Harissa and Coffee ... on a steak? Why not?

For this dinner I decided to have some fun and do a coffee crusted steak topped with a Harissa butter sauce.  For those who aren't familiar with it, Harissa is a spice mix that is a staple of Tunisian cuisine.  The spice combines (mainly) sweet and spicy peppers along with onion, garlic, coriander, caraway and cumin.

For this dinner I started with a blended corse ground coffee beans with salt and garlic pepper and then coated both sides of the steak with it.

To make the Harissa sauce, I first browned about 2 tbsp of butter.  To brown butter you cook it over medium-high heat until it foams (about 5 minutes) and then cook another two to three minutes, stirring frequently until it browns.  Remove from heat and then stir in 1 spoonful of dried Harissa powder (I used the Whole Foods version for this meal).

I grilled the steak, and finished it with my SearzAll (of course), topping it with Harissa butter and then served it over mashed sweet potatoes with sautéed squash.