Seed + Mill is our favorite brand of tehina/tahini/tahina.
Seed and Mill Organic Tehina (the Hebrew word for Tahini), is the best tasting tehina I’ve ever had. It is world away from that stuff in the can. Seed + Mill Organic Tehina is one of the highest-quality tehina you can buy. It is made exclusively from prized Organic Ethiopian Humera Sesame Seeds, which are said to be the finest sesame seeds available in the world. These sesame seeds are hulled, roasted and pressed into tehina in Israel, and are imported to the United States. Some Seed + Mill Tehina is also freshly-pressed and made at New York’s Chelsea Market.
There are two varieties of Tehina available by Seed + Mill, Organic Tehina and Green Tehina. The Organic Tehina is the pure tehina, perfect for hummus, tehina sauce, making tehina cookies, ice cream and more. While the Green Tehina is Tehina infused with parsley and garlic, which gives it a nice green color. This tehina is perfect for sauces, dips and more.
This review will focus on the Organic Tehina, with a review of Green Tehina coming soon.
Seed + Mill Organic Tehina is packaged in an 11.6 OZ (330 g) glass jar, when you open the jar you are hit an amazing sesame scent. I noticed that this tehina had almost no separation, unlike most other tehina, and I didn’t really have to stir it. I tried some of it, and it was amazing. This tehina blew my mind, it has a depth of flavor that is unparalleled. It is unlike any other tehina you’ve ever tried before, it will make you forget about that tahini in the can. This tahini has a rich, balanced flavor with a delicious bitterness that accentuates and helps to bring out the nutty, roasted notes of the sesame flavor of this magnificent tehina.
You may notice that this tehina looks different than other tahini you’ve had before, this tahini is a little lighter in color and thicker than some other brands. This is a high-quality, Organic, Kosher Israeli tehina, made with prized Ethiopian Humera Sesame Seeds, whereas most other brands available in the United States are darker because they are overprocessed with a greasy oil slick on top and a sludgy paste on the bottom, made with lower-quality sesame seeds imported from Mexico, India and China.
In Israel they take their tahini seriously, and most Israelis eat tehina every day, in hummus, in tehina sauce, spread on toast, drizzled on ice cream, made into halva, eaten with a spoon, served with chicken schnitzel, kebabs (shishlik), shawarma, and more. A common sweet treat is tehina mixed with some silan, also known as Date Syrup.
This Tehina will change your life. I used to use tehina only once in a while, but now I use it in dozens of recipes almost every day. Seed + Mill Organic Tehina is so versatile and is perfect for a wide variety of savory and sweet applications.
After just one taste, you’ll be hooked and you will never go back to any other brand of tehina. Seed + Mill products are available at New York City’s Chelsea Market, on Seed + Mill’s online store, and at Whole Foods stores across the Northeast, including at the Bryant Park and Montclair stores where Seed + Mill has their own carts selling their delicious, tehina, halva and spices. Seed + Mill offers over a dozen flavors of halva, various spices in partnership with La Boite spices from New York, and at their Chelsea Market stall they have sesame tehina goat milk soft serve ice cream and halva paninis made with Challah! If you are in New York, check it out sometime!
Thanks for reading, and I look forward to sharing some recipes that you can make with this delicious tehina!
