Creamy Smooth Tahini Dressing Recipe

[Saviolo]

Going back to salad town! This is an amazing vegetarian (and vegan if you leave out the feta cheese!) alternative to a Caesar dressing. It's creamy and rich and has a bit of acidic zing from the lemon juice. Hubby found that you could use tahini to emulsify oil in a dressing, so it makes almost a vegan mayonnaise without any eggs! We've dropped it over a lovely shredded radicchio and cabbage salad, and it's something we frequently eat when we're having something like a simple cheese-and-meats board for dinner.

Also, if you leave off the feta, you can garnish this with lots of different things. It's excellent with toasted walnuts, toasted pine nuts, or toasted sunflower seeds. It also goes particularly well with olives.

[alfredo]

1. Looks good. I'm going to try that slaw.

Here's recipe I found.
https://cookieandkate.com/creamy-tahini-dressing-recipe/

[Saviolo]

4. Yeah, there are lots of variations.

Hubby adapted this one from a Bon Appetit recipe, and made just a couple of small customizations to it.

[alfredo]

7. Recipes are just genral guides.

Do it once, then adapt.

[mitch96]

2. Way cool recipe...

Another good way to get cruciferous veg into your diet. I try to limit my dairy intake so would grilled tofu work instead of feta? Maybe smear some chopped capers to get the saltiness into the tofu..
I always liked the variation on the garbanzo/sesame seed/lemon/garlic/parsley mix.
Hummus, falafel, socca..
I've been playing with garbanzo flour. In India they call it Gram flour.. It makes a great fretatta/socca. To the gram flour I mix in tahini (fat) lemon juice (acid) and maybe capers or liquid aminos (salt). Stick it in a cast iron pan and plop it in the oven...
This radicchio/cabbage slaw would be delish mounded on top!! Thanks for the great recipe..
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[Saviolo]

3. You could use tofu

But I'd recommend going with olives, capers, or toasted nuts. Something with a bit more texture or flavour to it. We eat a lot of tofu (in salads and also hubby has a great recipe for mapu tofu that we will be doing a video about sometime), but this dressing is all about the *zing!*pow!* flavour.

[mitch96]

9. "a great recipe for mapu tofu "

Never heard of it, I'll check it out..
"but this dressing is all about the *zing!*pow!* flavour."

I'm all about zing *pow*... Is that anything like kung pow???

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[eppur_se_muova]

5. There's a Turkish dish known as cacik which is so much like salad dressing ...

... that it made me realize yogurt would be a great base for salad dressings. Of course, someone's already started marketing that, so there goes my chance to get rich. Tahini sounds like a very interesting, all-vegetable, alternative.

https://www.giverecipe.com/yogurt-cucumber-dip-cacik/

[Saviolo]

6. Yogurt is super versatile

We have it for breakfast most days, and we also sub it in when we want something like sour cream. It goes just about anywhere that sour cream would go, and doesn't usually have the stuff like carageenan you sometimes find in grocery store sour cream. Of course if you're really intrepid, you can always make your own crème fraîche:

[alfredo]

8. Use English Cucumbers

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They have fewer seeds, and thinner skin. If you used regular cukes, scoop out the seeds. I salt my cukes and let them drain.