It's definitely tahini. It looks like tahini, it smells like tahini, it tastes like tahini, and it's made out of sesame seeds. It's tahini, I don't care what the people at Zankou want to call it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hipcheck
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It's definitely tahini. It looks like tahini, it smells like tahini, it tastes like tahini, and it's made out of sesame seeds. It's tahini, I don't care what the people at Zankou want to call it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hipcheck
Yeah, just to clarify my earlier post, I don't frequent Zankou so I was speaking generically. My experience in Lebanese restaurants taught me that the garlic stuff is called toum, and some places make it like a thick sauce, while others make it drier like a paste. Tahini is a completely different and unrelated (other than also being delicious) thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by santiclaws
The stuff in the small container is toum (garlic sauce). The other, darker, sauce is tahini (sesame paste).
Ok, who has some good recipes so i can make this at home. I am too far away to get my Zankou fix.
I dont know...the tahini I buy from the mideastern grocery by my house and use to make hummus tastes no where near as good as Zankous.Quote:
Originally Posted by santiclaws
Oh man...I hate beets, but those pickled ones...ooooooofa!
That's because they add garlic, olive oil and lemon juice to make it a sauce. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hipcheck
Those are turnips. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by jerseydevil
and they are fantastic dipped in any of the sauces or in any sandwich... Seriously good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Annapurna
I tried the yogurt drink once or twice...not my thing.
I miss Zankou, I was a regular at the Pasadena and Glendale locations depending where I was when I got hungry. Wish they had one down here in San Diego.
