Dinner Tonight: Hash Browned Potatoes With Sesame Seeds
"They could take sesame seeds off the market and I wouldn't even care. I can't imagine five years from now saying, 'Remember sesame seeds? What happened? All the buns are blank!' " —The late, great Mitch Hedberg
I pretty much agreed with comedian extraordinaire Mitch Hedberg until last night. I had no use for sesame seeds. During the past three years, I’d probably only encountered the little guys sprinkled on hamburger buns. They didn’t seem to have much flavor.
Luckily, I was flipping through one of my favorite cookbooks, The Courier-Journal Kentucky Cookbook, and came across this simple recipe. Apparently sesame seeds like high heat, because it helps them lend deep flavor to this kitchen classic potato dish. Cissy Gregg, the author of this 1956 recipe for the newspaper, pretty much said it best, "It is remarkable what the few sesame seeds do to this simple dish." Sesame seeds need that kind of encouragement now and then.
Hash Browned Potatoes with Sesame Seeds
- serves 3 to 4 -Ingredients
2 potatoes, peeled, and chopped into little squares
1/4 cup butter
1/3 cup sesame seeds
1/2 onion, minced
1/4 cup heavy cream
Salt and pepper
Procedure
1. Boil the potato squares until just tender.
2. Add the sesame seeds and onion. Cook until slightly browned
3. Toss in the potatoes, cream, and salt and pepper to taste. Cook until golden brown and delicious.
Bonus: Here's a YouTube video of Hedberg doing his sesame seed material. Contains strong language. NSFW.
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3 Comments:
add the sesame seeds and onion to what? to a frying pan, and not the potato squares, I assume?
i8alot at 1:35AM on 10/06/07
If you've eaten hummus in the last three years, you've had sesame. Hummus without loads of tahini is just chickpea purée. And our favorite Asian cuisines rely heavily on sesame oil. We whities don't use it much in our traditional repertoire, but that doesnt mean it's an underused or under rated ingredient. I love the stuff. One of my favorite things to eat for breakfast is sesame-honey bars from the Korean grocers in my neighb.
seyo at 11:10AM on 10/06/07
I freaking love sesame seeds.
MichaelNatkin at 11:24PM on 10/07/07