This is similar to my tahini-cashew sauce but I didn't have any cashews. I am getting to like plain tahini more and more. It's an acquired taste I guess, like many things.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup raw unhulled sesame seeds.
juice of 1 lemon. It was a juicy lemon so at least 3 Tbsp, which I believe is 1/4 cup.
1 clove garlic
2-4 dried apricots or 1-2 dates (optional)
small zucchini (optional)
or banana instead of zucchini and apricots/dates (optional)
1/2-1 cup soy milk or water
1 Tbsp veggiezest (optional--I didn't add it)
Rinse the sesame seeds and add them and soy milk and garlic and lemon juice to the vita-mix and let it blend up and get warm and cook the garlic a bit. That takes maybe 5 minutes? Add liquid as needed for desired consistency--today I'm using it as a sauce for a bunch of kale so think I used 1 cup of liquid. Then kind of experiment. see if 1 apricot added tastes better or worse. if better, maybe add another. I added 4 but actually thought it tasted fine without any. I added a small zucchini (peeled) to make the sauce go a little farther (and because I had one left in my almost empty refrigerator)--I thought this worked well. I considered adding a banana instead of the zucchini and apricot. I don't know if it'd be good or not but it would dull the strong taste of the sesame seeds, extend the sauce and add some sweetener.