Tahini diced salad, great for the Holidays
By Ray Hanania
Tahini diced salad
One of my favorite side dishes that is easy to make and great tasting is Tahini Diced salad.
Tahini is a sesame seed paste that is popular in Mediterranean and Middle East recipes. It’s used as a tasty sauce.
The Tahini Diced Salad consists of cucumbers, tomatoes, parsley, green onions and a mix of Tahini, lemon juice and olive oil.
Click here for a simple recipe from Ziyad Brothers to add this to your holiday menu.
Tahini is also used as a snack dish for young people. People pour the tahini in a small bowl and then add think syrup into the sauce. It’s then eaten with hand torn slices of Syrian flat bread or Pita bread, like a scoop or a bread “spoon.”
You’ll really enjoy the Tahini Diced Salad. It’s a popular and very healthy side dish for your holiday meals. Sahtein!
Tahini (Photo credit: Another Pint Please…)
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Ray Hanania is an award winning political and humor columnist who analyzes American and Middle East politics, and life in general. He is an author of several books.
Hanania covered Chicago Politics and Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992 at the Daily Southtown and the Chicago Sun-Times. He began writing in 1975 publishing The Middle Eastern Voice newspaper in Chicago (1975-1977). He later published “The National Arab American Times” newspaper (2004-2007).
Hanania writes weekly columns on Middle East and American Arab issues as Special US Correspondent for the Arab News ArabNews.com, at TheArabDailyNews.com, and at SuburbanChicagoland.com. He has published weekly columns in the Jerusalem Post newspaper, YNetNews.com, Newsday, the Orlando Sentinel, Houston Chronical, and Arlington Heights Daily Herald.
Hanania is the recipient of four (4) Chicago Headline Club “Peter Lisagor Awards” for Column writing. In November 2006, he was named “Best Ethnic American Columnist” by the New American Media. In 2009, Hanania received the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the recipient of the MT Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award. He was honored for his writing skills with two (2) Chicago Stick-o-Type awards from the Chicago Newspaper Guild. In 1990, Hanania was nominated by the Chicago Sun-Times editors for a Pulitzer Prize for his four-part series on the Palestinian Intifada.
His writings have also been honored by two national Awards from ADC for his writing, and from the National Arab American Journalists Association.
Hanania is the US Special Correspondent for the Arab News Newspaper, covering Middle East and Arab American issues. He writes for the Southwest News newspaper group writing on mainstream American issues.
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