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I've used peanut butter in place of tahini to make humm-ish before. Not bad at all.
Roasted sunflower seeds also work great
Yeah, I use unsweetened peanut butter (effectively just mushed peanuts) in lots of recipes where tahini would normally be used.
I still need to figure out, if I'm using tahini wrong. 😅
Sesame always tastes bitter to me, as does tahini. Peanut butter doesn't...
What do you mean by "unsweetened peanutbutter"? There's sweetened peanutbutter? Is that some kraft foods shit?
In the US most brands peanut butters have added sugar. It looks like you might be in Canada and I wouldn't be surprised if the same is true there.
I think the dominant flavor is still salty, but it's been a long time since I've had Jif or Skippy.
Just check the ingredient list on the packaging, if they have it. At least here in the Netherlands, "normal" peanut butter contains more palm fat than peanut and it contains quite some sugar as well. I can taste the sugar and dislike it, but then I grew up with "100%" peanut butter, containing only peanuts and nothing else, so I may be used to something weird compared to my countrymen.
From what I've gathered, peanut butter in the USA contains a lot of sugar, too.
Well, whenever I've talked about this in the past, there was always someone who asked "You put (sweet) peanut butter into your savory food?!".
Wikipedia also says that it commonly contains sweeteners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_butter
But yeah, not sure if that's maybe specifically a thing in the US. They do love to put sugar into everything and I just came across this article, which mentions that when PB&Js became popular in the US, sugar was still seen as good: https://www.thetakeout.com/why-americans-love-peanut-butter-best-vs-rest-of-world-1850648598/
Yes bad at all.
Got a falafel with peanut butter based hummus once. left the restaurant after the first bite, more disapointing than the GOT finale