Badia Hulled Sesame Seed, 16 oz

Hulled white sesame seeds — the everyday pantry seed for Chinese, Japanese, and Middle Eastern cooking. Hulling removes the bitter outer coat, leaving a clean, sweet, nutty seed that toasts to gold and grinds smooth into tahini.

Common Uses

Grind into tahini for hummus, baba ganoush, and halva. Coat the outside of sesame chicken, sesame balls (jian dui), and sesame shrimp toast. Sprinkle over stir-fried bok choy, cold sesame noodles, and bibimbap. Press onto burger buns, bagels, and bread sticks before baking. Toast and crush into furikake, dukkah, or za'atar. Stir into honey for sesame brittle and Greek pasteli.

Cuisine Context

The neutral, universal sesame — at home in tahini-based Levantine cooking, Chinese stir-fries and dim sum, Japanese rice toppings, and Korean banchan. The 16 oz size is the working pantry quantity for anyone making tahini or baking sesame breads regularly.

Pro Tip

For homemade tahini, toast the seeds gently until just blonde — not brown — then blend with a neutral oil in stages. Over-toasting turns the paste bitter and gritty.

Ships from Doral, FL.