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Creamy tahini and labneh sauce
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Creamy tahini and labneh sauce
This sauce is prepared with lebneh (fresh cheese made from yogurt-pasteurized milk. With a very thick cream texture and a mild lactic flavour, slightly lemony, accented with cumin, mint leaves and coriander. Use this sauce to enhance your salads, sandwiches, tacos, pizza meat or poultry or even pasta.
Creamy tahini and labneh sauce
| Prep time: 5 minutes |
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| Cooking time: No cooking required |
| Servings or yield: 1½ cup of sauce |
| Difficulty level: Easy |
| ½ cup tahini |
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| 1/3 à ½ cup water |
| 2 tbsp. olive oil |
| 7 mint leaved, minced, optional |
| 2 tbsp. de Labneh (can be replaced with sour cream) |
| The juice of ½ lemon |
| ¼ tsp. chopped red chilli pepper finely, optional |
| 1 clove garlic, minced |
| 1 tsp. fresh cilantro leaves, chopped (can be replaced with fresh parsley) |
| 1 pinch ground cumin |
| 1 ½ tbsp. Pomegranate molasses, optional |
| Salt and pepper to taste |
Preparation
In a bowl add tahini, water and mix adding more water if necessary until liquid sauce is consistence. Add olive oil, mint, lemon juice, coriander, garlic, molasses and red pepper and mix well. Add cumin and labneh, salt and pepper to taste and mix well.
Use to enhance your sandwiches, tacos, meat or poultry. See our recipe spaghetti sautéed pork with tahini sauce. Keeps refrigerated one week.
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Preparation steps
1 - In a bowl add tahini, water and mix adding more water if necessary until liquid sauce is consistence. Add olive oil, mint, lemon juice, coriander, garlic, molasses and red pepper
2 - Add cumin and labneh, salt and pepper to taste and mix well.
3 - Use to enhance your sandwiches, tacos, meat or poultry. See our recipe spaghetti sautéed pork with tahini sauce. Keeps refrigerated one week.
