Tahini Turmeric Sauce
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Tahini Turmeric Sauce is bright, vibrant and full of flavour. Better yet it can be paired with almost anything from roasted veggies, salad, meat to potatoes or rice. It’s a supper saviour.
This Tahini Turmeric Sauce is a total dinner saviour using larder essentials which can be whipped up in under 5 minutes then stored in the fridge for quick and convenient dressing to so many different kinds of meals. It can transform absolutely any supper to something ultra special and flavourful.
Even if you are not into meal prepping, this Tahini Sauce is a must as it's such a time saver and so delicious you'll want it over every meal and who wants to make it from scratch each time. It’s fabulous drizzled over lamb chops, in lieu of mayonnaise in a potato salad and even stirred into a full bowl of finely diced cucumber to serve with roast chicken. It’s so easy and useful, especially if you are obsessed with tahini.
Why You’ll Love This Tahini Sauce
- Quick and easy to make.
- It can be served alongside grilled meats, drizzled over salads, used as a dip for roast potatoes (my fave!). Basically so many uses.
- Makes a large batch which will last all week in your fridge.
- It's like a legume-free version of houmous.
Ingredients Needed
Tahini. Choose your favourite brand. My favourite brand is usually the one that hasn't been sat on a supermarket shelf for months so that the oil separates, it's a very tedious process re-mixing it. You must make sure your turmeric is smooth, drippy and hasn't separated.
Plant-based milk. You can use any plant-based milk. I like my Homemade Almond Milk but cashew milk, coconut milk or oat milk work just as well. For a very thick sauce you can switch out for yoghurt.
Lemon. You only need half just to juice. Roll the lemon on your work surface before juicing to make sure it releases its juices properly.
Turmeric. Ground turmeric here. You can increase if you are a turmeric obsessive or even omit if you don't like it.
Salt. I like to use sea salt here for the best flavour.
The way I’ve made the sauce here in this recipe whisks up nice and thick so is ideal for a drizzle dressing for robust veggies, carbs and meat. However, if you want to dress it over salad leaves but are worried about it weighing the leaves down, or fancy a bit of a lighter effect then just whisk in more milk. When the dressing is allowed to rest for a day or more in the fridge it thickens up so feel free to whisk in a bit more milk at that stage too. If you are serving it straightaway then I love it as it is.
Serving Suggestions
This Tahini Sauce is incredibly versatile but here are some of the ways in which you could serve it:
Garbage Salad is made at the end of the week to use up all the odds and ends from the fridge. Try accompanying it with a few dollops of Tahini Sauce.
Why not serve it as a dip alongside some Gluten-Free Flatbread. They go together perfectly!
I always serve it drizzled over Sweet Potato Bacon Rosti.
Try it drizzled over roasted cauliflower.
Recipe Variations
This is the easiest version of it but if you want to ring the changes then you can make these small adjustments.
Add herbs. Choose fresh leafy herbs like coriander, parsley, basil, dill or mint. Or even a mini handful of all of them. Blend them in the sauce alongside the other ingredients.
Switch out for yoghurt. I mentioned this above but you could switch out the plant-based milk for a plant-based coconut yoghurt instead. This makes the sauce thicker and a little tangier. Lovely as a dipping sauce.
Add avocado. You need half an avocado for this recipe, just blend it in with everything else for a really creamy sauce. Add coriander for a guac alternative.
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Tahini Turmeric Sauce
Ingredients
- 100 g tahini
- 120 g plant-based milk
- ½ lemon - juice only
- ½ teaspoon turmeric
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
Instructions
- Pour all the above ingredients into a blender, food mixer and blend/whisk together until smooth. Or add into a medium sized bowl and use a hand whisk.
- Use straightaway or store for up to a week in the fridge.
