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Sesame

Sesame paste

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Cooked with in 27 dishes across 11 food worlds

The Horn · 1 dish

  • Xalwo

North Africa · 2 dishes

  • Feseekh, and the one recipe in this atlas you must not cook
  • Ta'ameya

The Levant and Anatolia · 2 dishes

  • Hummus Bi Tahina
  • Sumaqiyeh

The Gulf and Arabia · 2 dishes

  • Luqaimat
  • Shuwa

The Indian subcontinent · 3 dishes

  • Doh nei-iong
  • Hah mangxo
  • Gutti vankaya kura, also cooked as baghare baingan

The Sinosphere · 5 dishes

  • Beijing Copper-Pot Lamb Hotpot
  • Liangpi (凉皮)
  • Char siu, honey-glazed roast pork
  • Dan dan noodles (担担面)
  • Laziji (辣子鸡), Chongqing "chicken amid chillies"

Korea and Japan · 2 dishes

  • Jingisukan, Hokkaido's settler grilled lamb
  • Kongip-kimchi

Central Asia and the steppe · 4 dishes

  • Ishlekli
  • Obi Non (Samarkand Patyr)
  • Samsa
  • Sumalak

The Mediterranean · 1 dish

  • Flaounes and Pilavuna

Mesoamerica · 2 dishes

  • Mole Poblano
  • Mole de Xico

North America · 3 dishes

  • Benne wafers
  • California roll
  • Kogi-style Korean short rib taco
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