Merguez sausage is not commonly stocked at the grocery store, so I decided to come up with an easy home version.
Prep
19 min
Cook
48 min
Servings
Difficulty
Medium
Ingredients
1 teaspoon salt
0.25 teaspoons fennel seeds
1 teaspoon ground cumin
0.5 teaspoons ground cinnamon
0.5 teaspoons ground coriander
0.25 teaspoons ground turmeric
3 cloves garlic
, peeled
2 tablespoons harissa
, see Ingredient note
1 tablespoon tomato paste
1 pound lean ground lamb
1 tablespoon olive oil
Instructions
1
Combine salt and fennel seeds in a mortar and pestle and pound until fine. Stir cumin, cinnamon, coriander, turmeric, and garlic cloves into the salt mixture and continue grinding to form a thick paste. Stir in harissa sauce and tomato paste until combined.
2
Combine ground lamb and the spice paste together with a fork in a large bowl. Cover and refrigerate 8 hours to overnight.
3
Form sausage into patties. Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook patties until no longer pink inside, 5 to 8 minutes per side, depending on the size of the patties.
Nutrition per serving
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