Cassoulet by Tre' - 2022 self cooking challenge

Here's the first entry from my previous thread. You can read the intro here.

The majority of the items were bought in a kit from D'Artagnan. Recipe and everything included here.


Cassoulet feels like one of those dishes that sounds like it should be intimidating but it wasn't at all.

Soak the beans overnight



Mise en place (not sure how to rotate this)



Veg and beans in the pot



Simmer



brown the duck sausage, break down the garlic sausage and duck legs.



Veg and beans in the pot



Simmer



Discard the bouquet garni and onion (note: cut the onion across the equator and not pole to pole to make this easier) Drain beans and veg. Add duck fat to the bottom of the pot you will finish the cassoulet in. Layer half the beans, then the meats then the remaining beans. Don't do what I did and let the remaining meat on top. All of this goes in the oven at 325 along with the veal demi glace and tomato paste. I used tomato juice instead as it was all I had laying around.



Cook for 3 hours, crack the top if it starts to look dry and add more liquid (stock, water, or tomato juice). Bump up the oven to 400 and add a little more liquid for another half hour or so.



Serve immediately!




Forgive the messy pictures. I don't normally track what I'm doing in the kitchen so trying to replicate something similar to what BigDropper has done.

Using this as a scale:

1 - full meat freezer left unplugged outside in the summer

to

5 - Last meal before the electric chair worthy.


And this one to rate difficulty:

1 - My 3 year old did this blindfolded

to

5 - Performing Rocket Surgery on the back of a pick up in Pamplona going the opposite direction of the bulls.


Difficulty - 3/5 - Gumbo is more difficult, but not much.
Taste 4/5 - this is amazing. a tad salty but that was expected.