{"id":352,"date":"2019-01-19T01:05:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T01:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christiniacrippes.com\/food\/?p=352"},"modified":"2019-01-19T01:05:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T01:05:24","slug":"cassoulet-casserole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christiniacrippes.com\/food\/2019\/01\/19\/cassoulet-casserole\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassoulet casserole!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week\u2019s recipe is another that has been on my list for years. I almost made it during my casserole year<\/a>, but ended up *shrug emoji<\/a>.*<\/p>\n

This year, however, after reading that cassoulet is the ultimate<\/a> Dutch oven dish, I figured I had to try it, and try it early this year.<\/p>\n

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Cassoulet ingredients.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another hold up in my mission was, well, the ingredients in cassoulet. Not only are many of them hard to find, and therefore, not all that cheap, those ingredients are also extremely fatty meats that are not all that appetizing.<\/p>\n

To make up for this fact, I mercifully found a vegetarian cassoulet. Only that seemed pretty boring.<\/p>\n

So, I did what anybody — well, one other notable foodie<\/a> at least — would do, I reverse engineered the vegetarian cassoulet to add the amounts and types of meats I wanted. I settled on pancetta and andouille sausage.<\/p>\n

For the vegetarians, these can easily be skipped and my assumption that it would be boring was wrong. For the meat eaters, feel free to add duck fat, duck legs, salt pork, pork shoulder, chicken thighs, or any of the variety of meats that appear in the multitude of recipes for this French classic.<\/p>\n

I did what tasted best to me, and dear reader, it was amazing.<\/p>\n

I won\u2019t lie, it\u2019s time consuming, and the recipe can be tweaked in hundreds of ways to suit one\u2019s tastes, but I can definitely see why cassoulet has the reputation it does, especially in a Dutch oven.<\/p>\n

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This cassoulet only gets better with the addition of garlicky bread crumbs (not pictured).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here\u2019s what I did, adapting the Epicurious<\/a> vegetarian recipe:<\/p>\n

Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the cassoulet<\/em><\/p>\n