The Best Tahini Sauce Ever.
Blend tahini with lemon, garlic, and Chain Reaction, then thin with water until it flows smooth and pourable
Blend tahini with lemon, garlic, and Chain Reaction, then thin with water until it flows smooth and pourable
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 450 grams tahini paste
- 2 oz garlic cloves
- 1 1/2 cups lemon juice, freshly squeezed
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds, lightly toasted in a pan, ground
- 1 Tablespoon Casa M Spice Co® Chain Reaction®
- water
- salt to taste
Method
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01
Toast and grind cumin seeds
3 minLight toast in dry pan until fragrant, then grind.
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02
Blend garlic, lemon juice, cumin, Chain Reaction
2 minPurée until smooth.
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03
Add tahini and pulse to combine
1 minMixture will seize and turn pasty.
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04
Add water gradually and blend until smooth
4 minAdd water a few tablespoons at a time, pulsing between, until thick and smooth.
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05
Season with salt to taste
1 minStart with a quarter teaspoon, blend it in, taste it, then adjust — tahini's rich and can hide salt, so you'll need more than you think to make those bright flavors pop.
From Mike's Notebook
The sauce seizes when tahini hits the blender—that's normal, water fixes it, don't panic and add more tahini.
Freshly squeezed lemon juice matters here; bottled stuff won't cut through the tahini's richness the same way.
Toast cumin seeds until you smell them, then grind immediately—stale ground cumin disappears into this sauce.
Nutrition
Estimated · 1 serving · calculated from the ingredient list, not lab-tested.
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