Tuesday 24 January 2012

Cassoulet with duck

I am going to show you how to make a cassoulet for those cold nights.

you will need
1 to 2 duck leg
191g goose fat
30g sea salt
24g fresh thyme
30g fresh rosmary
28g garlic
333g pork belly
333g haricot beans
166g toulouse sausage
333g diced lamb
50g carrots
66g onions
33g tomato puree
333ml white wine
15g chicken stock cube
83g streaky bacon

  • pick the leafs off the rosemary and thyme and chop them fine combine with the sea salt and then rub on to the duck and leave overnight.
  •  soak the haricot bean in water overnight.
  • preheat the oven to 130 melted the goose fat you can rinse the salt mix off the duck but I like to keep it on place the duck on a oven proof dish ,pour over the most of the goose fat keep a bit to fry with later on place in over for about 2 hours or until the meat can be pushed off the bone put the pork belly on a oven proof dish in the oven for the same time.
  • place the sausage in a pan of water and cook for 30 mins, take out of the water drain the beans and add to the water you cooked  the sausage in. cook for about 1 hour or till soft at the same time cut your onion, carrots and bacon 1cm dice or slice if it's better for you to, do fry off the lamb in the goose fat and add the onion, carrot and bacon till golden, add a hand full of flour mix in then add you tomato puree mix then your wine and about 250ml of hot water use your kettle give it a mix and simmer till meat is tender.

  • now cut your sausage and pork belly in to 1cm slice and take off the fat  from the duck and pick the meat from the bones.
  • when your lamb is tender drain your beans and add to the lamb now get a deep cassoulet dish or a pie dish place a layer of the bean mix for a base, then the sugsage , more bean mix, then the pork belly, more bean mix, then the duck then the last of the mix you can put some bread crumbs on if you want now in the oven at 160 for about 25min.

I know this is a long winded dish but it is well worth it as it's good wholesom
food and is good if you have a lot of friends around. The amount is for 6-8 portions.
Remember you can change some of the ingredients as nothing is set in
stone.

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