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Merguez Sausages
Posted:
Sat Apr 28, 2007 11:10 pmby akesingland
Hi All
Just tried my merguez sausages. I used the recipie from "Casa Moro - The Second Cookbook" - Clark & Clark, changed it a bit as I had no dried rosebuds or rose water! Here it is:
888g Lamb breast
982g Lamb shoulder
4 rounded tbsp smoked sweet paprika
1 tsp ground black pepper
2 tsp fennel seeds ground
2 tbsp cumin seeds ground
1.5 tsp ground cinnamon
4 tsp fine sea salt
67g fresh corriander chopped
10 garlic cloves peeled and crushed
4 tbsp harrisa (I used Barts)
I didn't have any sheep casing so they went into very unauthentic hog casings. They tasted very fragrant but not too hot, this may be the potency of the Harissa. I may try the harrissa recipe in the same book.
No picture as camera is still broke.
Cheers
Adam
Posted:
Sun Apr 29, 2007 12:34 pmby georgebaker
Hi
did you skin the breast or just mince all of it?
George
Posted:
Sun Apr 29, 2007 12:51 pmby Spuddy
georgebaker wrote:Hi
did you skin the breast or just mince all of it?
George
What skin?
I thought the skin (hide) was removed before it gets out of the abattoir, or am I wrong?
Posted:
Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:20 pmby akesingland
Hi All
I removed a few bones, didn't see any skin!
Cheers
Adam
Posted:
Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:25 pmby Hobbitfeet
You should be able to get rose water from any Asian store. If that's not available, try kewra water, which is a little more concentrated.
Posted:
Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:17 amby jpj
i pick up rose water from the bakery section of a local shop, so you could try that way also . . . ..
Posted:
Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:31 amby akesingland
Cheers Guys
I can get both waters at the end of my road, I have a great Asian cash and carry (Sunrup) on Pinner Road, Harrow where I but all my herbs and spices from. Just on that evening I didn't happen to have any on the shelf. We are really lucky in Harrow for asian ingredients, I just wished we had an oriental supermarket closer. Although there is Oriental City in Collindale!
Cheers
Adam
Posted:
Tue May 01, 2007 5:30 pmby jenny_haddow
Hi Adam,
Venture into Burnt Oak if you want some interesting ingredients, it's only one stop away from Colindale, so you could do Oriental city too. I travel from Cambridge and shop there for my 'interesting' ingredients.
Cheers
Jen
Posted:
Tue May 01, 2007 7:09 pmby aris
akesingland wrote:Cheers Guys
I can get both waters at the end of my road, I have a great Asian cash and carry (Sunrup) on Pinner Road, Harrow where I but all my herbs and spices from. Just on that evening I didn't happen to have any on the shelf. We are really lucky in Harrow for asian ingredients, I just wished we had an oriental supermarket closer. Although there is Oriental City in Collindale!
Cheers
Adam
Adam,
There is an asian supermarket in Watford near Bushey Arches. Not terribly far from you - but also nothing like the Oriental City. The food court there is just fantastic. You can read about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_CityAparently they want to knock it down for re-development though.