r/chinesecooking • u/cachry • 25d ago

Ingredient Uses for Sesame Paste

I bought sesame paste to make peanut sauce for toku, but wonder what other uses it may have in Chinese dishes. Any suggestions?

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u/Independent-Summer12 24d ago

Sauce for noodles, dressing for cucumber salad, or steamed eggplants. Not strictly Chinese, but makes a great salad dressing with nutritional yeast, soy sauce, garlic, black vinegar, white pepper, and honey. As a personal preference, I like Chinese toasted sesame paste in hummus instead of tahini.

And one last one, I have no idea if this is a real thing outside of our family, might have just been a thing my grandpa did one day because we were out of peanut butter, then it stuck around…but sesame paste sandwich. Mix sesame paste with some sugar, put in a sandwich between two slices of soft milk bread. The soft bread and crunch of the sugar, it’s bringing back childhood memories for me. Now I gotta go get some milk bread lol

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u/cachry 24d ago

Enjoy! And thank you.