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Sesame Oil 1L

From Tamil Nadu

£9.95
1kg

VAT-free (zero-rated food)

Industrial sesame oil is extracted with hexane at 200°C. Ours is cold-pressed in a wooden chekku — a stone and wood mortar turned by a slow-walking bull or a low-rpm motor — at under 40°C, the way every South Indian hous…

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Industrial sesame oil is extracted with hexane at 200°C. Ours is cold-pressed in a wooden chekku — a stone and wood mortar turned by a slow-walking bull or a low-rpm motor — at under 40°C, the way every South Indian household oil was made before the war.

The oil that comes out is dark, fragrant, and unrefined. It is also the reason a proper kara kuzhambu tastes nothing like the version made with sunflower oil.

Sourcing

Method
Wooden chekku (cold-pressed)
Temperature
Under 40°C
Refining
None — raw oil only

How to use

In the kitchen.

  • 01Drizzle on hot rice with salt and a curry — the simplest Tamil meal there is.
  • 02Use as the base oil for kuzhambu, puli inji, vatha kuzhambu.
  • 03Mix with podi and gingelly for an instant idli dip.

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