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Tahini Sauce Recipe (tarator)

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Written by Dede Med

This sauce is very versatile and can be used to dress up salads, chicken, shawarma, fish or falafel. It's easy to make and can be made in batches in advance. The tahini adds a great nuttiness to the sauce and is full of healthy sesame oil from the tahini paste and protein. Ingredients 2 cloves minced garlic 1/3 cup lemon juice 1/2 cup tahini 1 tsp chopped radish (optional) 1/4 cup water 1 tsp fresh chopped parsley 1 tsp fresh chopped green onion Directions In a bowl add the first 5 ingredients and mix with a wire whisk until well combined. Mix in the parsley. Garnish with fresh chopped green onion. Use as a condiment or dipping sauce for falafel, shawarma, fish or any other item.

Tahini Sauce Recipe (tarator)

Total Time: 5 Minutes

Prep Time: 5 Minutes

Cook Time: None

Yield: 4

Level: Easy

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Ingredients

2 cloves minced garlic
1/3 cup lemon juice
1/2 cup tahini
1 tsp chopped radish (optional)
1/4 cup water
1 tsp fresh chopped parsley
1 tsp fresh chopped green onion

Directions

In a bowl add the first 5 ingredients and mix with a wire whisk until well combined. Mix in the parsley. Garnish with fresh chopped green onion. Use as a condiment or dipping sauce for falafel, shawarma, fish or any other item.

Tahini Sauce Recipe (tarator)

Ingredients

2 cloves minced garlic
1/3 cup lemon juice
1/2 cup tahini
1 tsp chopped radish (optional)
1/4 cup water
1 tsp fresh chopped parsley
1 tsp fresh chopped green onion

Directions

@owdi2631992 I'm not, I'm 100% Lebanese born in DETROIT!
By: dedemed

Thumbs up if you think shes Palestinian
By: owdi2631992

@hiraj15979 just toast them in a pan, no need to add anything, toast them until they are light brown.
By: dedemed

Hi Dede, lovely recipes! However am facing a problem. I dont have a oven to cook the sesame seeds to make tahini. How do I do it on a plain old stove?
By: hiraj15979

@Gabrielitodlp awww that's so sweet, I'm glad you like them. Please check out my site for other recipes I'm sure you'll like :)
By: dedemed

Thanks for the videos. I really needed to know how to make these dishes since I moved to another country and its hard or impossible to find arab food.
By: Gabrielitodlp

@njprakkat you can use a light olive oil b/c you don't want the taste of the olive oil to interfere with the taste of the sesame seeds.
By: dedemed

Can we use olive oil instead of the vegetable oil to make the tahini paste?
By: njprakkat

@rullah28 it's either tahini sauce or tzatziki sauce, both are on my site :)
By: dedemed

do you know if the halal gyro cart on 53rd and 6th ave in NY uses tahini sauce?(their famous white sauce)
By: rullah28

@diannersaur yes a blender will work :)
By: dedemed

How else can you make it if you don't have a food processor? Will a blender do?
By: diannersaur

@aleica Yes tahini is made from toasted sesame seeds. And yes tahini sauce goes great with lamb, chicken, falafel, beef and even fish :)
By: dedemed

@dedemed thanks for the reply. Tahini can only be prepared from roasted sesame, right? and also, can I used tahini sauce from your recipe as a dipping sauce for sliced lamb meat barbecue?
By: aleica

@aleica you can eat it with falafel, chicken, shawarma, kefta, fish, this really goes well with anything.
By: dedemed

Thanks for the video. but what you are going to eat with it? how do you eat with the prepared sauce?
By: aleica

@harrys2912 very interesting :) I like it with most fish too!
By: dedemed

Goes very well with a tuna salad.
By: harrys2912

@Kendall5199 this recipe is tahini sauce not tahini paste, for tahini paste check out my other recipe :)
By: dedemed

@Kendall5199 for the tahini paste check out my tahini paste recipe from scratch :)
By: dedemed

This is good but I was trying to make the tahini from the seeds without buying the paste.
By: Kendall5199

@fabfauna that sauce is good for about a week or so but the tahini jar is good for a few months, just keep it sealed.
By: dedemed

How long is the Tahini sauce good for?
By: fabfauna

@cphunt I personally don't add any olive oil b/c the sesame paste has enough natural oil in it. There are many different recipes for this and I would say they are all authentic, just made the way each person likes it :)
By: dedemed

@redrubymist just add a little more lemon juice and some water, that will do the trick :)
By: dedemed

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