Several weeks ago, I made hummus on the channel and thank you guys, lots of
comments, there are lots of people who made it with the tips that I've involved
and said that they have evolved their hummus or for the first time they're
making it and they loved it, thank you for all those comments and in those
comments, I learned something I didn't know that I
thought like tahini is all over the world but actually it's not and some people didn't
know what is tahini and some people wouldn't be able to find tahini around.
So today's subject is tahini; what is tahini and we can make it at home and
with what we make; can we make different things than hummus, like hummus is
something great but can it take the place of Nutella, can it turn into
different things, can it go really well as a dressing of a kebab. These are the
things that I'm going to talk about today. So first of what is tahini tahini
is actually a sesame paste and to make a seed into a creamy paste what you have
to do is first you have to warm it up. I have 150 grams of sesame seeds and I put
this on a pan like this, this shouldn't be a Teflon pan because
the heat is going to be really high and unfortunately the ceramic and Teflon
kind of granites, all those non-stick ones start to go bad around 250 degrees Celsius.
Yeah, around those degrees first the gases start to evaporate and
then lots of other bad things. So, I'm using stainless steel, what I'm trying to
do is I don't want to change this colors too much but warm every seed. For this is
I just need this one and as small grinder. You can use a bigger one or
blender but the blenders, there are questions about whether I can use
blender as a substitute of food processor, it very much depends on the
blender that you use guys because some suck, some are incredible, some can even
liquify me. As you can see some of the seeds start to change color because
the oil starts to get out, it somehow becomes heavier in a way.
Weight-wise, like it's harder to turn and etc, so I turn off the heat and
now then I have to be fast. I add all these sesame seeds in here, then I press.
After making the machine work for a minute, I stop it, as you can see it's hot
and it's becoming hotter, now I'm going to add three tablespoons of this is
hazelnut oil, in Turkey we have a lot of hazelnuts and we use hazelnut oil but
you can use grape-seed oil, sunflower or any oil that you have at home.
Olive oil will make it a bit heavy depending on the type, less odorless oil or
a seed oil would go better because tahini is also from seeds. What I'm going
to do also clean the edges cause it becomes thick because it's oily.
There are some questions about the gadgets I use, these small ones are
really helpful in the kitchen, the cup if it's glass and if it does have two
blades rather than one, it's a powerful machine that you can do
many things with.
First of it's going to be like a sand and it's going to become
more and more creamy. First this form is going to be like this
but you're going to wait for a little more.
After three - three and a half minutes, tahini is ready. Now, it's hotter than
before, it's amazing. Look, it was so stiff and how soft it is
right now. This is going to harden a bit because now it's really hot.
this is the tahini that you get from 150 grams of sesame seeds ,if you make it more you get
more and it smells great but the thing is when you first taste it when it's hot..
Sorry! Mmm.. It has a slight little bitterness but as it cools down that
goes away and you're left with a great taste .If you toast the seeds more the
bitterness increases so that depends like what kind of thing you like but
first I would suggest you to try a toasting it's around what I did and the
thing is this is actually how do you get the oil from the seeds and you have a
paste. For example, if we want to make a homemade nutella, what we get, we get raw
hazelnuts, we toast them for about 10 minutes and then take the skins off and
do the same process basically and then add a cocoa, chocolate or other extracts
whatever you like and you come up with Nutella.
Peanut butter is the same but
usually, they add a lot of sugar now recently the sports ones don't have any
sugar but basically this is how it works, now it's really runny, it's going to be
little less runny when it cools down totally. So this is tahini and we can make great
hummus which by adding chickpeas, lemon, garlic, a little bit of ice and for 10
minutes and here you go you get a great hummus.
We have added the video you can reach the video from here. Another thing from the
heart of Anatolia is this tahini is married to molasses when I was a child
people are only using tahini with molasses and nothing else. In the Anatolia,
there are varies, of course usage is but in Istanbul, it was not so well known then.
Where my father is from which is Cappadocia region, they had like three,
four different things, one is this thin bread, the other one is molasses,
the other one is bulgur and I want to talk about bulgur later.
So you get, let's say a tablespoon
of tahini around that much molasses first and then you start to mix it, like this.
..and here you go..
What molasses is, now you'll understand the difference of homemade tahini. What
we do we spread this on a bread when you put milk on this and drink it it could
be a breakfast for you. For example, this is carob one, just carobs and water and
nothing else, its own sugar or when it's a grape, the acidity gets reduced by some
kind of a agent which is a natural one like soil and then you filter the grape
juice and then you boil it and reduce it and it becomes pekmez and its own
word the pekmez is it would never go stiff. This is what kept Anatolia going
over the years of famine, shortage of food or wars.
Yeah when you get sick and there's no anything added,
so it's very nice. So you can do this. Another thing, Refika this is like it
would be hard for our kids to understand but we want something healthy as spread
now I have another recipe for you.
Again a tablespoon of tahini, I'm going to add two tablespoons of honey and a heap
teaspoon of cocoa and I mix it like this, this is almost done.
So.. have a taste..
you can either increase cocoa or the honey or the tahini to your taste, this
is really nice, there's just cocoa, you can always use organic cacao
No no this
one will stay as it is and you can use it like make a big batch and do it..
Bahar, would you like to taste this?
And you can like.. even though if you don't have
any children, you can use it as a dessert for yourself.
Another recipe from Anatolia, Antalya region where there's this great sea, they make something
called Hibeş and that's a mixture of tahini, lemon
juice, paprika and a bit of water time to time and that's also a great mixture, you
use this near a kebab, you can use it as a like a dip or you can use it as a meze,
you can dip your bread into it and it's really great.
Tahini, a lot of lemons, olive oil and together with a bit of yogurt becomes a
really nice salad dress as well.
I need a small break, I shot this video
that you're watching a few days ago but I had one valuable information that I
thought would be really nice to share with you, I call it the green tahini.
It's a coriander tahini and lemon mixture actually but how you do it is
you get it like a big batch of coriander and you put like 100 milliliters of
water and put it into the processor, it becomes a puree then you add 70 grams
of tahini the recipes below, I'll add the recipe there as well and then you
put salt and lemon and mix it really well and it becomes great and the thing
is this is also it's a very nice dip, like you can put chips, you can put
little köftes, you can even dip your burgers in it. It
is so nice but another upside of it is that using it this way with other herbs
or without herbs, tahini can be a great replacement for a cheese, like you have a
problem eating dairy, especially in the mornings at starts we have this thing of
like, I need to grab some cheese somewhere and it's like a high on fat
but good fat, tahini would be something like that
so with that mixture is you can use it as like a cream cheese, I've done it a
few days ago with tahini that was left. and it was so great and I wanted to share this.
So these are some of the things that you can do with tahini, I hope for
the ones who are introduced to tahini for the first time, they would like it. If
you use tahini in your own place, country or in your own kitchen in a
different way, please write it below and I want to try them all. Take
great care, I hopefully you like this video, if you like this video please also
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