Nigella is one of my favourite cook author and I have purchased many of her cooking books! One of my favourite recipe is from her ‘Nigella Express’ book is the ‘Merguez with Halloumi and Flame -Roasted Peppers’. This is such a simple dish to make and prep so I always make sure that I have a jar of roasted peppers in my pantry and have the halloumi and chorizo in my fridge as they have a longer fridge life. I remembered when I first looked at this recipe, I couldn’t find any Merguez which is a spicy sausage so I used Chorizo instead and include a few pork sausages in the dish as well as we love our meats! 🙂 I have made a few adjustments to her recipe.
Ingredients: 1 chorizo sliced up, 6 – 8 pack of sausages of your choice, 1 block of Halloumi cheese, 1 jar of Roasted Red Peppers and 2 x tbs of oil, 1 x tsp lazy garlic, 1 x tsp of mixed herbs and 1 x tsp oregano.
Method:
- Preheat the oven the Gas Mark 7 and put all the sausages in a big roasting tin with the oil. Cook for approx. 10 minutes so that the sausages are abit browned.
- Cut the halloumi in to 5mm slices and lay them around the sausages, take the peppers out and put them around the cheese and sausages. You might want to cut them into smaller pieces and drizzle the oil on top of everything and sprinkle all the herbs.
- Cook for 20 minutes or until when the sausages is cooked. Serve with some crusty bread and salad.
Sometimes, I add some boiled potatoes in the tin and roast them with all the other ingredients. Makes the dish more filling and we have this with bread because there are a lot of juices. We normally have left overs for the next day, and it taste even better as all the flavours are absorbed.
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