Name: Best Tahini Sauce
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Ingredients: 4 medium-to-large cloves garlic, pressed or minced; ¼ cup lemon juice; ½ cup tahini; ½ teaspoon fine sea salt; Pinch of ground cumin; 6 tablespoons ice water, more as needed

Ingredients

6 serv.

4 medium-to-large cloves garlic, pressed or minced
¼ cup lemon juice
½ cup tahini
½ teaspoon fine sea salt
Pinch of ground cumin
6 tablespoons ice water, more as needed

Instructions

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1 In a medium bowl, combine the garlic and lemon juice. Let the mixture rest for 10 minutes, to give the garlic time to infuse the lemon juice with flavor.
2 Pour the mixture through a fine-mesh sieve into another medium bowl. Press the garlic solids with a spatula to extract as much liquid as possible. Discard the garlic.
3 Add the tahini, salt and cumin to the bowl. Whisk until the mixture is thoroughly blended.
4 Add water 2 tablespoons at a time, whisking after each addition until smooth. (It may seize up, don’t worry.) After about 6 tablespoons, you will have a perfectly creamy and smooth, light-colored tahini sauce.
5 If desired, thin with additional water for a more drizzly sauce. Adjust if necessary—if you’d like more tang, add more lemon, or for more overall flavor, add another pinch of salt. Your tahini sauce is ready to serve!