seeds.

For many home cooks tahini — the Middle Eastern condiment of ground sesame seeds — is what you put in hummus. And only hummus. For Food Network personality Molly Yeh, tahini is much more than that. In ...

If your homemade hummus never tastes as silky and rich as the one at your favorite restaurant, experts say the fix is easy: ...

Sesame street: Yotam Ottolenghi was instrumental in raising the profile of tahini "The sky's the limit when it comes to tahini," wrote Yotam Ottolenghi in his 2008 debut cookbook. "It works in total ...

Turkana Food Inc. is recalling 858 cases OF Aleppo Tahini Sesame Paste because the product may be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in ...

Ziyad Brothers Importing is recalling tahini paste sold at Walmart and other retailers nationwide because state tests showed it was positive for Salmonella contamination. The Cicero, IL, company said ...

International Golden Foods of Bensenville, Illinois, has voluntarily recalled some lots of Al kanater tahini sesame paste because it “has the potential to be contaminated with salmonella.” Salmonella ...

A jar of tahini contaminated with potentially deadly salmonella has prompted a manufacturer to issue a nationwide recall of the sesame paste. Ziyad Brothers Importing, based in Cicero, Illinois, has ...