Garlic Tahini Sauce
This creamy, lemony, garlic tahini sauce is the best I’ve ever tasted. Plus, you’ll need 7 ingredients only and requires 5 minutes to whip up this sauce.
This sauce is perfect for drizzling over the salads, bowls (e.g. falafel sald bowl), roasted veggies, shawarma, etc. This makes the perfect dipping sauce for your veggies, pita chips or air fryer falafel.
❤️ You’ll Love This Garlic Tahini Sauce Recipe
No blending, no cooking required. Just whisk everything in a bowl and delicious tahini sauce is ready.
- Taste: Nutty, tangy with subtle garlic flavor.
- Texture: smooth, creamy and rich
Versatile: can be used as a dip, dressing for salads, spread on sandwiches, burgers.
Because it is lemony and creamy, it’ll jazz up your boring meal and makes everything tastes a little better.
This sauce is vegan, healthy yet super flavorful.
🧾Ingredient Notes
- Tahini: This is the main and key ingredient to make this sauce. So choose the right and good quality. I have used homemade tahini here. If using store-bought choose one which has a runny texture with a nutty and less bitter taste.
- Garlic: Highly recommend grating the garlic clove using a microplane zester. It adds a nice flavor vs using minced garlic.
- Lemon juice: Squeeze it fresh to get the best flavor. No, bottled lemon juice won’t give a good taste.
- Paprika & Ground cumin: added to make the sauce more flavorful.
- Parsley: Herbs add a nice fresh, bright flavor. Instead, you can try other herbs like cilantro, dill leaves, basil, mint.
- Water: The water is added to make saucy consistency. Adjust the amount of water as needed. If used to spread on a sandwich or pita bread then keep a little thick. If used as a salad dressing then keep it runny and slightly thin.
👩🍳 How To Make Garlic Tahini Sauce? (Stepwise)
1) Take grated garlic, salt and lemon juice in a bowl. Mix and let it sit for 5 minutes. This resting time reduces the pungency of raw garlic.
2) Add tahini, paprika and ground cumin.
3) Also, add water.
4) Start whisking the mixture. At the beginning of whisking, it may look curdled and you feel something went wrong. Don’t worry keep whisking until smooth and runny.
5) Add chopped parsley.
6) Mix well and it is ready to serve.
💭 Expert Tips
- Reduce the pungent and strong flavor of raw garlic: rest the mixture of garlic, salt and lemon juice for 5 minutes.
- Adjust the amount of water: If making to spread on sandwiches, burger reduce the amount. The given amount in the recipe is perfect for dipping sauce or drizzling over salad, bowls.
- Taste and adjust: do a taste test, adjust the amount of salt and lemon juice as per your liking preferences.
🥣 Storage Instructions
- Store the leftover in an airtight glass container.
- Keep in the refrigerator for 1-2 weeks only.
📖 Variations
- Like spicy? Add cayenne, chili powder or za’atar spice
- Like green and more herby? Instead of whisking, use a food processor. Add herbs with the rest of the stuff and blend to get uniform green ting to the sauce. Other herbs to try – dill leaves, basil, cilantro, mint.
- Don’t like garlic? Skip adding garlic and make the lemony tahini sauce.
- Prefer a really mild garlic flavor? Try adding roasted, mashed garlic instead of raw. It gives a sweeter and mild garlic flavor.
🍽 Serving Ideas
- Dipping sauce for pita chips, falafel, raw veggies.
- Drizzle over roasted/grilled veggies, kebabs, salads or falafel bowl, buddha bowls, shawarma, falafel pita pockets.
- Spread on sandwiches, burgers, wraps.
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Garlic Tahini Sauce Recipe
US measuring cups are used (1 cup = 240 ml)
Ingredients
- 1 clove Garlic, grated
- Salt, to taste
- ¼ cup Lemon juice, freshly squeezed
- ½ cup Tahini
- ⅛ teaspoon Paprika
- ⅛ teaspoon Cumin powder
- ¼ cup Water, cold or room temperature
- 1 tablespoon Parsley, finely chopped
Instructions
- Take grated garlic, salt and lemon juice in a bowl. Mix and let it sit for 5 minutes.
- Add tahini, paprika, ground cumin and water.
- Start whisking the mixture. At the beginning of whisking, it may look curdled and you feel something went wrong. Don’t worry keep whisking until smooth and runny.
- Add chopped parsley. Mix well and sauce is ready to serve.
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Notes
- Reduce the pungent and strong flavor of raw garlic: rest the mixture of garlic, salt and lemon juice for 5 minutes.
- Adjust the amount of water: If making to spread on sandwiches, burger reduce the amount. The given amount in the recipe is perfect for dipping sauce or drizzling over salad, bowls.
- Taste and adjust: do a taste test, adjust the amount of salt and lemon juice as per your liking preferences.
- Storage: Store in an airtight glass container in the refrigerator for 1-2 weeks.
- Like spicy? Add cayenne, chili powder or za’atar spice
- Like green and more herby? Instead of whisking, use a food processor. Add herbs with the rest of the stuff and blend to get uniform green ting to the sauce. Other herbs to try – dill leaves, basil, cilantro, mint.
- Don’t like garlic? Skip adding garlic and make the lemony tahini sauce.
- Prefer a really mild garlic flavor? Try adding roasted, mashed garlic instead of raw. It gives a sweeter and mild garlic flavor.
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Last Updated on February 29, 2024
