This vegan lemon tahini dressing is a great oil free salad dressing for fat loss and insulin resistance that is fresh, creamy, vegan, and so yummy! The vegan lemon tahini dressing is a delicious and nutritious way to add flavor to your salads and bowls while keeping your meals light and wholesome.
The oil free tahini dressing is made with simple ingredients including tahini, maple syrup, lemon juice, tamari and garlic for a naturally creamy and zesty lemon tahini dressing that is oil free and healthy.
I like to use the tahini and lemon dressing as a buddha bowl dressing served with black beans, roasted sweet potato, corn, cherry tomatoes, avocado, and romaine lettuce. The tahini dressing is such an easy, healthy, and delicious buddha bowl salad dressing.
Using tahini is great to make a creamy oil free salad dressing for weight loss. Vegetables are the best foods for weight loss and lowering blood sugar, but often the salad dressing is high in calories and due to refined oils used to make salad dressings. Nut and seed butter are much healthier than processed oils to make oil free salad dressings.
Vegan Lemon Tahini Dressing
- 4 tbsp tahini
- 4 tbsp water
- 1 ½ tbsp maple syrup
- 1 tbsp tamari
- ¼ cup fresh lemon juice
- 1 clove garlic
How to Make the Oil Free Tahini Dressing:
- Cut the lemon in half and juice it until you have ¼ cup of fresh lemon juice.
- Add the lemon juice, tahini, water, maple syrup, tamari, and garlic to a wide-mouth mason jar.
- Use an immersion blender to blend until smooth and creamy.
- Store in the refrigerator and shake well before using.
Nutritional benefits of this oil free tahini salad dressing
Tahini is a paste made from ground sesame seeds that is great for making creamy salad dressings. It is nutritious and a great source of copper, selenium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, and calcium.
Selenium and zinc are antioxidants and important minerals for the immune system. Zinc helps to modulate insulin activity, and selenium is a co-factor for recycling glutathione, one of the body’s most potent antioxidants.
Lemon is an alkalizing liver cleansing fruit. The lemon in this oil-free tahini dressing provides a fresh and zesty flavor that complements the tahini and tamari.
Making this creamy vegan lemon tahini dressing is super easy. Measure all the ingredients into a wide mouth mason jar, then use an immersion blender to make a creamy salad dressing. Alternatively, you can use a high-speed blender as well.
The tahini and lemon dressing is super versatile and tastes great over any leafy green salad with freshly chopped vegetables of your choice. Using this tahini dressing over leafy greens is great for diabetes or insulin resistance as leafy greens are the best foods to lower blood sugar levels.
This oil free tahini dressing is delicious as a buddha bowl dressing as well. Add a legume and grain of your choice to mixed veggies, and you have a healthy buddha bowl.
Oil free salad dressings are the best dressings for weight loss as they are lower in fat and processed oils found in traditional store-bought salad dressings. Processed oils are high in calories and low in nutrients. On the other hand, vegetables are low in calories and high in nutrients, fiber, and antioxidants that lower inflammation.
Inflammation is an underlying cause of insulin resistance which leads to type 2 diabetes. A low-fat plant-based diet is the best diet for insulin resistance.
Tahini contains healthy unprocessed fats, fiber, vitamins, and minerals. It is the perfect option for making a creamy salad dressing.
This vegan lemon tahini dressing is full of flavor, fresh, and the best lemon tahini dressing I have ever made! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. The Glory Bowl dressing is another delicious vegan salad dressing made with tahini that is one of my most popular posts.
Be sure to try some of these oil free dressings and sauces that are low calorie and healthy! This vegan lemon tahini dressing can be found in my Oil Free Dressings, Sauces and Dips E-book that you can sign up to access in my library of free E-books. All the recipe E-books are designed to be printed on standard paper so you can create your own recipe book binder.
Vegan Lemon Tahini Dressing – Oil Free & Healthy
Equipment
- immersion blender
Ingredients
- 4 tbsp tahini
- 4 tbsp water
- 1.5 tbsp maple syrup
- 1 tbsp tamari
- ¼ cup fresh lemon juice
- 1 clove garlic
Instructions
- Measure all ingredients into a wide mouth mason jar then use an immersion blender to blend.
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