• Haus@kbin.earth
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    27 days ago

    I’ve used peanut butter in place of tahini to make humm-ish before. Not bad at all.

    • trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      27 days ago

      Yeah, I use unsweetened peanut butter (effectively just mushed peanuts) in lots of recipes where tahini would normally be used.

      I still need to figure out, if I’m using tahini wrong. 😅
      Sesame always tastes bitter to me, as does tahini. Peanut butter doesn’t…

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        27 days ago

        What do you mean by “unsweetened peanutbutter”? There’s sweetened peanutbutter? Is that some kraft foods shit?

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          27 days ago

          Well, whenever I’ve talked about this in the past, there was always someone who asked “You put (sweet) peanut butter into your savory food?!”.

          Wikipedia also says that it commonly contains sweeteners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_butter

          But yeah, not sure if that’s maybe specifically a thing in the US. They do love to put sugar into everything and I just came across this article, which mentions that when PB&Js became popular in the US, sugar was still seen as good: https://www.thetakeout.com/why-americans-love-peanut-butter-best-vs-rest-of-world-1850648598/

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          27 days ago

          Just check the ingredient list on the packaging, if they have it. At least here in the Netherlands, “normal” peanut butter contains more palm fat than peanut and it contains quite some sugar as well. I can taste the sugar and dislike it, but then I grew up with “100%” peanut butter, containing only peanuts and nothing else, so I may be used to something weird compared to my countrymen.

          From what I’ve gathered, peanut butter in the USA contains a lot of sugar, too.