Name: 🌶️ Spicy Tahini Dressing
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 5 min
Ingredients: 2 cloves of garlic (or 1 teaspoon garlic powder); 1" piece fresh ginger (or 1 teaspoon ground ginger); 2 to 3 tablespoons chili garlic sauce (or hot sauce of choice, like gochujang or sriracha); 3/4 cup water; 3/4 cup tahini; 1 teaspoon agave nectar (or maple syrup); 1 tablespoon low-sodium soy sauce; juice of 1 fresh lime

Rich and creamy spicy tahini dressing is delicious on salads, falafel, or drizzled over your next comfort bowl. And it takes about 5 minutes to make in the blender!

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jar of spicy tahini dressing on a table with a wooden spoon in it. Ginger, garlic, and chili sauce are around it

Table of Contents

✓ Ingredients and substitutions
🔪 How to make spicy tahini dressing
💡 Helpful tips
🫙 Storage directions
🥄 Serving ideas
🍴 More tahini-based sauces and dips
📖 Recipe

What makes this spicy tahini dressing recipe so easy is that you make the whole thing in your blender. No chopping or even stirring required!

This dressing seriously could not be simpler to make. Just toss a little bit of fresh garlic and ginger into the blender. Add chili-garlic sauce, tahini, water, soy sauce lime juice, and a touch of agave nectar.

Blend, and devour!

Seven ingredients, 5 minutes, blend, and DONE.

This dressing is sweet-and-spicy perfection, and it's so customizable! Manage the heat by increasing or decreasing the chili garlic sauce. Or change the flavor with your favorite hot sauce, like gochujang, sriracha, harissa, etc.

You can also use other ingredients for tang, like lemon juice or rice wine vinegar.

And if you don't have fresh garlic or ginger, you can use an equivalent amount of dried in a pinch, though fresh does give the best flavor.

No matter how you adjust it, spicy tahini dressing is a delicious addition to bowl meals or salads or even drizzled onto soups or stews when you want a creamy element with a little bit of heat.

spicy tahini dressing ingredients on a wooden cutting board, text labels

✓ Ingredients and substitutions

garlic and ginger - Fresh works best, but you can use ground ginger and garlic powder, if needed.
chili garlic sauce - Or your favorite hot sauce.
tahini - The base for this spicy dressing!
agave nectar - A little sweet contrasts so beautifully with the heat!
low-sodium soy sauce - Adds saltiness and umami.
lime juice - For tang. You can use other acids, instead, like lemon juice or rice wine vinegar. The flavor will change a bit, but it will still be delicious!

🔪 How to make spicy tahini dressing

spicy tahini dressing ingredients in the blender before blending

Combine all of your ingredients in your blender.

spicy tahini dressing in the blender after blending

Puree until smooth. If needed, add more water by the tablespoon to reach your desired thickness.

💡 Helpful tips

If you don't have fresh ginger and garlic, you can use one teaspoon each of ground ginger and garlic powder instead, though fresh will taste best!
Depending on your tahini's thickness and your blender, you may need to add water to get a smooth dressing. Add water a tablespoon at a time until you reach your desired consistency. If you're making this to use later, remember that spicy tahini dressing thickens up some in the fridge, so you'll want it slightly thinner than ideal.

🫙 Storage directions

Spicy tahini sauce will keep for about a week in a closed container in the refrigerator. I like to keep it in a small glass jar for easy pouring.

🥄 Serving ideas

After you finish pureeing your dressing, you are ready to pour it onto ALL OF THE FOOD!

The finished sauce is creamy, spicy, and delicious. I love to eat it:

drizzled over lettuce or kale salads
as a dressing for air fryer falafel or pre-made, like Good & Gather frozen falafel
as dipping sauce for tofu wings, veggies, or vegan spring rolls
as the dressing for your next slaw
on a grain bowl
on a mashed potato bowl
with stir fries
as a spread for sandwiches and wraps

🍴 More tahini-based sauces and dips

📖 Recipe

🌶️ Spicy Tahini Dressing

by Becky Striepe

Rich and creamy spicy tahini dressing is delicious on salads, falafel, or drizzled over your next comfort bowl.

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Prep Time 10

Total Time 5

Servings: 8 servings

Equipment

Blender

Ingredients

2 cloves of garlic or 1 teaspoon garlic powder
1" piece fresh ginger or 1 teaspoon ground ginger
2 to 3 tablespoons chili garlic sauce or hot sauce of choice, like gochujang or sriracha
¾ cup water
¾ cup tahini
1 teaspoon agave nectar or maple syrup
1 tablespoon low-sodium soy sauce
juice of 1 fresh lime

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Instructions

Combine all of your ingredients in your blender, and puree until smooth. If needed, add more water by the tablespoon to reach your desired thickness.

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📝 Notes

If the spicy tahini dressing isn't getting blended together and creamy, add water by the tablespoon to help your blender along. This will really depend on your blender and the tahini that you are using.

You can use ground ginger and garlic powder, but fresh will give the best flavor.

Nutrition

Calories: 145kcal (7%)Carbohydrates: 7g (2%)Protein: 4g (8%)Fat: 12g (18%)Saturated Fat: 2g (10%)Polyunsaturated Fat: 5gMonounsaturated Fat: 5gSodium: 290mg (12%)Potassium: 119mg (3%)Fiber: 1g (4%)Sugar: 2g (2%)Vitamin A: 16IUVitamin C: 2mg (2%)Calcium: 35mg (4%)Iron: 1mg (6%)

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