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Dinner · 30 min · 4 as a side

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

easy

Why 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

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • carrot
  • tahini
  • lemon
  • olive oil

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: garlic.

Method

  1. Roast the carrots hard and dry — oil, salt, 220C, no crowding. Steamed carrots will not take this sauce.
  2. Tahini thinned with lemon juice and cold water. It seizes to cement first, then loosens; keep adding water past the panic point.
  3. Garlic grated into the sauce, not the pan, so it stays sharp against the sweet carrot.
  4. Sauce spooned onto the plate and carrots laid on top, so the first thing they touch is not the plate.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

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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.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

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