Traditional Cassoulet with Duck Confit, Toulouse Sausage and Pork Belly

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This traditional recipe is inspired by the 1929's cookbook “Le Festin occitan” written by chef Prosper Montagné. It is still made the traditional way in Castelnaudary the town of cassoulet's origin.
There is no simple, easy or quick way to make cassoulet, This authentic dish needs labor, patience and a procedure of low and slow cooking and baking, that's what distinguishes cassoulet from any other bean stew

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The cassoulet (from Occitan “caçolet”) is a regional specialty of Languedoc, made from dried beans, generally white, and meat. Originally it was made from fèves.
The cassoulet, still called “estouffet” in the seventeenth century, takes (in the eighteenth century) the name cassoulet, from the dish in which it cooked, the "cassole", a clay casserole used since the ancient times to cook all sorts of stews and ragouts.
The quarrel over the region and town of origin of the cassoulet appeared at the end of the 19th century when a magazine “La Revue Méridionale” published an article in 1890 claiming that the only authentic cassoulet comes from Castelnaudary.
You can find many variations of cassoulet recipes, the most renowned are those from Castelnaudary, Carcassonne and Toulouse.

One of the oldest cookbooks in France, the 14th century: "le Viandier" written by Taillevant, (his real name was Guillaume Tirel, a cook for several kings for over 60 years), gives some indications to the cassoulet origins.
Taillevant describes recipes of pies and stews, including the ragout of mutton and pork with beans.
The historians think that Taillevant could have been inspired by an Arabic book written by Mohamed de Bagdad in 1226, which reveals an extremely refined kitchen.

Ingredients: 5 persons
5 duck legs
5 sausages (Toulouse style)
1 kg pork belly
400 grams salted bacon
Pork bard (pork rind traditionally)
(To cover the oven plate)
1 kg duck fat for cooking
1 kg white beans
(Lingots Lauragais or Tarbais in France)
(Cannellini or great northern beans as alternative)
2 garlic bulbs
1 onion
2 carrots
2 celery stalks
1 leak
4 poultry stock cubes
(Chicken and pork bones traditionally)
1 bunch of thyme
8 bay leaves
4 cloves
1 nutmeg
1 tbsp black peppercorns
2 tbsp crushed black peppercorns
Course sea salt

Convection oven: 170° Celsius for 3 ½ hours
Classic oven: 180° Celsius for 3 ½ hours

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