This garlic lemon herb tahini dressing is creamy, herb forward and easy to whip up boasting multiple uses from salads to vegetables to meats!

You know that tiny bit of anxiety you get when you bring a dish to a party, set it on the table and then secretly spend the rest of the time praying people will eat it?

No? Just me?

Well that’s what happened with this on Easter.

My mom asked me to bring a side dish of vegetables so I threw together some barely cooked asparagus, raw shaved zucchini and stuffed green olives in the biggest pasta bowl I have, dressed it with just some olive oil, lemon and garlic and then went to work on this dressing to be served on the side.

I used a basic tahini dressing recipe as inspiration but literally just starting throwing things like lemon and fresh herbs into the food processor with abandon and adjusting after a few pulses here and there.

You should see the notepad I write recipes on, this one looks like something out of A Beautiful Mind, minus the whole genius/schizo part.

I’ve only had tahini in my hands for literally a week now, but I can 100% say that this will be one of my go to uses for it.

It basically turned what would otherwise be called a pesto into an amazing lemon herb tahini dressing with savory garlic undertones.

Put it on a salad (like a delicious tatsoi salad), drizzle it over raw, grilled or roasted vegetables (like this roasted romanesco or grilled artichokes), use it as a pasta sauce, maybe an unconventional hollandaise sauce over eggs…

Possibilities = endless with this garlicky lemon herb tahini dressing.

Don’t worry, I did actually wash the basil that went into the dressing.

I can’t even tell you how much the sand on those leaves is bothering me in this picture (deep breaths).

So I sit down with my plate of food assuming no one will say anything about the vegetables when there’s french toast casserole, potato leek casserole, a ham, a lamb roast, muffins and 10 desserts strewn across the kitchen counter resigning to the fact that I’ll probably be taking home every damn zucchini ribbon that I spent 30 minutes peeling and guess what?

It happened.

That “oh my gosh, who made this?” question that everyone hopes is about their dish.

I turn around expecting to see someone with their face full of dessert to see my aunt with a forkful of veggies raised in the air looking around for someone to claim it as theirs.

All I could do was smile.

Veggies with lemon herb tahini dressing for the win.

It may not have bitchin’ in its name but it sure acts like it.

MORE RECIPES WITH TAHINI TO TRY:

Roasted sweet potato, squash and chickpea fall salad
Blueberry White Bean Salad with Tahini Turmeric Dressing
Yogurt Tahini Mediterranean Carrot Salad