Sesame

Sesame is a plant grown primarily for its oil-rich seeds. The small, cream-white sesame seed is used whole in cooking for its rich nutty flavour, and also yields a cooking oil. Sesame seeds are sometimes added to bagels and the top of hamburger buns. Sesame seeds are baked into crackers, often in the form of sticks. Sesame plants are also known as til in Hindi and benne in some languages of Africa.

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Sesame seeds can be made into a paste called tahini (used in hummus) and a Middle Eastern confection called halvah. In sections of the Middle East and East Asia, popular treats are made from sesame mixed with honey or syrup and roasted (called pasteli in Greece). Sesame flavor (through oil and seeds (roasted and plain)) are also very popular in Korean cuisine. You can also see sesame seeds sprinkled onto some Sushi style foods. East Asian cuisines, like Chinese cuisine uses sesame seeds and oil in some dishes, such as the dim sum dish, sesame seed balls ().

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Japanese cuisine uses sesame seeds to make goma-dofu (胡麻豆腐) which is made from sesame paste and ivy root powder.

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In Korean cuisine, the leaves of the sesame plant are eaten fresh with dishes such as bulgogi and hoe. It is also pickled and eaten together with many other rice dishes.

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The seeds are rich in manganese, copper, and calcium, and also contain Vitamin B1 (thiamine) and Vitamin E (tocopherol).

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Seed: A seed is the ripened ovule of gymnosperm or angiosperm plants. The importance of the seed relative to more primitive forms of reproduction and dispersal is attested to by the success of these two groups of plants in dominating the landscape....

Cooking oil: Cooking oil is purified fat of plant or animal origin, which is liquid at room temperature....

Bagel: The bagel (or sometimes beigel, in Poland also bajgiel, bajgel, precel, obwarzanek) is a food traditionally made of yeasted wheat dough in the form of a roughly hand-sized ring which is boiled and then baked. The result is a dense, chewy, doughy interior with a browned and sometimes crisp exterior....

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