Are you already bored with your usual peanut butter? Want something healthier and creamier? Wanted a peanut butter that suites every dish you want? Try the new tahini butter then. It will make your dishes more fabulous and healthier. For people who have peanut allergies, then this tahini butter suits your lifestyle, and it’s gluten-free too.
People get confused between sesame seed butter and sesame seed paste. These two are not really the same thing. To make sesame seed paste (which is known as tahini), you have to mix the sesame seeds with olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, salt, and/or spices and herbs and blend them all together in a food processor. Bu with sesame seed butter, you have to roast it in a very low heat in a skillet. This process will release its nutty flavour. After this process, it is processed inside a millstone to make it into smoother, creamier, and aromatic tahini butter.
Your sesame seed butter is rich in protein, calcium, antioxidants and fibre. It will provide your body’s daily requirements of vitamins, and nutrients. All these nutrients present in one food will boost your energy the whole day. It will help neutralize blood sugar levels and keep it stable, and makes you feel full. This means it helps you lose weight (of course, if you avoid eating sugary, fatty, oily and unhealthy foods).
A tablespoon of sesame seed butter has 4 grams of protein, 10 grams of fat, 104 calories, 1.5 grams of fiber, no sugar and cholesterol in it. The fats in this tahini butter are mostly unsaturated (or good fats), this includes omega-3 that helps reduce cases of heart diseases and inflammation. Not only that, it has vitamin E and Bs, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, and copper.
All plants naturally have phytosterols which helps lower trigycerides in our body and it stimulates and boosts our immune system and prevent occurrence of cancer. Another one is the lignans, fibers in plants, that helps lower cholesterol and blood pressure of a person. The antioxidant that is present in tahini butter helps reduce radicals that prevent cancer cell mutation.
Don’t limit what your tahini butter by just spreading them on your bread. Jazz them up. Here are lists of how to enjoy your sesame seed butter.
- Baked Potato – add a nutty flavour with your crispy in the outside and soft in the inside baked potatoes. A healthy meal for you and your family.
- Spinach and Asparagus – sautee these two veggies, once it’s cooked add 1-2 tablespoon of tahini butter.
- Toasted Bread – toast a whole wheat bread, spread tahini butter and add your favourite on it.
- Smoothie – weather it’s a fruit or veggie smoothie you have in there, add 2 tablespoon of tahini butter.
- Sandwich – why not mix your favourite jelly and tahini butter in a sandwich? It’s already a healthy meal.
- Blanch veggies – gather all of your favourite veggies, clean it up, peel, and slice. Dip it in a tahini butter mixed with a spoonful of water, a pinch of pepper and salt. You will enjoy the nutty and a bit spicy flavour of tahini butter dip.
Just like your tahini paste, tahini butter is as flexible and versatile as it gets. You can even use this as your cupcake and cake filling. For sure you will love it even more.