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Dips and sauces are essential to many Mediterranean meals, adding acidity, creaminess, herbs, garlic, spice, and texture to vegetables, bread, grilled foods, and legumes.
Hummus, tahini-based sauces, toum, and other preparations show how a small number of ingredients can create powerful flavors. These foods are often shared at the table and used across several different dishes.
Balance richness with acidity and freshness. Lemon juice, garlic, herbs, spices, and water can help create a lighter-feeling sauce without sacrificing flavor.
Tahini can thicken dramatically when lemon juice is added; gradually incorporating cold water can create a smooth consistency. Garlic-based sauces also benefit from careful emulsification and gradual adjustment.
Classic Mediterranean dips and flavorful sauces.
A classic Palestinian hummus bi-tahini made with exceptionally tender chickpeas, creamy tahini, fresh lemon juice, garlic, cumin, and extra virgin olive oil. The finished hummus is smooth, light, and balanced, with warm Arabic bread for serving.
A creamy tzatziki sauce recipe made with thick Greek yogurt, cucumber, garlic, fresh dill, optional mint, lemon juice, and extra virgin olive oil. This Lebanese-style yogurt sauce is cool, tangy, refreshing, and perfect with grilled chicken, shawarma, falafel, vegetables, wraps, warm pita, and mezze.
A Lebanese toum made with fresh garlic, lemon juice, avocado oil, aquafaba, and sea salt. The sauce is intensely garlicky, bright with lemon, and remarkably light and fluffy, making it a classic accompaniment to shawarma, grilled meats, potatoes, sandwiches, and mezze.
A classic tahini sauce made with sesame tahini, fresh lemon juice, garlic, parsley, olive oil, and cold water. This Lebanese-style sauce becomes smooth and pourable as the tahini is gradually loosened, making it a natural companion to falafel, shawarma, grilled foods, vegetables, and mezze.
This green zhoug sauce recipe, also known as zhug or schug, combines fresh cilantro, parsley, green chilies, garlic, cumin, coriander, cardamom, lemon juice, and extra virgin olive oil. A vibrant Yemeni hot sauce with fresh herbs and bold chili heat, it is quick to prepare and perfect with falafel, shawarma, grilled meats, eggs, roasted vegetables, sandwiches, wraps, and mezze.
This harissa yogurt sauce recipe combines creamy Greek yogurt with Tunisian harissa, fresh garlic, lemon juice, extra virgin olive oil, parsley, mint, cumin, and smoked paprika for a smoky, spicy, tangy, and refreshing dip. A quick North African and Mediterranean-inspired yogurt sauce that is perfect with grilled chicken, lamb, fish, falafel, roasted vegetables, sandwiches, wraps, grain bowls, and mezze.
An authentic amba sauce recipe for a bright, tangy Iraqi mango condiment made with pickled mango, turmeric, fenugreek, garlic, lemon juice, and warm spices.
An authentic Chermoula sauce recipe made with fresh cilantro, parsley, garlic, lemon, extra virgin olive oil, and warm spices for a vibrant Moroccan herb sauce and marinade.
