Take a large cooking pot and roast the crushed cumin seeds, until a delicious scent is released, pour the cumin seeds on a plate.
Cut the merguez into small pieces and color them in the same cooking pot with olive oil.
Spoon the merguez on a plate with kitchen paper and keep aside.
Pour half the fat away, and color the finely chopped onion and garlic to the other half of the fat.
In the meantime, peel and cut the carrot and sweet potato into cubes, and also the celery and bell pepper. Add this to the onion and garlic and fry.
Now add thyme, bay leaf, paprika, the roasted cumin seeds, the tomato cubes, passata, water and stock cubes, season with salt and pepper, let everything boil.
Lower the heat and simmer for 25 minutes.
Taste and season with salt and pepper if necessary.
Serve in deep plates and finish with sour cream, parsley and fried merguez.
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