Doctors say that grape molasses has more nutritional value than honey. They also point out that it has a big importance for pregnants, babies and children, as it is rich in calcium and potassium. It’s a great source of energy. Thay say that 200gr molasses is equal to 1550gr milk or 350gr meat in terms of calorie they contain.
Besides having a big effect on bone development (for children), it has also curative effects on anaemia, asthenia, debility.
Molasses is not made from just grapes, it is also made from fig and mulberry. They all have different flavor, but I love grape molasses the most.
In these cold Winter days, what we eat is as important as the ways of getting warm. In Turkey, although most parents try to persuade their children to eat some molasses especially in the morning before going to school, but generally they can not succeed. Children don’t want to eat it as they find it too dense and too sweet. However, there is a very easy method to have them eat this nutritive syrup: Mixing it with tahini!
When you put this grape molasse and tahini mixture before your children, they won’t refuse it, they can even want some more. Dipping a piece of bread into this mixture will make their breakfast indispensable. After eating grape molasses with tahini, when they go out even on a snowy day, they won’t feel the cold.
As we know how it is beneficial for our body, we often give the grape molesses and tahini mixture a priority in our breakfast.
Tahin Pekmez
Ingredients
• ½ cup grape molasses
• ¼ cup tahini (sesame paste)
Combine these two very well and eat by dipping bread into this mixture. Then you’ll never feel cold and become more healthy with a very natural energy source.
20 Comments on "Grape Molasses with Tahini"
This sounds so healthy and delicious too. I love your picture.
How pretty! I’ve never heard of grape molasses before. I’ll have to keep an eye out for it!
Never heard of this either…looks delicious! Thanks for the nutritional content.
Another new one on me – interesting!
I have never heard of all the different types of molasses. Now I want to go see if we have a specialty store that carries any of them!
This is a first for me and it sounds like a really unusual recipe.
Grape molasses is new to me, too! I wonder where I can find it? I’d love to try it spread on toast . . . mmmmm!
Interesting. I was just wondering what to do with the rest of the tahini sauce.
Natasha – Thanks so much. I love it too.
Joie de vivre, cakeness, Daily Spud,Vanessa, Jo and Tangled Noodle – Infact, molasses of grape is the most common and favorite one among the other types. I hope you can find it there. I wonder what molasses you have there.
It will be really delicious on toast. You should certainly try it.
Pigpigscorner – you know what to do know
Wow! This new to me. I never heard of it before. It will be interesting tasting it. Thanks for showing us this part of your cuisine.
I’ve never seen grape molasses but I love the flavor of blackstrap molasses. I’m going to give that a try with the tahini. Great recipe idea!
Zerrin, you got me curious so I went and looked it up. This is what I found on american molasses. the same as yours? Doesn’t sound so?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molasses
mely – I’m sure you’ll like it. I hope you can find grape molasses there.
Maggie – I have no idea of blackstrap molasses, but tahini goes very well with this kind of “syrup”.
Vanessa – No my friend, that’s not the same. You can search it as “pekmez”, that’s how we call it in Turkish. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekmez
Wow, that looks fantastic – I’m off to the market to pick up some grape molasses – I made need to do a post on different types of molasses. Thanks so much for sharing!
Grape molasses is also known as “Musto,” “Pekmez,” and “Petimezi.” It can be found in Middle-Eastern markets. It is also delicious on yogurt and is used in baked goods.
It is a very different taste from blackstrap molasses or American molasses. It is intensely sweet, yet tart all at the same time. Commercially made Musto is heavier than home made. Home made is not hard to do, just very time consuming. But well worth the effort!
Lea- Thank you so much for these information about grape molasses.
hey guyz.
. it’s awesome but it has a lot of calories , so dont over eat it if u dont practice regularly.
molasses and tahini is very popular here in egypt . i’ve just had some
This is wonderful. As a health conscious American newly arrived in Saudi Arabia, I was looking for a substitute for the blackstrap molasses I am accustomed to taking to keep my iron levels high. I think grape molasseswill be the answer. I’m going to buy some today. Thanks for the info.
I just made grape molasses! I had never heard of it before today. A neighbor brought me a large box of concord grapes and I had already made plenty of grape jelly for this season and wondered what else I could do with it. I searched the internet and found that I could make this molasses by simply extracting the juice and adding sugar and then cooking until less than half the volume. I now have a large container of delicious molasses to bake with! Now I will purchase some tahini to go with it!
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