Homemade Tahini!

Name: Homemade Tahini!
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 3 Cups, 12 serving(s)
Ingredients: 4 cups sesame seeds; 1/4-1/2 cup vegetable oil

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Submitted by Bekah

"After searching high and low in my town for a jar of tahini, I couldn't find any! I went searching online and found this easy recipe. This is MUCH cheaper to make yourself, and only takes a couple minutes."

Homemade Tahini! created by DeliciousAsItLooks

Ready In:: 20mins
Ingredients:: 2
Yields:: 3 Cups
Serves:: 12

ingredients

4 cups sesame seeds
¹⁄₄ - ¹⁄₂ cup vegetable oil

directions

Preheat the oven to 350°F.
Spread the sesame seeds on a shallow baking tray and bake, shaking frequently, until fragrant, 8 to 10 minutes.
Do not brown.
Cool.
Put the sesame seeds in a blender or food processor fitted with the metal blade.
Add the vegetable oil.
Process to a smooth paste, about 5 minutes.
Add more oil if necessary, to bring the paste to a thick pouring consistency.
Tahini will keep stored in a tightly covered jar in the refrigerator for several months.

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Searching for sesame seeds & I see there's hulled and unhulled. Which will I need? Thanks in advance!

smjaczko
great recipe.

Dell P.
Oops! So sorry. I didn't see the yield at the beginning of the recipe when I first looked at it. ?

Kathi W.
This recipe is pretty standard (although this makes a lot more tahini than most recipes). My only real criticism is that I wish credit was given to the originator of the recipe (the poster admitted to getting this on another site). For the record, it's not my recipe so I don't have a stake in this, but it sucks to have people take your work without giving credit.

DocTonyNYC
Really good, made it to go in hummus. Everything came out well.

ironchef25