For many home cooks tahini — the Middle Eastern condiment of ground sesame seeds — is what you put in hummus. And only hummus. For Food Network personality Molly Yeh, tahini is much more than that. In ...

Use the creamy sesame seed paste in everything from cakes to drinks.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lior Lev Sercarz, founder of spice company La Boìte, considers tahini a must-have ingredient in the kitchen. “It is such a staple ...

Everyone needs a “desperation dinner,” a quick and easy dish that the whole family will love, one that can be whipped up at the last minute and can be prepared with ingredients that you always have on ...

Properly served, hummus is a grand thing to see. A cook scoops pale yellow paste into a shallow brick-colored bowl and then stirs it madly with a mortar, forcing it up against the sides of the bowl in ...

Scotcharoos are a beloved no-bake treat hailing from the Midwest. A layer of crispy puffed rice cereal gets coated in a nutty mixture of melted butterscotch chips and peanut butter, pressed into a ...

The Essential Middle Eastern Paste That’s Surprisingly Easy to Make Tahini—also known as sesame paste—is a cornerstone of Middle Eastern cooking, adding a rich, nutty flavor to everything from hummus ...

The other day, a co-worker brought in some mysterious cookies from an Armenian bakery, a little sheepish about having polished off about a third of them on the way. They were tan domes with a tight ...

Lior Lev Sercarz, founder of spice company La Boìte, considers tahini a must-have ingredient in the kitchen. “It is such a staple item in Israeli food,” says Lev Sercarz, author of “A Middle Eastern ...