Thread: Some Zankou Questions

Originally Posted by Hipcheck

After further research....the white sauce on the plate is known as Sesame Sauce, not to be confused with tahini.

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.

Originally Posted by santiclaws

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.

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.

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.

Originally Posted by santiclaws

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.

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.

Oh man...I hate beets, but those pickled ones...ooooooofa!

Originally Posted by Hipcheck

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.

That's because they add garlic, olive oil and lemon juice to make it a sauce.

Originally Posted by jerseydevil

Oh man...I hate beets, but those pickled ones...ooooooofa!

Those are turnips.

Originally Posted by Annapurna

Those are turnips.

and they are fantastic dipped in any of the sauces or in any sandwich... Seriously good.

I tried the yogurt drink once or twice...not my thing.