Tahini or Sesame Sauce 芝麻酱: 凉面生菜

I have once tried the salad in sesame sauce in Taipei and love it so much. This creamy and rich dressing is a welcomed to my limited repertoire of salad dressing mostly vinaigrette and lemon flaxseed oil.
Making the sesame paste is very easy and no reason that I should buy the bottled sauce, especially comes to 'fat and oil', I take extreme caution to make sure they are not heated. Good oil is crucial to our body but rancid oil is totally the opposite. Most recipe required that the sesame are toasted to yield that aromatic flavor, but for preserving the oil in the seed for its maximum health benefit, you don't have to toast the sesame seeds. Make just sufficient to use it all at once instead of storing it up.
You can make the basic paste (100% sesame seeds blended up with some oil), then add variation to make it oriental or middle eastern flavor which also called tahini. It's a wonderful sauce to dress your salad, condiment, dipping or even bread spread. Perfect replacement to peanut butter! The tahini is one of the main ingredient to make hummus.

Oriental: Sesame paste

• 2 cups White Sesame seeds (unhulled)
• 1/2 cup Olive oil
• pinch   Sea salt
• 1/2 tsp Soya sauce (optional when use with savory cooking)
• 1/2 tsp brown sugar/ cane sugar
  Method: use coffee/spice grinder to grind the sesame seed into fine paste, add all other ingredient and blend till all combine

Middle Eastern: Tahini

2 cup White sesame seeds (hulled)

3 gloves garlic, crushed

1/2 teaspoon kosher salt

2 tablespoons olive oil

1/4 cup lemon juice

1 teaspoon parsley, finely chopped (optional)

Oriental noodle salad

Bread spread

Hummus, Dipping sauce