The recipe for these famous salted chocolate chip tahini cookies is adapted from Modern Israeli Cooking by Danielle Oron. These cookies are chewy, soft in the middle, perfectly flavored, with that slightly nutty and beautiful taste of tahini. My advice is don’t put it in the queue; don’t save it on that to-cook-one-day list, just make it, you’ll not regret. My kids devour these in seconds…
To make things a little more exotic, I used black sesame paste that I brought from the States many months ago but it turned out to be one of those ingredients that you don’t really know what to do with. It was only when I saw Danielle’s recipe and then David Lebovitz’s version that I squealed with excitement. …