Kale Salad with Creamy Lemon Tahini Dressing

As mentioned previously, I now live really close to one of Toronto’s great Fresh Restaurants and find myself eating there quite often. I’ve come to really enjoy their lemon tahini dressing and decided that it seemed simple enough to attempt to recreate at home.

Kale Salad with Creamy Lemon Tahini Dressing
Kale Salad with Creamy Lemon Tahini Dressing

I first worked out this easy tahini dressing a couple months ago, and poured it over a mixture of quinoa, greens, avocado, shredded cabbage and carrots. Then one day, I had a bunch of kale and hand and decided to make the dressing again to serve over it. The result is a creamy, tangy and super healthy salad that I just had to share.

Kale Salad with Creamy Lemon Tahini Dressing
Kale Salad with Creamy Lemon Tahini Dressing
Kale Salad with Creamy Lemon Tahini Dressing
Kale Salad with Creamy Lemon Tahini Dressing

Notes

  • If you’re new to kale or find the taste a bit overwhelming, feel free to use a mixture of kale and regular greens.
  • The benefit of using kale for this salad (beyond all its nutritional benefits) is that because the leaves are thicker than regular greens, any leftovers will hold-up nicely for a couple days in the fridge.
  • This salad contains chickpeas and avocados – two things that I toss into most of my ad-hoc salads. Bell peppers (capsicum) and/or shredded carrots would also be delicious.
  • If you make the dressing in a big bowl, and then mix the salad ingredients right in, it’s a one-pot meal.
  • This dressing is perfect with falafel – either straight-up, or in a pita.
Kale Salad with Creamy Lemon Tahini Dressing
Kale Salad with Creamy Lemon Tahini Dressing
Kale Salad with Creamy Lemon Tahini Dressing
Kale Salad with Creamy Lemon Tahini Dressing
Kale Salad with Creamy Lemon Tahini Dressing
Creamy Lemon Tahini Dressing
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Kale Salad with Creamy Lemon Tahini Dressing

You’ll love this creamy dressing with no added oil/fat. Vegan / Gluten-Free

  • Author: Angela @ Vegangela.com
  • Prep Time: 15 mins
  • Total Time: 15 mins
  • Yield: 4 1x
  • Category: Salad

Ingredients

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  • 1 head kale (or a blend of greens)
  • 1 cucumber, peeled and diced
  • 2 avocados, diced
  • 2 tomato, diced
  • 1 can garbanzo beans (chickpeas), drained and rinsed
  • Topping: hemp seeds (or other seeds such as sunflower, pumpkin)

Dressing

  • 1/2 cup tahini
  • 3/4 cup water
  • 1 lemon, juiced (about 2 or 3 tbsp)
  • 1 large garlic cloves, minced
  • Salt and pepper, to taste

Instructions

  1. Whisk all the dressing ingredients together. Add more water if needed.
  2. Toss dressing into the rest of the salad ingredients. Due to the thickness of the kale leaves, it should keep for a few days in the fridge.

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30 thoughts on “Kale Salad with Creamy Lemon Tahini Dressing”

  1. Hi! I just made this, and it is the first time that I have tried Tahini. It’s also the first time that I have eaten Kale in a salad vs. smoothie. I am very much enjoying this salad.

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  2. Thank you, thank you for this wonderful recipe. It is one of our favorites. Very fresh, yet filling. I have shared it and others love it too. I did reduce the water to 1/2 c. and increased the lemon juice to 1/4 c.

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  4. Thank you for such a wonderful website! I love it because instead of me focusing on “oh, this is vegan” , I think ” WOW, this looks so flavorful!”. I loved this recipe – first time eating tahini (besides in hummus) and raw kale. It seemed a little bitter to me — do you think it was me not being used to the kale, or maybe the tahini? I did cut it with a little spinach. Maybe it’s just my taste buds. But I will be eating this the rest of the week! Thank you!

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  5. This recipe looks so good I can’t wait to try it. I’m not a vegan but I have been trying to incorporate more and more vegan dishes into my diet in the hopes of soon having a strictly vegan diet. This looks like a great addition to the menu! My girlfriend and her mom love kale too so I’ll have to make this for them also.

    Thanks for the amazing website! This is my go to for vegan recipes right now.

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  6. I love this dressing. I’ve been making it for a few weeks and I use it on many salads. Thanks for sharing your lovely recipes. 🙂

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  7. This was a winner in our house! My non-vegan husband loved it too!!!! He brought some to work with him the next day.

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  8. Just made a simplified version of the tahini dressing and poured it over plain steamed kale as a dressing. It was superb! We substituted garlic powder for the fresh cloves and used a little Crazy Janes seasoning salt, but the end result was still phenomenal. We also ate black beans, and the tahini sauce mixed really well with the sauce from the beans. Thanks!

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  9. This looks so good, I will be trying this tonight.

    I love your site, as a budding vegan I find it VERY helpful and inspirational.

    Thank you so much 😉

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  10. Hello from Colorado! I am a relatively new vegan and I just had to tell you that I LOVE your site and have been cooking my way through it. All of your recipes are awesome and your instructions are so easy to follow. It’s been great to have found some new vegan staples that even my carnivorous friends can enjoy. Thank you!

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  11. Oh this looks fabulous … such great color and flavor combinations. The dressing is very similar to one I learned to make from a Lebanese chef in my area … it’s so good and works on all kinds of foods. Thank you for sharing … I can’t wait to pick up some kale and try it out!

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