Roasted Rainbow Vegetables With Homemade Tahini Sauce

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This Roasted Rainbow Vegetables with Tahini Dressing dish is a sheet pan recipe in a variety of colors. A fun way to eat your veggies!

Roasted Rainbow Vegetables on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper with the words Rainbow Vegetables with Tahini

Sheet Pan Rainbow Vegetables

When looking for a delicious dinner vegetable recipe, basic green can get a little boring. Why not pretty up your table with some Roasted Rainbow Vegetables with Tahini Dressing instead!

Healthy meals aren’t always fun, so this is an easy way to fix that. With items that you can pick up at any grocery store, this is a healthy side dish or main dish with vibrant color as well as various health benefits. 

These colorful rainbow veggies are rich in Vitamin A and beta carotene (carrots), powerful antioxidants, and Vitamin C (broccoli) plus more, in addition to being interesting textures because they are all different. 

As salad dressings go, you may not think of creamy tahini first. You see it as a staple ingredient in middle eastern recipes like baba ganoush or a hummus recipe, but this easy tahini recipe will change your mind. 

With a few simple ingredients, this easy homemade tahini recipe will pair beautifully with your sheet pan vegetables. It has a little bit of a nutty flavor, although it does not contain nuts.

With ground sesame seeds that you will turn into a tahini paste (sometimes called sesame paste if they’re derived from toasted sesame seeds instead of raw), a pinch of salt, and more, this could easily become one of your favorite recipes to top your veggies with. 

These roast vegetables are naturally vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, egg-free, nut-free, and dairy-free. They are a great way to serve a variety of dietary needs in addition to being one of the easy weeknight dinners that you can add to your monthly meal plan. 

Recipe Notes:

  • You can use bottled lemon juice or fresh lemon juice.
  • Offer red pepper flakes on the table so that everyone has the option to give their vegetable servings a little spice. 
  • Although there are no nuts in this easy recipe, some people with nut allergies have sensitivity to sesame seeds, which is the main ingredient of your raw tahini. Make sure you mention this before serving it to someone with a nut allergy.

Roasted Rainbow Veggies in a blue bowl topped with drizzles of tahini dressing next to a red striped fabric napkin and a metal fork

Rainbow Dinner Vegetables

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups cherry tomatoes, halved
1 1/2 cups orange carrots and/or orange bell pepper, chopped
1 1/2 cups yellow bell pepper, chopped
1 1/2 cups zucchini, chopped
1 1/2 cups broccoli florets
1 1/2 cups red onion, chopped
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 teaspoons garlic powder
Salt and pepper to taste

Tahini dressing:
1/4 cup tahini powder
2 tablespoons water
2 teaspoons lemon juice
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon paprika

A chopped rainbow of vegetables on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper

How To Make Roasted Rainbow Vegetables:

Preheat your oven to 425 degrees and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper or foil. Rinse the vegetables under a little water to make sure everything is clean. 

Chop up all of your fresh veggies and lay them on your sheet pan in a single layer according to the colors of the rainbow. An even layer of your onion slices will be on the bottom, broccoli crowns and zucchini above them, yell0w pepper above those, then your orange carrots and orange pepper, followed by your red tomatoes. 

Drizzle the chopped vegetables with extra-virgin olive oil, and some garlic powder, sea salt, and black pepper to taste.

Roasted rainbow veggies on a sheet pan lined with parchment paperCook the vegetables in the oven for 20 to 25 minutes.

While your dinner vegetables are baking, cook your quinoa, rice, riced cauliflower, or couscous in your preferred method. 

A sheet pan of baked rainbow veggies

How To Make Homemade Tahini Dressing:

Next, make your tahini dressing. In a small bowl, combine the tahini powder, water, lemon juice, salt, and paprika and whisk until smooth. You can use a high-speed blender or a mini food processor if you’d like, but you shouldn’t need to. Set it aside.

When the rainbow veggies are done, remove the baking tray from the oven and allow them to cool for about 5 minutes.

Tahini sauce in a glass with a spoon in front of an open mason jar of sesame seedsSpoon the cooked starch (or the like) of your choice into four bowls or plates and top it with veggies, making sure that you have a rainbow order for each. Drizzle some of your lemon tahini dressing over the top of the whole thing and enjoy!

Store any leftover tahini sauce in an airtight container or glass jar in the refrigerator for up to 1 week. 

A sheet pan of baked rainbow veggies on a table above a blue bowl of rainbow vegetables with tahini sauce next to a red fabric napkin and a metal fork

Can I Use Different Colorful Vegetables For Each Color Of The Rainbow?

Yes! Feel free to use seasonal vegetables for this sheet pan meal. Some good alternatives are red bell peppers or radishes for your red vegetables, butternut squash or sweet potatoes for your orange vegetables, yellow squash or yellow tomatoes for your yellow vegetables, brussels sprouts, green beans, or collard greens for your green vegetables, or red cabbage, purple potatoes, purple carrots, or purple cabbage for your purple vegetables. Mix and match your favorite vegetables as you’d like!

What Should I Serve With This Great Recipe?

This roasted veggies with tahini recipe is best made with a starch or companion to place underneath it in the bowl. My best suggestions are white rice or brown rice, couscous, or quinoa, but you can also use cauliflower rice or anything else that you come up with. 

A blue bowl of Roasted Rainbow Veggies and Tahini Sauce on a white table next to the sheet pan with the rest

How Long Does This Tahini Sauce Recipe Last? 

While store-bought tahini will last a long time because of the preservatives, if you are making your own tahini, the creamy sauce will last in the refrigerator for up to a week. If you leave the jar of tahini out at room temperature, it will last only 2 or 3 days at the most. 

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Yield: 4 servings

Roasted Rainbow Vegetables with Tahini

Rainbow Veggies in a bowl

This Roasted Rainbow Vegetables with Tahini Dressing dish is a sheet pan recipe in a variety of colors. A fun way to eat your veggies!

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups cherry tomatoes, halved
  • 1 1/2 cups carrots and/or orange bell peppers, chopped
  • 1 1/2 cups yellow bell pepper, chopped
  • 1 1/2 cups zucchini, chopped
  • 1 1/2 cups broccoli florets
  • 1 1/2 cups red (purple) onion, chopped
  • 2 Tbsp olive oil
  • 2 tsp garlic powder
  • Salt and pepper to taste

Tahini dressing:

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 425 degrees and line a large sheet pan with parchment paper or foil.
  2. Chop up your vegetables and lay them on your sheet pan in a single layer. Drizzle them with olive oil and sprinkle of garlic powder, salt and pepper.
  3. Cook the vegetables in the oven for 20 to 25 minutes.
  4. While your dinner vegetables are baking, cook your quinoa, rice, riced cauliflower or couscous in your preferred method. 
  5. Next, make your tahini dressing. In a small bowl, combine the tahini powder, water, lemon juice, salt and paprika and whisk until smooth. Set it aside.
  6. When the rainbow veggies are done, remove them from the oven and allow them to cool for about 5 minutes.
  7. Spoon the cooked starch (or the like) of your choice into four bowls or plates and top it with veggies, making sure that you have a rainbow of vegetables in each. Drizzle some tahini dressing over the top of each and enjoy!

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

4

Serving Size:

1

Amount Per Serving: Calories: 257Total Fat: 16gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 13gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 292mgCarbohydrates: 28gFiber: 8gSugar: 11gProtein: 7g

This calculation is intended for informational purposes only. I am not a doctor or dietician. This calculator is a guide, but makes no guarantee of being exact or fully accurate.

Rainbow vegetables on a sheet pan with the words Rainbow Vegetables with Tahini

A sheet pan with green yellow orange and red chopped vegetables next to a blue bowl with rainbow vegetables on top of rice with a drizzle of homemade tahini

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