Torator - Middle Eastern Sesame Lemon Sauce
Recipe: #26249
June 16, 2017
Categories: Sauce, Beans, Chickpeas/Garbanzo, Lemon, Middle Eastern, Moroccan, 5 Ingredients Or Less, 5-Minute Prep, One-Pot Meal, Gluten-Free, Kosher, No Eggs, Non-Dairy, Vegan, Vegetarian, more
"Tarator is a favorite sauce in the Eastern Mediterranean. It is often served with shawarma, fish, falafel, kefta or over vegetables. Sometimes it is spelled taratoor, taratur or taratour. From whats4eats."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (59 g)
- Calories 89.3
- Total Fat - 7.2 g
- Saturated Fat - 1 g
- Cholesterol - 0 mg
- Sodium - 448.6 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 5.2 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.8 g
- Sugars - 0.3 g
- Protein - 2.8 g
- Calcium - 67.6 mg
- Iron - 0.5 mg
- Vitamin C - 7 mg
- Thiamin - 0.2 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Place the tahini, lemon juice and salt in a large bowl. Add most of the water and whisk together until smooth. Add more of the water depending on how thick you like the sauce and adjust salt to taste. It is typically served somewhat thick in the Middle East.
Tips
No special items needed.