From the kitchen

Rashi & dibs — the traditional Kurdish breakfast

Name: Rashi & dibs — the traditional Kurdish breakfast
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Kurdish
Ingredients: 6 tbsp Bayaz Tahin (stone-ground tahini); 3 tbsp date syrup (silan) or grape molasses; Warm flatbread, samoon or naan; Optional: a handful of walnuts or banana slices

5 min 2 servings

In Amedi and across Kurdistan and Iraq, this is how generations have started the day: راشي (rashi — tahini) with dibs, a dark syrup of dates or grapes. Sweet, nutty, rich — and made in five minutes. No cooking, just good ingredients.

Preparation

Spoon the tahini onto a small plate or shallow bowl.
Pour the date syrup over and around it.
Swirl once or twice with a spoon — do not mix it completely: the contrast between the nutty tahini and the sweet syrup is the whole point.
Tear off pieces of warm bread and scoop. That is it.

Tip: The classic ratio is two parts rashi to one part dibs, but every family has its own. Start there and adjust to taste.

Made with Bayaz Tahin — Every recipe here is made with our stone-ground tahini from Amedi — 100% sesame, since 1948. View the product