Easy Cassoulet

A tasty french dish cooked with ingredients you can get at your local supermarket or butcher. #frenchcooking #cassoulet #isolationcooking #coronacooking #corona #homecook #curlygirl

Ingredients:
4 - 6 toulouse sausages
2 duck legs (and a large dollop of duck fat) or 200-300g of duck breast cut into small chunks (2 cm) or chicken legs and thighs with skin on.
6-8 rashers of bacon
2 400g cans of white beans
Two 400g cans of crushed tomatoes
1 -2 tablespoons of butter
1 onion
1-3 cloves of garlic
1 tablespoon of tomato paste
1 carrot diced into small 1 cmish pieces
2 cups of chicken stock
1 bay leaf
1 teaspoon of thyme
pepper
Method:
Brown all the meat in batches (starting with the duck so it flavours everything) in the same cast iron pan at a medium heat- do not cook at the way through. Remove and set aside.

Cook the onions and carrots in butter and oil on medium to low for around 3 minutes (until the onion starts to go translucent) in the same pan that the meat was in to get all those tasty fats. Add garlic and some tomato paste and cook for another minute. Drain the beans and add them, the chicken stock, and the tomatoes. Then add the meat back in (include the juice) and also the bay leaf and thyme.

Cook in the oven at 170 for 2 hours - stirring every 20 to avoid the sauce burning. Add pepper to season throughout the cooking time. DO NOT add salt as the dish is naturally salty from the stock and bacon.

Enjoy with fresh bread and a glass of red wine.