Quick-time sausage cassoulet
This dish was inspired by a builder called Dusty, who kept talking about a sausage casserole. So I made this one up very quickly, basing it on a French cassoulet-type thing. It's nice and easy to cook for a group as it's all done in one dish. While I was going sausage-mad, I realized that we're fantastically lucky these days to have great sausages available in the supermarkets, farmers' markets and good local butchers. In this dish feel free to use any sausages you like.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 17 of 19 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 17 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Sausage | 100g cooked | 301 |
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp (14g) | 119 |
| Red Onion | 1 medium (110g) | 44 |
| Bacon | 1 slice cooked (8g) | 43 |
| Plum | 1 medium (66g) | 30 |
| Carrot | 1 medium (61g) | 25 |
| Wine | 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) | 25 |
| Tomato | 1 medium (123g) | 22 |
| Mushroom | 1/2 cup sliced (35g) | 15 |
| Celery | 1 stalk (40g) | 6 |
| Black Pepper | 1 tsp ground (2.3g) | 6 |
| Rosemary | 1 tsp dried (1.2g) | 4 |
| Thyme | 1 tsp dried (1.4g) | 4 |
| Garlic | 1 clove (3g) | 4 |
| Sage | 1 tsp ground (0.7g) | 2 |
| Bay Leaf | 1 leaf (0.6g) | 2 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Porcini | not in our table | 0 |
| Cannellini Bean | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 2 handfuls dried porcini mushrooms, broken up
- 8 thick slices dry-cured higher-welfare streaky bacon
- extra virgin olive oil
- 1 large bunch mixed fresh rosemary, thyme and sage
- 2 red onions, peeled and roughly chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 large carrot, peeled and roughly chopped
- ½ heart celery, finely chopped
- 2 bay leaves
- ½ bottle red wine
- 3 x 400 g tinned plum tomatoes
- 2 x 400 g tinned borlotti or cannellini beans or use a mixture
- sea salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- 24 higher-welfare chipolata sausages, or use 16 larger sausages
- 1 large stale loaf, crusts removed
- 1 small handful fresh thyme, leaves picked