This Tahini Goddess Dressing is inspired by The Chopped Leaf’s goddess dressing. My version includes fresh herbs making it taste a little more fresh and flavourful.
This Tahini Goddess Dressing gets its creaminess from tahini and a touch of olive oil. The punchy flavour comes from a blend of fresh herbs (dill, parsley, and chives), lemon juice and garlic. A touch of sesame oil and soy sauce adds umami, making this dressing incredibly flavourful.
This simple dressing takes less than 10 minutes to prepare. Many of the ingredients are pantry staples. You could easily get away with dried herbs and bottled lemon juice if you needed to.
Tahini is widely available in most grocery stores. Sometimes it can still be difficult to track down (depending on the store you’re shopping at.) I buy mine from Superstore, our go-to grocery store. I buy mine from the “ethnic aisle”. I’ve also found it in the natural food aisle but it’s far more expensive there. The tahini found in ethnic grocers or ethnic food aisles are typically cheaper than those found in natural food sections. (Budget tip: the same goes for coconut oil!) As a last resort, I’ve also seen tahini in the same section as the nut butters, but again, it's usually more expensive there.
This dressing doesn’t have an overwhelming tahini flavour. The olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, fresh herbs, sesame oil and soy sauce really rounds out the flavour. The end result tastes creamy, and tangy and delicious. It's hard to pinpoint the tahini as a major flavour. It just tastes really really good, you know? (Head on down to recipe notes if you really don't like tahini though...)
This Tahini Goddess Dressing goes with anything and everything. We’ve enjoyed it on salads, power bowls, and in wraps. It’d also be perfect in sandwiches, with crudite or chips, or on roasted or steamed veggies. This week I’ll share a bowl recipe where this dressing is oh-so good. In the meantime, this Vegan Tahini Goddess Dressing would be the perfect topping for our Roasted Veggie Quinoa Bowl (one of our most popular and loved recipes!)
Our next recipe will be a copycat version of The Chopped Leaf’s No. 2 Bowl, using this Tahini Goddess Dressing. Watch out for that one later this week!
Vegan Tahini Goddess Dressing
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 1 cup 1x
- Category: Dips and Sauces, Lunch and Dinner
- Cuisine: Vegan
Description
This Tahini Goddess Dressing gets its punchy flavour from fresh herbs, lemon juice, garlic, and a touch of sesame oil and soy sauce. This creamy and tangy dressing is a great addition to a variety of meals. Add it to salads, wraps, sandwiches, and power bowls (like our Roasted Veggie Quinoa Bowl).
Ingredients
- ¼ cup (60ml) tahini
- ¼ cup (60ml) lemon juice
- 2 tbsp (30ml) olive oil
- 3 tbsp (45ml) water
- 1 tbsp (15ml) soy sauce
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 tbsp (15ml) finely chopped fresh dill
- 1 tbsp (15ml) finely chopped fresh chives
- 1 tbsp (15ml) finely chopped fresh parsley
- 1 tsp (5ml) sesame oil
- ¼ tsp (1.25ml) salt
- Fresh cracked black pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in a bowl and whisk until combined.
- Taste and adjust seasoning to suit your liking.
- Refrigerate until ready to use.
Notes
Refrigeration and storage notes: Once prepared, refrigerate this dressing. Enjoy within 7 days of preparing. Once chilled, the tahini and oils in the dressing will thicken up. For a thinner consistency, allow it to warm to room temperature. You can run your container of dressing under hot water to bring it back to the original consistency. You could also thin the dressing with a little water, but this will dilute the flavour. Be sure to taste and adjust the seasoning as needed.
Reducing the tahini: If you dislike the flavour of tahini, you can substitute some of it with vegan mayo. This dressing really doesn’t taste strongly of tahini so I encourage you to try the recipe as is first!
The Chopped Leaf copycat Goddess Dressing: Reduce or omit the fresh herbs in this version.
Allergen notes (gluten-free/nut-free): This recipe can be made gluten-free, be sure to use gluten-free tamari in place of soy sauce. It’s also nut free, but does contain sesame seeds (tahini).
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 2 tbsp
- Calories: 84
- Sodium: 130.8 mg
- Fat: 8.1 g
- Saturated Fat: 1.1 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6.6 g
- Carbohydrates: 2.7 g
- Protein: 1.6 g
Belinda
With some tweaking, this was a good dressing. For our tastes half the lemon juice and water would have been better, I followed the recipe exactly and it was sour and runny. So I added more tahini and one more tablespoon soy sauce and its very good. I also used other herbs, as that's what I had on hand. All the basics are listed here for a great recipe, just needs tweaking for personal taste.
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EB
The conversions to ml are incorrect, just fyi. 1tsp is 5ml, not 1tbsp.
Kristine
So yummy! I poured this on a kale salad loaded with veggies. Will definitely make this one again, thank you for sharing!
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Thea
I was trying to make a copycat of this one myself! It's so good, eh? Thank you for this!
Lauren
I'm so stoked I stumbled upon this recipe. I had been making a different tahini dressing recipe that tasted just like the store bought kind. One day I couldn't find that and found that recipe and found this instead. And you know what? THANK GOODNESS I DID.
It's slighty different than your store bought tahini goddess dressing but in my opinion it's a million times better. If you are into flavors like myself you will love this. This is crack. I could drink this I am that obsessed.
I had to make the doubled version of this because the first time I made it I single handedly finished it in one day.
The only thing I didn't have on hand was chives but it was still incredible. Will have to try my next batch with chives. 10/10 THANK YOU FOR THIS.
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KayCee
We were looking for a recipe like this, our local pizza joint has a lemon tahini, and this was amazing! We didn’t have the fresh herbs, so used dried dill, parsley and dried chopped onion. This recipe will be one of our favorites! Thank you 🙏🏻
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Nat
I tried this, it didn't turn out anything close to the original dressing. This was so so sour! I just had the #2 bowl at the chopped leaf a day ago so I'm definitely not misremembering
Rosie
I am excited to make this. I have been looking for a recipe similar to the trader joe's tahini goddess dressing. This has pretty much the same ingredients except for the dill. Looking forward to trying it out!
Vanessa
Delicious! Next time I’ll use a little less dill but overall very impressed with how similar it is to the goddess dressing!
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Kaitlyn
Made the goddess dressing and I wish I could attach a photo of the result because it turned into this thick dark goo, nothing like what is pictured. Not sure what happened. Flavour went rancid.
SHANNON DAVIS
I found that the lemon juice and tahini really overwhelmed the flavor. I'm going to try remaking this recipe with less lemon juice and tahini (which I did find strong) and perhaps add more sesame oil/less olive oil and add a bit of mayonnaise for creaminess. I really like the unami part of the recipe but the tahini was too strong (if you don't love the taste of tahini on its own it would probably be best to use less of it) and I am not a fan of zesty lemon flavor in the dressings.
Brittany
Thank you for your input Shannon! I'll try to revisit this recipe and give it an update. Let me know how your next trial goes, I'd love to hear about it 🙂 I appreciate your taking the time to try the recipe and leave a comment.
shannon michelle
I followed the recipe instructions for this delicious dressing but found that the amount of lemon that it asks for is just a slight bit too much. I ended up decreasing it by about 2/3 to 1/2 the amount. In doing so the dressing turned out fabulous. I would suggest that anyone making this dressing add the lemon to taste!. It finally turned out perfect after this alteration. Thank you for posting this!
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Andrea
I would not make this recipe again, it was really strong lemon taste and cost a small fortune to make it. I was looking for a copycat recipe of chopped leaf Goddess dressing and figured with all the fresh ingredients it would be a hit, not the case!!
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Nicola Roberts
Amazing! we didn't even use the herbs and it blew me and my family away completely!
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William Mueller
Thank you so much, Nicola. We're super glad you and your family enjoyed it!
Kat
I've been searching for a recipe for Chopped Leaf's goddess dressing for awhile! Unfortunately, this recipe doesn't taste anything like the Chopped Leaf version. It's still tasty, but really just a tangy tahini. I'm new to tahini, so maybe I bought the wrong kind?
Andrea
I was looking for the goddess recipe too from chopped leaf! Way too much lemon and doesn’t taste alike
Genuine
Hi Kat,
I agree it is a really yummy refreshing recipe for sure... but...
I was too looking for the recipe, so I looked at the ingredients from the Chopped leaf website - and it is Canola oil, wheat free soy sauce, tahini, red wine vinegar, lemon juice, garlic, chives - just have to play around with how much of each till it tastes right.
No herbs and definitely less lemon and the red wine vinegar probably adds that flavour we are all looking for.
Glen
This has great flavour and the whole family enjoyed it!, thank you! Have you found/developed a recipe for the Pegasus salad? My son absolutely loves the dressing!!
Natalie
I recently went to Montreal and had a different bowl with the same tahini dressing. I have been searching for a recipe for a while. Thank you for posting this! i use tahini in most of my recipes and this dressing came out delicious, just the way i remember it.
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Karen
This was delicious! So happy I found I love vegan.com!
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Brittany
Thanks so much!
Natasha
Oh my gosh this is delicious!! One of the best tahini recipes that I have tried and I literally devoured it. Thanks so much!
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Brittany
Thank you so much Natasha! I'm so glad you enjoyed it! ♥
Carli
Thank you for this!
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Brittany
Thanks for commenting Carli!