Mashed Potato With Tahini

"Almost like eating hummus but with a more subtle flavour."
 
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Ready In:
20mins
Ingredients:
10
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Peel and cube potatoes and boil in water till soft (As for mash potatoes).
  • Drain potatoes add Potatoes and rest of the ingredients except dressing ingredients into a processor a whiz till smooth.
  • Note: you could mash all the potato ingredients together with a potato masher for a more courser texture.
  • Pour out into a serving plate, sprinkle cumin and sumaq and drizzle with olive oil.
  • Serve as an appetizer or as a side to meat.

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Reviews

  1. I served this with turkish dumplings (manti), and the two went fabulously well together. I spooned yogurt-garlic sauce (1 cup plain yogurt, 1 T minced garlic) and vegetable oil infused with red pepper (heated 1 T crushed red pepper in 3 T veg oil on low heat until the oil had changed color) onto both the dumplings and the mashed potatoes. Yum! In the end, I opted to give this four rather than five stars, though, because while it is fabulous with other middle eastern dishes, when you eat it all on its own, I don't think it is any better than traditional mashed potatoes. It is hard to beat a whole lot of milk and butter!
     
  2. Re-rated for the Zaar World Tour. All of my favorite ingredients stirred up into a big pot and eaten with sheer delight! Even better if prepared with your own homemade tahini. Thank you for posting this delicious recipe, lemoncurd! ;) cg P.S. {{LOVED}} the sumak added into the dressing! MMMMMMMmmmm!! I would not whip the potatoes in a food processor, the texture could be ruined and potatoes turn glutinous.
     
  3. What a taste sensation! An absolutely wonderful blend of flavours. As a hummus lover, I’d have to agree with lemoncurd’s summing up of this dish: that “it’s like eating hummus but with a more subtle flavour”. I love all the ingredients in this recipe separately, but brought together: WOW! Words just fail me! This was my introduction to sumak, so in making this recipe I also discovered a wonderful new-to-me Middle Eastern ingredient! Three of us ate or – rather more accurately – totally devoured this with my Salata Arabieh Recipe #141375 and crusty bread. If you love Middle Eastern dishes, this is a must-make dish. I’ll be making this OFTEN! Thank you so much for sharing it, lemoncurd!
     
  4. These mashed potatoes were a great surprise! They look the same as traditional mash, but the taste is so distinctly meditterranean. I added a little olive oil in place of the butter in my recipe, and still got excellent reviews.
     
  5. This was such a great potato dish to serve with a middle eastern meal! I didn't use a food processor but mashed by hand instead. Next time I might add a bit more tahini, but that might be because I was using huge potatoes! I also needed to add a little milk to get them to the right consistency - again, I think size has a lot to do with it! I doubled the garlic and was very happy with the flavour - thanks for posting!
     
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