Spicy Sausages & Butter Bean Stew Recipe

This flavourful one-pot dish really showcases merguez sausages at their best. These long, thin, and spicy lamb and beef sausages originate from the Middle East and North Africa. This week, our Lidgate Merguez Sausages are on offer and would go fantastically in this stew with this spicy Yemeni herby hot sauce. This stew can be served with some crusty bread and lemon wedges or alongside fluffy steamed rice and a sprinkling of coriander. Great for a fuss-free midweek meal or any family gathering, this recipe is straightforward and a dependable crowd-pleaser.

INGREDIENTS

4 Lidgate Merguez Sausages

5 cherry tomatoes (halved)

3 tbsp Harissa paste

1 red chilli (finely chopped)

50g black olives (halved)

250ml beef stock

400g tinned chopped tomatoes

2 tins of butter beans

1 tsp smoked paprika

1 red onion (finely diced)

3 garlic cloves (grated)

For the Zhug

Handful of parsley (roughly chopped)

Handful of coriander (roughly chopped)

1 green chilli (finely chopped)

1 tsp ground cumin

1 tsp ground coriander

1 lemon (juiced)

Olive oil

1 tbsp red wine vinegar

METHOD

1.     Preheat your oven to 180℃.

2.     Brown your sausages in an oven-safe pan with a splash of oil on high (you don't have to cook them through). Remove them from the pan and either leave whole or cut into chunks – set aside.

3.     Reduce heat to medium and in the same pan, add the onion, with a knob of butter. Once softened, add the garlic and chilli and cook for a minute or two, until fragrant.

4.     Now add the paprika, harissa, and tomato paste and cook until it begins to darken.

5.     Add the cherry tomatoes and tinned tomatoes with the stock. Stir and add the olives, white beans and season with salt and pepper.

6.     Place the sausages back into the pan and in the oven for 30 mins (or until the sausages are cooked through).

7.     For the Zhug sauce, add parsley, coriander, chilli, cumin, ground coriander, lemon juice, and red wine vinegar to a food processor and pulse until everything is smooth, then add olive oil to taste. Taste for seasoning, then set aside.

8.     When your sausages are cooked, remove your pan from the oven. Drizzle over your zhug, then serve with crusty bread and lemon wedges or whatever you like!

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