Merguez Hot Dog – North African Haute Dog
The North African Merguez Hot Dog is your BBQ party succes formula! Combine this delicous spicy hot dog with fresh notes of mint and lemon with a delicious india saison and your guests will start dancing right away. Have you lid the BBQ? What are you waiting for? Time to party!
Servings 4 Hot Dogs
Ingredients
- 4 Merguez sausages
- 4 buns
- 2 sweet bell peppers
Baked onion
- 4 yellow onions
- 1/4 cup ricard or pernod
- 1/4 cup water
- 2 Tbsp Harissa
Couscous crackling
- 4 Tbsp couscous
- 1/2 tsp ground cumin seeds
- 1/2 tsp ground coriander seeds
- 1 tsp cinnamon powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
Lemon Marmelade
- 1 lemon
- 200 ml Lavender Thee or another kind of thee
- 1/2 glas sugar (200 ml. glas)
- 1 handful fresh mint
Goat cheese
- 50 gr. goat cheese
- 2 tbsp freshly chopped mint
Instructions
- Preheat your BBQ for a direct session at mid heat (+- 150 à 200°C). For this recipe I've used my Classic Joe II
- Cut the onion in thin rings and put in an oiled cast iron pan. Pour over the Ricard and water.
- Put the skillet in your BBQ and let the onions fry for about 25-30 min. until they've browned nicely. Stir every once a while to prevent them from burning. Meanwhile you can burn the sweet bell peppers.
- Remove the sweet bell peppers and set aside to cool down. This way you can easily remove the blackened peel. While the peppers are cooling down you can add Harissa, salt and pepper at taste to the onions.
Couscous crackling
- While frying the onions it's couscous time. Pour some oil in a pan and add the spices. Let them cook for a minute or 2 on medium heat to release the flavors.
- Add the couscous pearls and stir every once a while until they are golden brown and smell fantastic.
Lemon Marmelade
- Heat 200 ml. Water in a saucepan. When boiling turn down the heat and add the tea. Infuse the water with the tea for about 3 minutes and remove the tea.
- Add a half glas of sugar and the peeled lemon. Turn on the heat and let cook through until the liquid gets a syrup look.
- Add 1 tbsp freshly chopped mint.
Goat cheese
- Grate the goat cheese and mix some fresh mint under the grated goat cheese.
Composing the hot dog
- Grill your Merguez sausages until done.
- Cut the bread on one side open it and grill the surface until it's browned.
- Add some Harissa onions to the bread and put the blackend bell pepper on the other side. Add the Merguez sausage.
- Pour some of the hot lemon marmelade over the Merguez sausage.
- Finish with the goat cheese, mint and couscous crackling.