Tahini Sauce

Name: Tahini Sauce
Prep time: 8 min
Total time: 8 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Palestinian & Jordanian
Ingredients: 0.333 cup tasty tahini; 0.333 cup cool water; 0.5 lemon; sea salt; 1 small garlic clove; 3 stalks fresh parsley; paprika

Tasty tahini, lemon and parsley come together in this Palestinian and Jordanian sauce, seasoned with clove and paprika and made without cooking.

8 min · Serves 4 · Easy

Ingredients

78.78 mltasty tahini
78.78 mlcool water, maybe more if leaving in the fridge for some time
0.5 lemon, juice of
sea salt, to taste
1 small garlic clove, use only if serving this sauce as a meze) (optional)
3–5 stalks fresh parsley, ditto) (optional)
paprika, ditto) (optional)

Method

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Time: Prep 8 min · 8 min total
Difficulty: easy

1
Put the tahini in a small bowl and pour in a little water. Stir slowly until the texture starts to become thicker, then add more water and stir. Repeat a few times keeping the mixture more or less homogeneous.
2
Squeeze and add the lemon juice. (Stop at this point if using with Msabbha). (Continue if serving as a sauce in itself), Chop the garlic and the parsley well, and add them while stirring.
3
If the tahini is too thick, add a little more water. Add the salt. Serve with some chopped parsley on top and a sprinkling of paprika.