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What does tahini mean?

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Noun
  1. (cooking) A paste made from ground sesame seeds; used to make hummus, baba ghanoush etc.
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Kasrah is often eaten with dips, such as babaghanuj, a dip made of mashed, roasted eggplant mixed with lemon, tahini, and a pinch of salt.
This potato and chickpea paste is rolled out like dough and filled with sauteed onion, pinenuts, currants, allspice, and tahini.
Make the dressing by mixing the yoghurt, tahini paste and olive oil in a blender or with a small whisk.
For the hummus, place the chickpeas, garlic, lemon juice and tahini in a food processor with two teaspoons of the cumin.
Other common Arab dishes include shish kebab and falafel, which are deep fried balls of chickpeas served with tahini.
One of the cheapest and easiest 'deli' foods to make, hummus is essentially chickpeas pureed with tahini and other flavours added.

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