Sesame into a bar resembling peanut brittle and sold in stores and street corners. Sesame is a popular and essential ingredient in many Middle Eastern cuisines. Sesame seeds are made into a paste called "tahini" (used in various ways, including "hummus bi tahini") and the Middle Eastern confection "halvah". Ground and processed, the seed is also used in sweet confections. Sesame is also a common component of the Levantine spice mixture "za'atar", popular all throughout the Middle East. In South Asian, Middle Eastern, and East Asian cuisines, popular confectionery are made from sesame mixed with honey or syrup and roasted into
Red bean paste (), applies to red bean paste when used without qualifiers, although "hóngdòushā" () explicitly means "red bean paste." In Korean, "pat" (, ""V. angularis"") contrasts with "kong" (, "bean"), rather than being considered a type of it. "Kong" ("beans") without qualifiers usually means soybeans. As "so" () means "filling", the word "patso" () means ""pat" filling", with unsweetened dark-red paste as its prototype. "Dan" (, "sweet") attached to "patso" makes "danpat-so" (), the sweetened red bean paste, which is often called "danpat" (; "sweet "pat""). "Geopi" (, "hulled, skinned, peeled, shelled, etc.") attached to "pat" makes "geopipat" (), the dehulled