Ola! The homemade cassoulet! The truth ! It takes time to cook but it's worth it! When I prepare it, I always make a big portion for the following days or to also offer to my neighbors :) The cassoulet is an ancestral French recipe! Everyone chooses the meat they want to put in it, since the dawn of time, cassoulet has been made with different meats. I like my version with pork, sausages and duck leg confit. It's a dish that warms hearts and homes ♥ After that, it's no longer possible to buy cans of cassoulet. This cassoulet recipe is approved by the whole family. It's a medieval recipe. It was the dish of the poor. Cassoulet takes its name from the container in which it was prepared: the cassole. This kind of stew that cooks for a long time makes this dish unique. It is one of the best French dishes. Legend has it that during the siege of Castelnaudary by the English, the inhabitants, threatened with starvation, put together all the food they had on hand in a large bowl to feed the soldiers of the city as well... is this dish that would have given the strength to the soldiers to put the English out of Lauragais, to the edge of the Channel. Good tasting !
Ingredients :
500g white beans
2 cloves
2 onions
1 carrot
1 bouquet garni: thyme, bay leaf, rosemary and sage
1 pinch of baking soda
1 tablespoon of lard
2 smoked pork rinds
600g smoked pork belly
6 tablespoons of tomato puree
8 pork sausages
1 garlic sausage
OPTIONAL: 1 duck leg confit