It really was all about the sauce. Drippy. Oozy. Luscious.
We’re talking about dinner last night.
Let’s take a quick minute to revel in the bliss of last evening’s table-for-one-please, at cozy Chez Julia.
This was my favourite type of meal – delicious, with an underbelly of nutritional goodness. The type of food that makes me feel decadent, while continuing to tow the (nutritional) party line.
So, here it is:
First, I made the sauce.
Tahini Sauce (adapted from bonzaiaphrodite.com)
Ingredients
1/4 cup raw sesame tahini (I used New World’s)
1 tbsp. fresh lemon juice OR raw apple cider vinegar (with the mother)
1 tbsp. nutritional yeast, heaping
1 tbsp. tamari
1 clove garlic, crushed
1/2 tsp cumin
1 tsp mild curry powder, heaping
Himalayan sea salt, to taste
Directions
Mix all ingredients together in bowl. Add more or less of any ingredient, to taste (play around a bit, to suit your palate). You may want to thin out with a bit of water, to help make creamy and ‘mix-able.’
This recipe can easily be doubled, or tripled, and can be used as a tasty dip.
Next, I spiralized a cucumber.
Then, I spiralized a zucchini.
A lovely mess of noodles!
The noodles went into a bowl, along with:
a handful of grape tomatoes, sliced
a handful of black pitted olives, sliced
1/2 sweet onion, diced
a few big dollops of the tahini sauce
I gently mixed it all up, added a bit more nutritional yeast, and scattered raw pumpkin seeds atop. A simple green salad was the perfect accompaniment to this easy Saturday dinner for one.
Yum!
