25 Easy Sauce Recipes

If you looking for sauce recipes to level up salads, vegetable side dishes, and pasta, you’ve come to the right place!

These delicious and easy sauces and dressings areeasyto make,healthy,fresh,and vibrant. We’ve listed 25 of our best condiments and dips that can help you dress your next meal, such as pesto, vinaigrette, mayonnaise, sour cream, and creamy dressing.

Browse through this list, and take your pick: these healthy sauces will make those greens pop and add extra nutrition to your meal.

Honey mustard Dressing

The first recipe on our list is this basic mustard and lemon vinaigrette, perfect for salads and vegetable side dishes. It makes simple veggies pop, try it on steamed asparagus and roasted bell pepper and taste the difference.

Italian Dressing

Homemade Italian dressingis a simple vinaigrette recipe to addflavor,freshness, andaromato many salads. A classic dressing that levels up green salads and pasta salads immediately.

Vegan Sour Cream

Sour cream is perfect on potatoes, with soups, and as a dip with nachos. Try this velvety creamy version with your next baked potato, nachos, or Taco Tuesday, or as an easy appetizer.

Marinara Sauce

This Italian marinara sauce is easy, versatile, and perfect with pizza, pasta, and mains. It's a simple base recipe that is a lifesaver if you're short on time and need a quick and tasty dinner on the table.

Vegan Mayo

This guide for vegan mayowill teach you the tips and tricks of mayonnaise. It's tasty, versatile, and so easy to make that you can do it in literally 1 minute with 6 simple ingredients. Serve it with fries, in a BLT sandwich, or as a spread in your next burger!

Eggplant Dip - Baba Ganoush

A scrumptious dip with a velvety and creamy texture, this eggplant dip is perfect with crostini, pita bread, and fresh veggies.

Vegan Basil Pesto

We'll show youhow to make the best vegan pestowith basil. Then we demonstrate how easy it is to change the flavoring ingredient and make pesto with your favoriteherbsandveggies.

Olive Tapenade

Technically not a sauce, but this olive tapenade spread deserves a spot on this list. It's perfect with crostini as an easy appetizer and great in sandwiches too!

Tahini Sauce

Ready in 5 mins with just 5 ingredients! Rich, creamy, nutty, and nutritious,tahini sauceis a favorite drizzle-on everything sauce. We love it with this crispy tofu salad.

Carrot Ginger Dressing

Refreshing, healthy, and bright, this carrot ginger dressing is perfect for salads and ready in 5 mins in a blender. It pairs well with Asian-inspired dishes, noodle bowls, and grilled vegetables.

Italian Salsa Verde

Refreshing, tangy, and aromatic, this Italian salsa verde is wonderful with roasted, steamed, and fresh veggies. It takes 5 minutes to prepare and stores in the fridge for about 3 days.

White Bean Dip

Our aromatic and mega-easy bean dip is perfect for game night and an appetizer platter. Serve with crackers or toasted bread and a sprinkle of parsley on top.

Guacamole

Simple, easy, and endlessly creamy. This is an amazing guacamole recipe that takes only minutes to make, and pairs well with nachos, burritos, baked potatoes, and on toast. Made with avocado, lime juice, red onion and salt.

Chimichurri Recipe

Another tex mex favorite on our list is this herby chimichurri sauce.

It's wonderful on roasted, baked, and steamed veggies and as a bold marinade for legumes too!

Tzatziki

Perfect for the summer: BBQs, grilling, and hot evenings.

Tzatziki sauce is easy!All you need is Greek yogurt, cucumber, garlic, lemon juice, olive oil, salt, and dill, and just over15 minutesto make this irresistible recipe.

Green Goddess Dressing

Green goddess dressingis a creamy salad dressing made withplenty of fresh herbs.Brighten up your healthy meals with this green sauce favorite!

Easy White Sauce (Béchamel)

Perfect with pasta bakes, lasagna, and as a sauce on baked veggies. In our white sauce, we use olive oil and plant milk to make a sauce that is asdelicious and versatileas the original béchamel.

Quick Chipotle Sauce

Thiseasy chipotle saucetakes5 minutesto make, and it's literally good on anything.

From french fries to baked vegetables, nachos, fajitas, andflatbread pizza.

Cilantro Lime Dressing

Make this dressing in5 minutes with 7 ingredientsin a blender. This recipe is healthy, dairy-free, vegan, gluten-free, and perfect to brighten up your favorite meal.

Romesco Sauce

The perfect condiment foreverything grilled. You can make aquick romesco in 5 minuteswith pantry staples, or a more authentic one in about 45. We'll show you 2 versions.

Parsley Pesto

This Parsley Pestois a simple recipe that’s made in 5 minutes in a food processor. It’s so fast and easy to make, and it tastes really delicious on almost anything!

Red Pepper Pesto

Red pepper pesto is possiblyone of the most flavorful pestosyou'll ever try. Made with jarred roasted red peppers and sun-dried tomatoes, this red pesto packs a punch, and is great on sourdough bread and in sandwiches.

Arugula Pesto

Refreshing and bright green! Thislight and healthyrecipe for arugula pesto tastes wonderfulover pastaand can also be used in other ways. We keep the recipedairy-freeso that anyone can enjoy it.

Muhammara

Middle-Eastern cuisine has abundant options for dips, and dressing for a mezze platter. This muhammara is a tomato and bell pepper condiment that works well as a dip, or as a pairing with grilled vegetables.

Chili Oil

It's aquick and simple recipethat allows you to makespicy chili oilfrom scratch in just over 10 minutes. A perfectly spiced Italian version of the original chili oil, perfect with roasted and steamed veggies.

How to serve your sauce and dressings

Drizzle your choice of sauce, dressing, or dip with a vegetable side dish or salad:

Grilled zucchini, roasted bell peppers, and eggplant (green goddess dressing).
Smashed potatoes (chimichurri sauce and tomato salsa).
Roasted carrots (salsa verde and tahini sauce).
Microwave sweet potatoes (cilantro lime dressing, guacamole, tahini sauce).

Grilled Zucchini
Smashed Potatoes
Roasted Carrots
Microwave Sweet Potato

Combine your favorite sauces and load your roasted veggies with a symphony of condiments:

Whole roasted cauliflower with tahini dressing, chimichurri sauce, and shaved almonds
Air fryer sweet potatoes with avocado spread, cilantro lime dressing, and tomato salsa.
10-minute air fryer zucchini with chipotle dressing and salsa verde.

How to store homemade sauces

Store these sauces and dressings in an air-tight container in the fridge. Eat within 2-3 days of making them, but they are best and freshest on the day of preparing them.

For pesto sauces,use them straight awayorrefrigerate them immediatelyto prevent them from turning brown due to oxidation. If you want to keep it for longer, then freeze it.Pesto freezes wellfor up to6 months.Put it in a small jar or in ice cube trays to have smaller portions at hand.

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25 Easy Sauces

By: Nico Pallotta

5 from 3 votes

Creamy, nutty, rich, or sweet, tangy and herby,these 25 sauces are the perfect favorite drizzle-on everything condiments. Take your pick from these dressings, pesto and dips that brighten up your salads, side dishes, and grain bowls.

This recipe is for an authentic tahini sauce, one that is not bitter, with just 5 simple ingredients.

Prep Time: 5 minutes mins

Cook Time: 0 minutes mins

Total Time: 5 minutes mins

Servings: 11 tablespoons

Course: Dressing & Sauces

Cuisine: Middle-Eastern

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Ingredients

⅓ cup tahini made with 100% hulled sesame seeds, light-colored
⅓ cup water
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 clove garlic crushed
¼ teaspoon salt

Instructions

Take the jar of tahini and stir the content with a spoon. It's possible that if you haven't used it in a while the sesame oils and the sesame paste separate, so giving it a quick stir before using it helps.
Pour tahiniinto a medium bowl, then addfresh lemon juice,water, a peeled and crushedgarlicclove, andsalt.
Whisk for about a minute or two, until ingredients are combined and the tahini changes color and goes from light brown to beige.
Taste and adjust forsaltandlemon juice. Tahini sauce should be creamy but quite runny.
Keep in mind that as it sits, the sauce thickens up slightly. You might need to add a little more water until you reach your desired consistency.

Video

Tahini Sauce | a favorite drizzle-on-everything sauce

Notes

Nutrition information is for 1 tablespoon of tahini sauce.

Nutrition

Calories: 44kcal, Carbohydrates: 2g, Protein: 1g, Fat: 4g, Saturated Fat: 1g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g, Monounsaturated Fat: 1g, Trans Fat: 0g, Cholesterol: 0mg, Potassium: 37mg, Dietary Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 1g, Vitamin A: 5IU, Vitamin B6: 1mg, Vitamin C: 1mg, Vitamin E: 1mg, Vitamin K: 1µg, Calcium: 11mg, Folate: 8µg, Iron: 1mg, Manganese: 1mg, Magnesium: 7mg, Zinc: 1mg

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