# Help!!! I have all this tahini!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-have-all-this-tahini/144301>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 22, 2002, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-have-all-this-tahini/144301 "2002-12-22T01:57:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-have-all-this-tahini/144301/1 "2002-12-22T01:57:19Z")

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I bought a jar of tahini for the sole purpose of making hummus. Well, the hummus is done, but I’m stuck with this GIANT (I’m serious, they didn’t have a smaller one) jar of tahini.:eek: There are no recipes on it, and everything I don’t have any decent cookbooks.

Does anyone know of something I can do with this tahini? Any good recipes?

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**Author:** ![carrie\_nation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@carrie\_nation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrie_nation)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-have-all-this-tahini/144301/2 "2002-12-22T02:22:11Z")

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I don’t know if you are familiar with the Epicurious website, but if you go there and put in “tahini” as your keyword and do a recipe search, you should find a bunch of recipes–when I did it, I found over 30 with tahini in the title.

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**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-have-all-this-tahini/144301/3 "2002-12-22T03:23:40Z")

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It’s good on toast, for breakfast.

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**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-have-all-this-tahini/144301/4 "2002-12-22T04:17:32Z")

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Google for _halvah_ recipes, a splendid candy-like stuff made with tahini. Think peanut butter fudge, only tasting of sesame seeds.

(I have a recipe but it’s pretty bad, way too floury and _not right_. Just haven’t gotten around to looking up a better one.)

Veb

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**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-have-all-this-tahini/144301/5 "2002-12-23T14:47:04Z")

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Thanks.

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**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-have-all-this-tahini/144301/6 "2002-12-23T19:16:35Z")

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yeah, me too.  
i made baba ghanoush and halva  
(i used equal quantities of honey and tahini and just made it like fudge, seemed to work ok.)