Dinner · 30 min · Amounts not specified
Roast carrots with tahini
Roast them hard enough to have black edges, then lay them on the sauce rather than under it. Tahini seizes before it loosens; keep adding water.
The sheet · 4 as a side · 30 min
easyWhy tonight. Roast them hard enough to have black edges, then lay them on the sauce rather than under it. Tahini seizes before it loosens; keep adding water.
What it needs
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- carrot
- tahini
- lemon
- olive oil
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: garlic.
Method
- Roast the carrots hard and dry — oil, salt, 220C, no crowding. Steamed carrots will not take this sauce.
- Tahini thinned with lemon juice and cold water. It seizes to cement first, then loosens; keep adding water past the panic point.
- Garlic grated into the sauce, not the pan, so it stays sharp against the sweet carrot.
- Sauce spooned onto the plate and carrots laid on top, so the first thing they touch is not the plate.
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- Roasting vegetablesFor the Best Roasted Vegetables, Start with Steam | Techniquely with Lan LamAmerica's Test KitchenSteam first, then roast. It solves the usual problem of browned outside and raw in the middle.Link checked 2026-09-08
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- Produce prepHow To Mince GarlicAmerica's Test KitchenSmashing and mincing a clove down to something that cooks evenly instead of burning in pieces.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- carrot
- Sweetness that survives long cooking, which is why it sits under so many braises.
- tahini
- Sesame paste that behaves like a fat and an emulsifier at once.
- lemon
- Acid you add at the end, not the start.
- olive oil
- Two ingredients sharing a name.
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