Weekday cassoulet

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Ingredients

  • For the garlic breadcrumbs:

  • 2 tbsps extra-virgin olive oil
  • 1 clove garlic, minced
  • 3 slices slightly stale or dried bread, pulsed into crumbs in food processor
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper

  • For the casoulet:

  • 4 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs, cut in 1/2 through the bone
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 225g slab bacon, sliced into large lardons
  • 1 large onion, chopped
  • 3 celery stalks, chopped
  • 2 carrots, chopped
  • 4 cloves garlic, minced
  • 120ml white wine
  • 2 cups cooked Great Northern white beans
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 2 tsps dried thyme
  • 120ml chicken stock
  • 1 tomato, sliced very thinly
  • Garlic breadcrumbs
  • 1 baguette, sliced, for serving

Use imperial measurements

Method

How to make Weekday cassoulet

1) Make the garlic breadcrumbs. In a small saute pan over low heat, add the oil and the garlic. Stir until the oil is fragrant, about 1 minute. Toss in the breadcrumbs and cook until the crumbs start to turn golden, about 2-3 minutes. Season with salt and pepper, to taste, and remove from heat.

2) Preheat the oven to 180C/Gas 4. Rinse and dry the chicken well and season with salt and pepper. Let sit at room temperature for 15 minutes.

3) In a large Dutch oven, over medium-low heat, add the bacon and slowly render the fat. Remove the bacon to a plate when crispy, leaving the fat in the pan. Raise the heat to medium-high and add the chicken, skin side down. Brown the chicken on both sides and then remove to a plate. Add the onion, celery, carrots and garlic and saute until soft, about 5 minutes. Deglaze the pan with white wine and reduce by half. Stir in the beans, bay leaf and thyme. Nestle the chicken thighs and bacon into the pot. Add the chicken stock, cover and bake in the oven for 20 minutes. Remove from the oven, remove the lid and top the cassoulet with sliced tomatoes and the garlic breadcrumbs. Return to the oven and bake, uncovered, 15 minutes longer.

Serve the cassoulet with baguette slices.

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