Product Description
PURPOSE
WHAT IS IT?
Black Sesame are the tiny seeds of a flowering, grassy plant.
EXPERIENCE
Its seeds are just like the white sesame seeds in appearance, other than color, once they’re harvested, and dried, from the grassy plant, in terms of shape, uses, and flavor.
Black seeds have less oil but more flavor, a nuttier taste. As such, they’re used more to finish foods. In addition, their piercing color gives them a high visual aesthetic appeal.
CULINARY GEOGRAPHY
TRADITIONAL USES
- Japanese garnish
- Halva
- Bread Topping
- Chinese garinish
IMPROVISATIONAL ‘RIFFS’
- Black sesame coconut ice cream balls;
- Black sesame wonton chips;
- Black bean chocolate sesame balls - A riff on the red bean Chinese;
- Crispy lamb rolled in black sesame and Nigella seed
- Top Tapioca Pudding
THE BACKSTORY
Sesame seeds are one of the oldest domesticated crops on record, going back 5500 years in India, but its Sub-Saharan roots are why it was so popular. It’s a hugely hearty plant that grows in dry and wet conditions, and is easy for subsistance farmers to produce. The Indian “domestication” of the wild seed increased volume and consistency. Most sesame was originally grown for its seed oil.
Assyrian religious lore says that the gods drank sesame wine when they created the Earth.
The word sesame, whether in Greek, Arabic, or Latin, means, roughly, “liquid fat” or “liquid oil.”
AKA
- Afrikaans: Swart sesamsaad
- Albanian: Farat e susamit të zi
- Arabic: بذور السمسم الأسود
- Armenian: Սև քունջութի սերմեր
- Azerbaijani: Qara küncüt toxumları
- Basque: Sesamo beltzeko haziak
- Belarusian: Чорныя кунжутныя насенне
- Bengali: কালো তিলের বীজ
- Bosnian: Crni susam (sjemenke)
- Bulgarian: Черни сусамови семена
- Catalan: Llavors de sèsam negre
- Chinese (Simplified): 黑芝麻
- Chinese (Traditional): 黑芝麻
- Croatian: Crni sezam (sjemenke)
- Czech: Černý sezam
- Danish: Sorte sesamfrø
- Dutch: Zwarte sesamzaadjes
- English: Black sesame seeds
- Estonian: Mustad seesamiseemned
- Filipino (Tagalog): Itim na buto ng linga
- Finnish: Mustat seesaminsiemenet
- French: Graines de sésame noir
- Galician: Sementes de sésamo negro
- Georgian: შავი სეზამის თესლი
- German: Schwarzer Sesam
- Greek: Μαύρο σουσάμι (σπόροι)
- Gujarati: કાળા તલ
- Haitian Creole: Gren wowoli nwa
- Hebrew: שומשום שחור
- Hindi: काले तिल
- Hungarian: Fekete szezámmag
- Icelandic: Svört sesamfræ
- Indonesian: Wijen hitam
- Irish: Síolta seasaimh dubha
- Italian: Semi di sesamo nero
- Japanese: 黒ごま
- Kannada: ಕಪ್ಪು ಎಳ್ಳು
- Kazakh: Қара күнжіт тұқымдары
- Khmer: គ្រាប់ល្ងខ្មៅ
- Korean: 검은 깨
- Kurdish: Tovê sesamê reş
- Lao: ເມັດງາດຳ
- Latvian: Melnie sezama sēklas
- Lithuanian: Juodos sezamo sėklos
- Macedonian: Црн сусам (семиња)
- Malay: Bijan hitam
- Malayalam: കരിം എള്ള്
- Maltese: Żerriegħa tas-sesam iswed
- Maori: Kākano sesame pango
- Marathi: काळे तीळ
- Mongolian: Хар кунжутын үр
- Nepali: कालो तिल
- Norwegian: Sorte sesamfrø
- Pashto: تور کنجد تخمونه
- Persian (Farsi): دانه کنجد سیاه
- Polish: Czarny sezam
- Portuguese: Sementes de gergelim preto
- Punjabi: ਕਾਲੇ ਤਿਲ
- Romanian: Semințe de susan negru
- Russian: Чёрный кунжут
- Serbian: Црни сусам (семе)
- Sinhala: කළු තල
- Slovak: Čierny sezam
- Slovenian: Črni sezam
- Somali: Sisinta madow
- Spanish: Semillas de sésamo negro
- Swahili: Mbegu za ufuta mweusi
- Swedish: Svarta sesamfrön
- Tamil: கருப்பு எள்
- Telugu: నల్ల నువ్వులు
- Thai: งาดำ
- Turkish: Siyah susam
- Ukrainian: Чорний кунжут
- Urdu: کالے تل
- Uzbek: Qora kunjut urug‘lari
- Vietnamese: Hạt mè đen
- Welsh: Hadau sesame du
- Xhosa: Imbewu yesesame emnyama
- Yiddish: שוואַרץ סעסאַם זאמען
- Yoruba: Irugbin sesame dudu
- Zulu: Imbewu yesesame emnyama
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