This tahini salad dressing will turn any simple salad into a gourmet meal!
Salads don’t need to be fancy when you have dressings like this! You can pour this over a bowl of plain lettuce and feel very excited about eating it. 
Which, as you can see from the above photo, is exactly what we did!
The recipe is super simple and comes together in five minutes flat.
If you have some tahini, fresh lemons, maple syrup, rice vinegar, toasted sesame oil and crushed garlic on hand (with a little added salt, pepper and water) then you’re all set to make this salad dressing.
It’s just a case of adding all the ingredients to a jug and then whisking it in!
It pours beautifully over your salad and it will totally wow your tastebuds. It’s totally versatile as well and you can use it as a sauce or topping for other things!
So I hope you’ll love this tahini salad dressing! It is:
- Super simple
- Tangy and fresh
- Creamy
- Smooth
- Versatile!
It’s best when fresh, but if you want to keep some in the fridge, it will stay good for a few days, some separation may occur, just whisk it up again and enjoy.
So leave us a comment and let us know what you think of this tahini salad dressing! Rate the recipe too please, thanks so much.
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Tahini Salad Dressing
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Total Time: 5 mins
- Yield: 2/3 cup
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Super simple and versatile tahini salad dressing. Creamy, smooth, tangy and fresh, this vegan salad dressing can turn any simple salad into a gourmet event!
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup (60ml) Tahini
- 2 Tbsp Lemon Juice (freshly squeezed)
- 1 Tbsp Maple Syrup
- 1 Tbsp Rice Vinegar
- 1 Tbsp Toasted Sesame Oil
- 1/2 tsp Crushed Garlic
- 2 Tbsp Water
- 1/8 tsp Sea Salt*
- 1/8 tsp Black Pepper*
Instructions
- Add all the ingredients to a measuring jug.
- Whisk with a hand whisk until completely smooth.
- Pour over your salad and enjoy!
Notes
*You might want to use more salt and pepper, just taste test and see how you like it.
- Category: Side, Savory, Gluten-Free
- Cuisine: Vegan
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Tbsp
- Calories: 49
- Sugar: 1.2g
- Sodium: 33mg
- Fat: 4.1g
- Saturated Fat: 0.5g
- Carbohydrates: 2.5g
- Fiber: 0.5g
- Protein: 0.9g
Keywords: tahini salad dressing
I make this dressing all the time! There’s a local health food restaurant in Santa Barbara I became obsessed with when I went to college there. I often longed for their tahini dressing since. Now this is my most favorite dressing recipe! Depending on what tahini you use, it sometimes has a nuttier taste (soom) and other times has more of that tang. Thanks for sharing this one!
Very tasty thanks
★★★★★
Awesome! Thanks for the great rating Rob! 🙂
Hi Alison,
I love your recipe, thanks for sharing. I did, however, modify it according to what I had on hand. So here’s what I did. I replaced maple syrup with HONEY, replaced rice vinegar with WINE vinegar, and replaced plain water with ROSE WATER! The outcome was awesome, Alison. I hope you’ll try this version.
Thanks for sharing Lee. 🙂
Delicious! Thank you for sharing your recipe. I made this for my Book Group and I doubled the recipe and added 1/4 tsp Ground Cumin and 1/2 tsp Ground Turmeric and it was delicious!
★★★★★
Sounds awesome! Thanks so much for sharing and the great review! xo
Fantastic for salads
★★★★★
Can you do it without the oil?
Hi Charlotte, yes you can. 🙂
I will be making this for lunch salad dressing but I’m trying to do Whole 30….is there something I could use for a little sweetener?
You could replace the maple syrup with any kind of sweetener that you prefer. It does need a little something sweet in there though to balance the flavors out perfectly, so for the sake of tasting good I wouldn’t omit it altogether.
Can I use olive oil instead of sesame oil? I have everything on hand but that!
Yes sure! It will have a slightly different flavor but still super good! 🙂
Just made and love. I didn’t have any sesame oil and still tasted great to me. Thank you so much for sharing.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Simple and tasty and just what one needs for salad.
★★★★★
Loved this and so did husband. So easy and tasty
★★★★★
Awesome! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
I first saw a version of this on clean food dirty girl on Facebook. And they called it T crack. I’ve since seen in endless variety of variations that are all just as good as the next , this one included, thank you for sharing.
Hahaha, what a great description of it! Fits perfectly! Thanks for posting! 🙂