Tahini Substitutes
Tahini is mostly a key ingredient to some dishes or sauce. Examples of these are the halva, baba ganoush, and hummus. A condiment that is bitter, but nutty in flavour. It is a thick paste but consistency becomes thinner once it’s added with warm water or an olive oil. Tahini is unique in itself, so replacing it is quite difficult. Worry no more though, there are tahini substitutes for you to use.
Tahini paste can be an ingredient of your pita and shawarma sauce, a dressing for your vegetable salad, for dipping your vegetables or meat, an ingredients of ice cream, bread, cake or cookies.
Tahini is available in an “oriental” or “ethnic” grocery stores or kiosks. In this store, they can offer you a wider-range of tahini to choose from. This will help you choose what