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Tahini

Also called tehina, sesame paste, tahina and téhina

Tahini is a creamy condiment sauce made from ground sesame seeds. Cooks use it in baking, dressings, and paste blends, and pair it with bread, lemon juice, garlic, or honey.

Made from
Sesame seed
Part used
Seed
Texture
Creamy
Cooked most in
Asia
Tahini, prepared

Photo: Gilabrand · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use tahini

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Bake
  • Dressing
  • Paste blend

Goes well with

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture

  • Creamy

Nutrition

What 100 g of tahini holds

Per 100 g, raw. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 19%Fat 52%Carbohydrate 28%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of tahini, raw
Energy570 kcal · 2,385 kJ
Protein18 g
Fat48 g
of which saturated6.7 g
Carbohydrate26 g
Fibre9.3 g
Sodium74 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of tahini, raw: minerals and vitamins
Potassium414 mg
Calcium420 mg
Iron2.5 mg
Magnesium96 mg
Zinc4.6 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)3 µg
Folate98 µg
Other forms

Protein 19%Fat 58%Carbohydrate 23%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of tahini, other form
Energy592 kcal · 2,477 kJ
Protein17 g
Fat53 g
of which saturated7.4 g
Carbohydrate22 g
Fibre4.7 g
Sodium35 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of tahini, other form: minerals and vitamins
Potassium459 mg
Calcium141 mg
Iron4.4 mg
Magnesium95 mg
Zinc4.6 mg
Vitamin C4.2 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)3 µg
Folate98 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (foods 169410, 168604), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where tahini is cooked

1 dish in the catalogue uses tahini. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

  • Syria 1

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list tahini among their ingredients.

Origins

  1. The 1200s

    A 13th-century Arabic cookbook included tahini in a hummus recipe.

  2. The 1300s · Western Asia

    A 14th-century writer described tahini eaten with date honey in the Middle East.

  3. 1940 · Northern America

    By 1940, tahini was sold in North American health food stores.

On the table

Dishes made with tahini

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

  • Bāṭarsh

    Syria

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include tahini.

Family

Related forms

Made from
sesame seed (ground)

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What tahini is called

Names in 70 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Tahín · pasta de sésamo · pasta de sesamo · tahine

  • French

    tahini · tahin · tahina · téhina

  • Italian

    tahina

  • Portuguese

    tahine · Taíne · tahin · tahini

  • German

    Tahina · Tahin · Tahini · Goma

  • Dutch

    tahin · tahini · tachina · techina

  • Greek

    Ταχίνι · Τασιή

  • Turkish

    tahin

  • Russian

    тахини

  • Polish

    tahini

  • Arabic

    طحينة · راشي · الراشي · الطحينية

  • Persian

    ارده · ارده (غذا)

Show all 70 languages

  • acm

    راشي · رهش

  • Afrikaans

    tahini

  • Akan

    tahini · tehina · tahina · téhina

  • Akan

    tahini · tehina · tahina · téhina

  • Armenian

    Թահին

  • azb

    ارده

  • Azerbaijani

    Tahini

  • Basque

    tahini · sesamo pasta

  • Belarusian

    тахіні

  • Bulgarian

    Тахан

  • Cantonese

    麻醬

  • Catalan

    tahina

  • Chinese

    芝麻酱 · 芝麻醬 · 麻汁

  • Croatian

    Tahini

  • Czech

    tahina

  • dag

    tahini · tehina · tahina · téhina

  • Danish

    tahini

  • dga

    tahini · tehina · tahina · téhina

  • Egyptian Arabic

    طحينه · Tehina

  • Esperanto

    sezama pasto

  • Estonian

    tahhiini

  • Ewe

    tahini · tehina · tahina · téhina

  • Finnish

    tahini · tahina · tahine · seesamtahna

  • Frafra

    tahini · tehina · tahina · téhina

  • Ga

    tahini · tehina · tahina · téhina

  • Galician

    Tahini · Tahina · Pasta de sésamo

  • gpe

    tahini · tehina · tahina · téhina

  • Hausa

    tahini · tehina · tahina · téhina

  • Hebrew

    טחינה

  • Hindi

    ताहिनी

  • Hungarian

    tahini

  • hyw

    Թահին (քունջութի մածուկ)

  • Igbo

    Tahini · tehina · tahina · téhina

  • Indonesian

    Tahini

  • Japanese

    タヒーナ · タヒーニ · タヒニ · 白タヒーナ

  • Javanese

    Tahini

  • Kannada

    ತಹೀನಿ

  • Korean

    참깨 소스

  • kus

    tahini · tehina · tahina · téhina

  • Latvian

    tahini

  • Lithuanian

    tahinis · tahini · sezamų pasta

  • Macedonian

    Таан

  • Malay

    Tahini

  • Malayalam

    ടഹിനി

  • Mossi

    tahini · tehina · tahina · téhina

  • Nigerian Pidgin

    tahini · tehina · tahina · téhina

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    tahini

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    tahini

  • Punjabi

    ਤਾਹੀਨੀ

  • Romanian

    tahini

  • Serbian

    Тахини

  • Swedish

    tahini

  • Thai

    ทาฮีนี · เฏาะฮีนะฮ์

  • Ukrainian

    тахіні

  • Welsh

    Tahini · tahini · tahina · ardeh

  • wlx

    tahini · tehina · tahina · téhina

  • Wu Chinese

    芝麻酱

  • Yoruba

    tahini · tehina · tahina · téhina

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q383389

Photos

Photo: Gilabrand · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons