Definitions for "Sesame oil"
available in the oriental sections of most supermarkets, this oil is a concentrated source of sesame flavor. The dark variety burns easily and is usually used to enhance flavor of Asian dishes after cooking.
Buy the strong flavored kind in an Asian market, not the type for sale in health food stores for recipes in our cook books. Expensive, but a little goes a long way. The smell creates instant salivation.
an aromatic oil made from sesame seeds popular in Chinese cooking. There is no substitute; if you have none, leave it out of the recipe, although the flavor will be slightly different.
Derived from sesame seeds. A very stable source of olein (75%), stearin, palmitin, myristin, linolein, sesamin and sesamolin. These fatty acids increase sheen and lustre to dry, brittle and damaged hair and retain moisture in the skin, leaving it soft and soothed.