Cauliflower Salad w/ Pumpkin Seed Tahini

            Lost in translation. I am looking for ways to incorporate pumpkin seed paste into my cooking. It's a delicious thick green paste made from toasted Styrian pumpkin seeds not unlike sesame seed paste. So why not use it in a similar way like tahini is used in the Middle East, as a condiment enhancing all kinds of dishes? As always I'm amazed that it's all in the name, tahini, meaning "grind" in Arabic, denoting the process of turning seeds into a paste rather than a particular seed. Voilà, the recipe for a green tahini sauce drizzled over a simple cauliflower salad. Enjoy!

Cauliflower Salad w/ Pumpkin Seed Tahini
Ingredients (serves 2):
- 1/2 medium cauliflower head, cut into small florets
- olive oil
- green pumpkin seed tahini sauce
- parsley and mint
- sweet paprika
- salt

Preheat the oven to 220 degrees C (450 degrees F) In a bowl, sprinkle oil over cauliflower, salt and massage thoroughly using your hands. Spread florets on a baking sheet and bake for 25min, stirring half way trough.

Arrange cauliflower on a plate. Drizzle with green pumpkin seed tahini sauce and sprinkle with parsley, mint, and paprika. Optional: season with ground Indian long pepper.

Green Pumpkin Seed Tahini Sauce
 Ingredients:
- 1 clove minced garlic 
- 2 tsp white wine vinegar
- 2 tsp pumpkin seed paste
- 1 tsp horseradish
- water
- salt

Soak the garlic in vinegar for 10min. Discard garlic, avoiding to eat it raw. In a small bowl, mix pumpkin seed paste with garlicky vinegar and horseradish. Adjust thickness by adding water, stirring and repeating the process until the sauce is runny. As a nice side effect, the color of the sauce turns from dark to a nice light green.

Inspired by Rawia Bishara's cauliflower salad in "Olives, Lemons & Za'atar - The Best Middle Eastern Home Cooking". She uses fried cauliflower and both sesame tahini and pomegranate molasses as a dressing.
   

Taken on: May 7, 2017

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