Pensa Bio Cold Pressed Sesame Oil bottles one of humanity’s oldest culinary oils in its most honest form: 0.75 litres pressed slowly from raw sesame seeds without heat, keeping the seed’s delicate, nutty character and pale golden colour intact. This is the gentle, unroasted style of sesame oil — subtler than the dark toasted version, and far more versatile for it — an everyday oil with several thousand years of history behind every pour.

The elder statesman of oils

Sesame was among the first crops ever pressed for oil, treasured across Mesopotamia, India and China alike, and its light-pressed oil remains a daily staple across half the world. The unroasted style matters: where toasted sesame oil is a potent finishing seasoning, cold pressed sesame oil from raw seeds is mild enough to dress, sauté and bake with — nutty in whisper rather than shout, with a smooth, clean body.

Why choose this cold pressed sesame oil

Pensa Bio presses its sesame oil cold and leaves it unrefined, so the seed’s subtle aroma survives to the bottle. The 0.75L format matches the oil’s fresh-pressed nature — generous for daily use, finished while the delicate notes still sing.

How to use

• Whisk into dressings with rice vinegar and ginger
• Sauté vegetables at gentle and medium heat
• Build marinades for tofu, fish and chicken
• Drizzle over grain bowls, noodles and salads
• Enrich hummus, tahini sauces and dips

The Asian-inspired vinaigrette is the gateway: this oil whisked with rice vinegar, a little soy sauce and grated ginger dresses noodle salads, slaws and grain bowls with quiet authority — sesame present, nothing overpowered. In the pan it handles everyday sautéing gracefully, lending stir-fried greens a soft nutty backdrop; in marinades it carries garlic and citrus deep into tofu and fish. And because it is pressed from the same seed, it folds naturally into hummus and tahini-based sauces, deepening them from within.

Shop Pensa Bio Cold Pressed Sesame Oil within our functional foods collection at Sattva Health Shop, or learn more about the producer at the official Pensa Bio site.

Store the bottle in a cool, dark cupboard away from the hob, where the unrefined oil keeps its delicacy for months. Cooks who keep both sesame styles — this gentle pressing for cooking and dressing, a small dark bottle of toasted for the final flourish — hold the complete sesame vocabulary, and this litre-short bottle is the working half of the pair. Ancient seed, patient press, modern table: some staples never needed improving, only protecting, and this is one pressed proof of it.

A final pairing from the oil’s homelands: warm noodles, a spoonful of this cold pressed sesame oil, spring onions and a pinch of salt — comfort food in four ingredients, ready before the kettle cools. Staples this ancient know every shortcut worth keeping, and this bottle carries them all.

From the world’s oldest oil crop to tonight’s dressing bowl — a shorter journey than it sounds, and a better one than most. Pour, whisk, taste: the seed does the rest, exactly as it has for millennia.

Delivered across Malta and Gozo

Order Pensa Bio Cold Pressed Sesame Oil from Sattva Health Shop for prompt delivery anywhere in Malta and Gozo. Shop online today and pour five thousand years of flavour.