Sesame seed paste shelf life is usually 12-18 months.

Sesame sauce, also known as sesame paste, is a food product made from ground fried sesame seeds, which is flavored and consumed as a seasoning. Depending on the color of the sesame seeds used, it can be divided into white sesame paste and black sesame paste.

Sesame seed paste is yellow-brown in color, fine texture, taste, with the inherent rich aroma of sesame, not moldy, not worm. Generally used as a mix of noodles, steamed bread, bread or coleslaw and other condiments, but also for sweet cakes, sweet buns and other filling ingredients. Sesame oil is mainly used for cold and flavor plate.

Based on its use, North China and Northeast China hot pot sesame sauce is a common one, so it is also known as North sauce. The raw material of sesame sauce is refined white sesame. It has fine workmanship, golden color, smooth texture and mellow taste.

Method of making sesame sauce

1, sesame seeds first wash clean.

2, into the pot to start frying sesame seeds, the beginning of the time you can use medium heat, the first sesame seeds fried dry, and then turn to medium-low heat, fried to be able to crushed sesame seeds, sesame seeds within the color of slightly yellow, eat a mouthful of very fragrant can be.

3, fried sesame seeds cooled and poured into the funnel on the stone mill, adjust the flow, the flow is too large sesame paste will be too coarse, the flow is too small, it will dry grinding stone mill.

4, put the sesame paste into a container, such as a glass jar, cooled and stored in the refrigerator.?

5, should not be parked for too long, or the oil in the sesame paste will automatically precipitate and float to the top, resulting in the lower part of the hardening, affecting the consumption and taste.

6, sesame paste floating oil can not be completely called sesame oil. Because the sesame seeds to do sesame sauce and sesame seeds to do sesame oil frying fire is completely different, so the flavor of the oil is also different.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Sesame Seed Paste