With rich industry knowledge and experience, we are engaged in offering a wide range of Sesame Seed. The offered seed has high medicinal properties and is well known for its remarkable features. At our premises, this sesame seed is cleaned and processed as per the industry set standards. In addition to this, we offer this sesame seed in safe packaging material and at most genuine price.
Product Description:
Sesame seeds are tiny, flat oval seeds with a nutty taste and a delicate, almost invisible crunch. They come in a host of different colors, depending upon the variety, including white, yellow, black and red. Sesame seeds add a nutty taste and a delicate, almost invisible, crunch to many Asian dishes. They are also the main ingredients in tahini (sesame seed paste) and the wonderful Middle Eastern sweet call halvah. They are available throughout the year.
The sesame seeds are extremely rich in calcium and are useful in calcium deficiency. Natural sesame seeds are largely served in bakery products such as breads, bread sticks, cookies, candies, pasta, vegetables & curry dishes. The toasted variety of natural sesame seeds are used in chocolate, ice-cream and halva.
- Sesame seed paste is used in a variety of dishes
- Tahini-based sauces are common in Arab and Israeli restaurants as a side dish or as a garnish, usually including lemon juice, salt and garlic, and thinned with water
- Another middle east dish that uses sesame paste is Baba ganoush
- This dish uses roasted Aubergine (egg plant), garlic, ground cumin, lemon juice and salt
- Sesame paste is a popular condiment for meat and vegetables in Middle Eastern cuisine
- It is also a main ingredient in soups
- As a spread, tahini can replace peanut butter on bread, though the flavor and texture are quite different.
- In Iraq and some gulf countries, tahini is mixed with date syrup (rub) to make a sweet dessert usually eaten with bread
- Sesame paste is becoming more common in European cuisine and can be found as an ingredient in some pre packaged sandwiches
- Health benefits
- Hulled sesame seeds does not grind the whole sesame seed and because of this it does not contain as much calcium, protein and vitamins as unhulled
- Unhulled tahini is made from the whole sesame seed and it the most nutritionally packed type of sesame paste
- Sesame paste is a good source of essential fatty acids (EFA), these EFA's are used in helping to maintain healthy skin
- Because one of the ingredients in sesame paste is sesame oil it has quite a high calorie content
- Because of this tahini should be used in moderation
- The good news is the majority of fats in tahini are unsaturated rather than saturated
- Tahini is a source of vitamin E which helps to reduce the rate of ageing in body cells
- Sesame seeds are also a good source of the amino acid Methionine