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How to Make Sesame Snaps

Cutlery numbs my taste buds. I’m convinced my fingertips start to recognise flavour before any of it reaches my mouth. Eggs and guacamole on toast? My digits get to taste it first. Imagine the same breakfast with a knife and fork? Or eating a hamburger with cutlery? Sushi perhaps? Even pizza?

Look, if I’m to be perfectly honest, I think we can taste words too. Often reading a restaurant menu is the best part of the meal. Each word is like a little comet of deliciousness.

I don’t think any of this constitutes as news, except that I rarely spot people using their fingers with the same giddy determination and shamanistic frenzy I apply to my meals. Clearly, more people bow to the sophistication of a fork –  a majesty which I think is comically misplaced. There are some intriguing results out there, led by scientists, to suggest other homo sapiens behave like me. Phew. (Although it’s possible these studies were led by historians rather than gastro physicists. Nevermind).

 

 

This week’s recipe is a playful experiment for your taste buddies. Let’s munch half the batch with our fingers. And then chew the rest of the sesame snaps using a fork. Ask your taste buds to vote.

Sesame seeds morph into extraordinary little explosions of flavour in the oven. We love them for their sweet nutty smack, but also for their plant-based calcium which makes them great for growing nippers. In Hinduism, sesame is referred to as the seed of immortality. This is probably because of its pumped portfolio of plant lignans and other crazy cool protective compounds like phytooestrogens.

These sesame snaps make me feel like I’m going to live forever. And if I don’t? I’m happy to die trying.

 

 

 

Sesame Snaps

 

5 tablespoons sesame seeds

1 tablespoon rice malt syrup or maple syrup

Pinch of sea salt

 

Preheat your oven to 220C.

In a cup, mash the ingredients together with a fork. Spread the mixture over a baking tray lined with non-stick parchment as best as you can. It’s outrageously sticky, but don’t worry. The heat will help the mixture collapse.

Bake at 200-220C for 5 mins, until bubbly. You want the water to evaporate from the mixture which will give it its crunch.

Allow to solidify once cooled. Smash.

 

 

 

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4 Comments

  • Reply Christine September 15, 2017 at 9:55 am

    Hi can I use date syrup in this recipe 

    • Reply Susan Jane September 16, 2017 at 4:01 pm

      Good question. I don’t know! One way to find out! Barley malt gives similar results to the rice malt. Maple syrup is crispier (rather than chewy like the malts) so I aimgine date syrup with black sesame seeds will be scrummy. SJ

  • Reply Claire Powers October 10, 2017 at 9:48 am

    Mine got stuck to the grease proof – should I grease it with something like coconut oil or jut remove it earlier before it cools. It tastes yummy tho – will def bake again!

    • Reply Susan Jane October 10, 2017 at 11:30 am

      Darnnit! Some parchment is poorly made. It shouldn’t stick. The white parchment in Supervalu works. But the best BEST ever is “If You Care” brand of parchment, found in all health stores and trendy delis. I stock up on this stuff when I see it – saves on temper tantrums at a later date baking in the kitchen! Hope this helps. It’s a great recipe. SJ

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