Tahini Sauce Recipe – 3 Ingredients
Posted: 07/29/2014
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This isn’t straight-up tahini — it’s a deliciously smooth sauce made from tahini, lemon juice, and garlic. It will be your new favorite!
You might wonder why I have a recipe on my site for tahini sauce when a drop of it could send my son, N, to the ER with an anaphylactic reaction because of the sesame seeds in tahini.
This could be explained in three ways:
- I’m a risk taker (except I’m SO not).
- I’m a terrible mom. (Nah. I’m okay. Usually.)
- We freaking love the stuff. <– *dingdingding!*
Okay. We love it and we’re verrrrry careful.
However. I probably won’t be making it often because a 1 and 1/2-year-old’s allergies combined with my crazy = a stressful event.
Update: We’ve learned more about the severity of N’s allergies and I NEVER make this anymore. I miss it but nothing is worse risking that precious life. Food allergies are serious business. Eat some tahini for me, please?
This tahini sauce has three ingredients (4 counting water). It’s so easy to make!
Don’t get this tahini sauce mixed up with plain tahini — which is paste made from sesame seeds. Tahini is similar to peanut butter but with sesame seeds instead of peanuts. It’s thicker than this sauce, which is made with tahini, garlic, lemon juice, and water.
This tahini sauce is perfect for dipping a variety of meat dishes such as shish tawook, beef kafta, chicken kofta, or chicken shawarma drumsticks. It’s also great for dipping vegetables in as well. I love it with homemade falafel.
How to Make Tahini Sauce in three easy steps:
- Gather ingredients – tahini, lemon juice, garlic, water.
- Blend together in a blender until smooth, scraping down sides if needed.
- Pour out and serve! That’s it!!!
Love homemade sauces?
Homemade is so much better! Easy, convenient, fresh, and economical, with no added preservatives or flavor enhancers. Try:
- Homemade Tzatziki Recipe (Cucumber Yogurt Sauce)
- Fry Sauce — easy French Fry dipping sauce
- Easy Cheese Sauce, microwave or stovetop
- Mild Pesto
- Cherry Chipotle BBQ Sauce
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This isn’t straight-up tahini — it’s a deliciously smooth sauce made from tahini, lemon juice, and garlic. It will be your new favorite!
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup tahini paste
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 clove garlic, peeled and roughly chopped
- 6 tablespoons water
Instructions
- In a small food processor or blender, blend all ingredients together until smooth.
- Store leftover sauce in fridge for up to 2 weeks in a jar or tightly covered container.
Nutrition Information
Serving: 1tablespoon, Calories: 46kcal, Carbohydrates: 2g, Protein: 1g, Fat: 4g, Saturated Fat: 1g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g, Sodium: 3mg
This website provides approximate nutrition information for convenience and as a courtesy only. Nutrition data is gathered primarily from the USDA Food Composition Database, whenever available, or otherwise other online calculators.
Husband’s take: Ben is a tough critic when it comes to some of his Middle Eastern favorites but he LOVES this! Win for Rachel.
Changes I would make: None.
Difficulty: So easy!
denise says
sound good
Chelsea @chelseasmessyapron says
There is a pita I get at this hole in the wall restaurant by our house that has a tahini sauce and it is my favorite pita ever! I totally need to try and re-create it with this sauce recipe!! Pinned :)
Rachel Gurk says
hole in the wall restaurants are the best!
Danae @ Recipe Runner says
This looks so yummy! I can totally see myself dunking a chicken pita into it!
sarah k @ the pajama chef says
this sounds so good!
Norma | Allspice and Nutmeg says
I love Tahini sauce. I use it in many Middle Eastern dishes. So good.
Medha @ Whisk & Shout says
I’ve never had tahini! This is giving me the push to finally actually buy it when I go to the grocery store :)
Phi @ The Sweetphi Blog says
Love this idea Rachel, looks yummy :)
Liz@Virtually Homemade says
I love tahini too. What a great idea to thin it out and make it into a sauce – brilliant!!
Liz @ The Lemon Bowl says
LOVE tahini sauce!!! We use it as a dip for roasted cauliflower – so freaking good. Thanks for the kafta shout out!! xo
Sues says
I can totally see why you can’t resist making this- it sounds awesome!