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Best Dukkah for home cooking

What Dukkah is for, which kitchens use it, and where to find a jar worth cooking with.

Why cooks start here

Egypt's crushed picnic: hazelnut or chickpea, sesame, coriander, cumin, and oil-soaked bread.

In the International Cuisines books, Dukkah is not decoration. Add it where the recipe puts it: early if it needs fat and time, late if it is perfume.

Taste Dukkah before you empty the spoon. Fresh jars smell like themselves; tired ones smell like dust. Buy the smallest amount you will finish.