Arabic Tahini Salad Sauce

Name: Arabic Tahini Salad Sauce
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: about ½ cup (120 ml)
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Ingredients: 1/4 cup (60 ml) Tahini; 1/4 cup (60 ml) Lemon Juice; 1 tsp microplaned (3 g) Garlic; to taste ~1/2 teaspoon Salt

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Michael Rafidi recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Michael Rafidi.

DRESSING · CHOPPED ARABIC SALAD & GRILLED LAMB

A dressing for chopped Arabic salad & grilled lamb.

Michael Rafidi's tahini dressing for salad and grilled lamb.

On the jar

ARABIC

Method: shake
Yield: about ½ cup
Ingredients: 4
Jar batch: 2.15× recipe

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Ratio

TAHINI 60 mlLEMON JUICE 60 ml

Ingredients

Tahini1/4 cup (60 ml)
Lemon Juice1/4 cup (60 ml)
Garlic1 tsp microplaned (3 g)
Saltto taste ~1/2 teaspoon

Where it sits

One of 359 dressings in the catalog, with 4 ingredients against a median of 6.

The acid here is lemon juice. In this category chefs also reach for lime juice (58 recipes), rice vinegar (52), and red wine vinegar (34).

It carries no emulsifier, as 26% of the catalog’s dressings do.

Method

Pour to the lines in order (bottom → top): TAHINI, LEMON JUICE.
Season to finish: GARLIC (1½ cloves), SALT (about 1 tsp).
Cap the jar and shake until emulsified.

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4 ingredients. One pour.

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Provenance

Levantine / Palestinian-inspired chef of Albi and Maydan projects in Washington, D.C.; James Beard Outstanding Chef 2024. Wood-fired cooking and fermented chile sauces.

Adapted from a Michael Rafidi recipe (Michael Rafidi / District Fray).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

Yes. Its liquids pour to printed fill-lines, so it can be one of the sauces on a PantryFlex jar.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). A PantryFlex jar makes a 2.15× batch of it. The jar's printed lines, counts, and QR guide are already scaled to match, so follow the jar or this page, not a mix of both. Amounts in the jar’s ADD row are rounded to the nearest common spoon measure (T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) so they can be read off the glass.

Where did this recipe come from?

Adapted from Michael Rafidi / District Fray (published as “Arabic Tahini Salad Sauce”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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