Nuvvu Pappu Nune - Eddhu Ganuga Nune | Bull Churned Cold Pressed White Sesame Oil

🤍 Nuvvu Pappu Nune - The Purest Expression of Sesame

Most people know sesame oil. Fewer know that the sesame seed has an outer husk and that removing it before pressing changes everything about the oil. Nuvvu Pappu Nune is made from dehulled white sesame seeds, seeds that have had their outer skin carefully removed before they go into our Eddhu Ganuga bull churned wooden press. What comes out is a lighter, cleaner, more delicate oil than any whole sesame oil can produce. This is sesame at its most refined not by chemicals or machines, but by the patient removal of the husk before the first drop is even pressed.

Just as urad becomes urad pappu when the husk is removed, nuvvulu becomes nuvvu pappu when dehulled. The husk of a sesame seed contains most of the seed's bitter compounds and darker pigments. When oil is pressed from whole sesame seeds even white ones traces of these compounds carry through into the oil, giving it a stronger, slightly bitter edge and a deeper colour.

Pressing from dehulled seeds changes this entirely. Without the husk, the oil that flows out is noticeably lighter in colour, milder and cleaner in flavour, and far less bitter on the palate. It is the same seed but a fundamentally different oil. This is why Nuvvu Pappu Nune sits in a category of its own, distinct from both our Nalla Nuvvula Nune (black sesame) and any regular whole white sesame oil.

White sesame seeds are carefully dehulled before anything else happens. Only then do they go into our traditional wooden ganuga. A bull walks in slow, steady circles, turning the wooden pestle that gently crushes the dehulled seeds at room temperature. The pale golden oil flows out naturally, is filtered, and bottled immediately nothing added, nothing removed. The extra step of dehulling before pressing is labour-intensive and time-consuming, but it is what makes this oil worth making.

Nuvvu Pappu Nune's mild, clean flavour makes it the most versatile of our three sesame oils. In the kitchen, its delicate character means it works as an everyday cooking oil without overpowering dishes ideal for tempering, sautéing, and as a finishing drizzle over rice and dal. It is the sesame oil to reach for when you want the depth of sesame without the boldness.

Its lightness also makes it an excellent external oil absorbed quickly by skin without greasiness, gentle enough for daily face and body use, and smooth enough for infant massage. Traditionally used in Telugu households as both a kitchen staple and a daily body oil, Nuvvu Pappu Nune is the one oil that genuinely does both well.

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One extra step before pressing. A completely different oil in your hands.