Merguez Sausages

[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

[georgebaker]

Hi
did you skin the breast or just mince all of it?
George

[Spuddy]

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?

[akesingland]

Hi All

I removed a few bones, didn't see any skin!

Cheers
Adam

[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.

[jpj]

i pick up rose water from the bakery section of a local shop, so you could try that way also . . . ..

[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

[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

[aris]

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_City

Aparently they want to knock it down for re-development though.