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sesame oil
noun
- a yellow oil expressed from the seeds of the sesame, used in cooking, as a vehicle for medicines, and in the manufacture of margarine, soap, and cosmetics.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sesame oil1
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Example Sentences
Cookbook author Carolyn Phillips transforms a staid bird with a little help from soy sauce, rice wine, toasted sesame oil, and plenty of garlicThis has been my family’s go-to holiday turkey ever since we moved back from Taiwan in the mid-’80s.
Imagine smoky green beans and shishito peppers tossed with buttermilk, chile paste, sesame oil, garlic — a rousing kitchen sink of recruits.
A great new Korean restaurant sets itself apart from the packSure enough, his steamed egg custard, fragrant with sesame oil, gets finished with bird’s-eye chiles, fish sauce and lime juice — a very Thai touch.
Marinate cubes of beef, chicken, pork or pieces of tempeh or halved mushrooms in soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil, garlic, ginger and coriander before threading them onto skewers and throwing them on the grill.
I topped it with shredded turkey and cilantro and scallion greens and sesame oil, and it turned out pretty nicely!
Sesame oil is also cheaper and easier to produce, adds Caldecott, but “a lot of people find coconut oil more palatable.”
Mix soy sauce, molasses, broth, salt, and sesame oil together, along with 1-2 tablespoons of the cooking liquid.
Mix sesame oil, soy sauce, sugar, sesame seeds, garlic, and pepper in a bowl.
Sauté the shiitake mushrooms in the soy sauce, sesame oil, and minced garlic.
Soy-Bean and Mung Bean Sprouts Seasoned with Sesame Oil by Madhur Jaffrey This is sesame noodles without the noodles.
Foreign fats like cottonseed oil, sesame oil, or oleomargarine may be substituted for or added to pure butter.
In the presence of sesame oil it is colored red by transmitted light, and blue by reflected light.
They are also heavily oiled with sesame oil, and need degreasing.
Sesame-oil is mentioned by Pliny in many places as in use in India for medicinal purposes: as, xiii.
During the game, they keep by them a vase containing nut, or sesame oil, for olive oil is not known in this country.
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