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French Cassoulet Clay Cooker

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8 servings

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Ingredients:

1 cup dried small white beans, rinsed (250 mL)
4 cups cold water (1 L)
2 lb. boneless lamb shoulder, fat trimmed, cut into 1 inch cubes (900 g)
1 lg. onion, chopped
1 md. carrot, pared, shredded
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 tsp. dried thyme leaves
1 can (8 oz.) tomato sauce (225 g)
1 bay leaf
1 lb. smoked ham hock
1 lb. Polish sausage or smoked sausage (450 g)
2 tbsp. butter or margarine (30 mL)
1 tbsp. salad oil
1-1/2 cups French bread crumbs, fresh

Directions:

Place beans in 4 cups water in deep bowl; let stand 8 hours or overnight. Or, heat beans and 4 cups water in 2 quart saucepan, to boiling, boil briskly 2 minutes. Remove from heat. Let stand covered 1 hour.

Soak top and bottom of 3 1/4 quart unglazed clay cooker in water about 15 to 20 minutes; drain.

Combine beans with liquid, lamb, onion, carrot, garlic and thyme in clay cooker. Stir in tomato sauce. Insert bay leaf and ham hock in center.

Place covered cooker in COLD oven. Set oven at 375 F. (190 C). Bake, stirring once or twice, until ham, lamb and beans are tender, about 3 hours.

Cut sausage into 1 1/2 inch pieces; pierce each piece with fork.

Heat butter and oil in frying pan; stir bread crumbs in oil mixture until well coated.

Remove ham hock from cooker. When cool enough to handle, discard bones and skin; cut meat into chunks. Return meat to cooker. Stir in sausage. Sprinkle evenly with bread crumbs.

Bake uncovered until sausage is hot and bread crumbs are crisp and brown, about 35 minutes.

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Comments from olga :

This classic French casserole mixes white beans, smoked ham, lamb and sausage. Neither too dry nor too solid with beans in this interpretation, it is handsomely crusted with crisp bread crumbs. It makes a good buffet dish with French bread and a green salad.

 
 
 

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