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Vanilla Tahini with Fresh Berries & Orange Recipe

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A black bowl filled with fresh berries, sliced fruit, and mint leaves on top of a creamy plant-based vanilla tahini base.
A close-up of a mixed berry fruit salad with strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, orange segments, mint, and a drizzle of plant-based cream on top.

Tahini is one of the most versatile ingredients that you may not yet have in your pantry. While perhaps best known for its supporting role in hummus, its nutty sesame flavour lends itself beautifully to the sweet, saucy topping for this fruit medley.

You will need

Serves 2

For the dressing

  • 3 tablespoons tahini
  • 1 lemon, juiced
  • 1 tablespoon icing sugar
  • 1 vanilla bean pod

Fruit salad

  • 1/2 punnet strawberries
  • 1/2 punnet blueberries
  • 1/2 punnet raspberries*
  • 1 valencia orange, cut into bite-size pieces

For garnish

  • Mint leaves

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Directions

15 mins to prep

0 mins to cook

  1. Step 1

    Add tahini to a bowl with the juice of one lemon. Whisk together until it comes back together, then add the icing sugar and whisk into a paste. Add some water if needed to turn it into a pouring consistency.

  2. Step 2

    Cut the vanilla bean pod in half and scrape out the seeds. Add them to the tahini dressing and stir through.

  3. Step 3

    Add fruit into a bowl and toss to mix them up.

  4. Step 4

    Pour 3/4 of the tahini dressing into a serving bowl, add the fruit on top and drizzle the remaining dressing on top. Add sprigs of mint for garnish.

Variation

*Mix up the berry selection as per your preferences — blackberries and cherries work beautifully as well!

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