• We’re gearing up for braai season and a weekend of sports with this juicy T-bone steak with homemade harissa.

    Braaied T-bone steak with homemade harissa

    Serves: 4
    Cooking Time: 25 min Total Time: 45 min

    Ingredients

    • Make-ahead
    • 66 dried guailo chillies
    • 20 grams birds eye chilli
    • 1 tsp cumin seeds, toasted
    • 3 garlic cloves, minced
    • 1 1/2 tbsp sherry vinegar
    • 1 tsp sugar
    • 1/2 cup olive oil
    • 1 tsp coarse salt
    • Steaks
    • 4 T-bone steaks
    • 2 cos lettuce heads, quartered
    • 8 spring onions
    • 2 tbsp olive oil
    • Thyme, to serve

    Instructions

    1

    PREPARE the harissa by soaking the dried chillies in hot water for a minimum of 1 hour or overnight. Give them a good chop.

    2

    BLEND the softened chillies, with all of the rest of the ingredients except the olive oil. Once everything is well combined into a course, yet fine basting sauce. Add the olive oil while the food processor is blending. Season the harissa well and set aside.

    STEAKS

    3

    Brush the steaks with a generous amount of harissa and place them in the braai grid over the coals. Braai for 4 minutes a side or until the internal temperature reads 55℃, allow the steaks to rest for 10 minutes. While the steaks rest, brush your lettuce leaves and spring onions with some oil and grill.

    4

    SERVE the t-bone steaks with some fresh thyme and your grilled lettuce and spring onions.

    Notes

    To save on time, you can use store bought harissa paste instead.

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