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Dinner · 30 min · 4 as a side

Cauliflower tahini salad

Roast cauliflower. Sauce is tahini-lemon.

The sheet · 4 as a side · 30 min

easy

Why tonight. Roast cauliflower. Sauce is tahini-lemon.

What it needs

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

  • cauliflower
  • tahini
  • lemon
  • cumin

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

Method

  1. Roast the cauliflower with cumin until it is nearly too dark. This dish is built on that char and nothing else replaces it.
  2. Tahini let down with lemon and cold water past the point where it seizes — it goes stiff and pale first, then smooth.
  3. Sauce on the plate, cauliflower on top, so it does not go soft sitting in it.
  4. Parsley and more lemon at the end. Tahini is heavy and it needs the acid twice.

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

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

cauliflower
Bland when boiled, excellent when browned.
tahini
Sesame paste that behaves like a fat and an emulsifier at once.
lemon
Acid you add at the end, not the start.
cumin
Earthy and slightly bitter, and it needs heat to open.

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.

Cooks from the same box

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