Everything Tahini Sauce

Ingredients

• ½ cup Tahini
• 4 tbsp juice Lemon
• 1 clove Garlic, grated
• ¼ tsp Kosher salt
• ½ tsp Ground cumin (optional)
• 1 tsp Pure maple syrup (optional)

Method

1. Whisk tahini, lemon juice, garlic and salt. It will seize into a stiff paste and look ruined. It is not.
2. Whisk in cold water a tablespoon at a time — usually 4 to 6 total — and it will suddenly turn pale, smooth and pourable.
3. Thin further for drizzling, leave thicker for dipping.

Notes

✨ The restaurant touch

Grate the garlic on a microplane rather than mincing it so there are no raw chunks.

🧒 For the kids

Add the teaspoon of maple. It takes the edge off the sesame bitterness that kids notice and adults don't.

🌿 From the garden

Herbs blended in make a green tahini that is even better.

🥡 Leftovers

1 week refrigerated. It thickens; whisk in water.

Per serving

Computed from USDA FoodData Central values. A planning tool, not medical advice.