Tahini
Recipes
Falafel pressed flat under a pita
The mix goes onto the bread, then the whole thing goes face down in the pan. All crust, no fryer.
Shawarma turkey meatballs over couscous
Foil over the pan for the first six minutes, which is the whole trick.
Chicken and chickpea pitas
Fifteen minutes, one pan and a tahini sauce loosened with honey.
Falafel and farro, everything marinated
The falafel mix needs ten minutes alone before you touch it. Rush that and it crumbles.
Lemon-tahini kale, chicken and apple
A dressing with parmesan, tahini and Worcestershire in it, which is more than it sounds.
Fried feta, kale and roast sweet potato
A salad with a fried cheese course sitting on top of it, so nobody complains.
Mark's hummus
Sharper than the hummus you know, and built to hold up under everything you pile on it.
Baba ghanouj, minus the mashing
The dip's more glamorous sister, who refuses to be puréed.
Tahini and Parmesan, an unlikely pasta salad
A pasta salad with sesame where the mayonnaise should be, blistered tomatoes through it.
Roasted cauliflower under a tahini-parsley flood
The cauliflower is fine. The sauce is the reason you came.
Tahini ranch, hold the Hidden Valley
Ranch, reimagined in tahini and soft herbs. Not a bottle in sight.
Garlic tahini, properly loosened
Nutty, garlicky and pourable. The sauce that makes vegetables interesting.
Featured
Tomato sauce so simple you'll die
Marcella's three ingredients, one of which you bin, and a fourth she never sanctioned.
A ricotta pasta that begs to be messed with
Stir it in a bowl while the water boils, then fiddle until it tastes like yours.
Gnocchi baked with corn and a goat cheese heart
A whole round of goat cheese goes in last and collapses into the sauce.