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Cassoulet Toulousain
Guillaume Fabre
Chef-owner, La Table du Canal, Toulouse, FR
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Cassoulet Toulousain

2 days total180 min hands-onServes 8Hard

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Three days, one clay pot, and a crust that gets broken back into the beans seven times.

WHAT YOU GET

  • The chef's hidden note — the technique no cookbook prints
  • Every component built from scratch, each with its own spec
  • Films on choosing and judging the produce before you buy it
  • Gross and net gram weights for every ingredient, per portion
  • Time and temperature at each stage, as run in the restaurant
  • A photo at every step that can go wrong
  • Substitutions for anything hard to find where you live
  • What usually goes wrong, and what to do about it

Yours for good once bought. Updates from the chef included.

BEFORE YOU BUY

Equipment
Glazed clay cassole, Large pot, Sieve, Oven
Allergens
Sulphites
Method
40 steps · 30 photographed · 10 filmed
Components
3 made from scratch
Films
3, 18 min

3 RECIPES INSIDE THIS RECIPE

Each with its own weights, steps and timings

The sauce, the cure, the dough, the dressing — a restaurant makes these itself, and so will you. Every one below is a full sub-recipe: its own ingredient list, its own method, its own yield and shelf life. Nothing says «use shop-bought».

Confit de canard

Film

Duck legs salted overnight, rinsed and cooked submerged in duck fat at low temperature.

Shop confit is often just cooked duck in fat and tastes of nothing; the overnight salt is what seasons the meat through.

  • Duck legs000 g
  • Coarse salt000 g
Steps
7
Time
15 h
Hands-on
35 min

Makes 4 legs · keeps 1 month under fat

Up to 1 month ahead; start two days before at minimum

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Bean cooking liquid

Film

Tarbais beans cooked with pork rind, hock and aromatics until barely tender, keeping all the liquid.

The liquid is the sauce. Drain it away and the cassoulet is dry by the second hour in the oven.

  • Tarbais beans000 g
  • Pork rind000 g
Steps
8
Time
4 h
Hands-on
40 min

Makes 2 kg beans plus 1.5 L liquid

The day before assembly

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The crust

Film

The assembled pot baked slowly, its surface broken and pushed under each time it sets.

Each broken crust thickens the liquid a little more. It is how the cassoulet goes from soup to something you can spoon.

  • Assembled cassoulet000 g
Steps
5
Time
4 h
Hands-on
20 min

Makes Serves 8

No — this is the final bake

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INGREDIENTS

A taste of the list · the rest locked

A few ingredients to show you what the dish is built on. Every one on the full list carries a gross and a net weight per portion, and a note on what you can swap it for where you live.

  • Tarbais beans000 g
  • Duck legs000 g
  • Toulouse sausage000 g
  • Pork rind000 g
  • Pork shoulder000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 18 min

Most of what goes wrong is decided at the counter, before you cook anything. These are filmed by the chef: what to buy, how to tell it is good, and how to set your own kitchen up for it.

CHOOSING6:00

Tarbais beans, and what happens with the wrong bean

TECHNIQUE7:00

Breaking the crust: seven times, filmed

KIT5:00

The cassole, and what to use if you have not got one

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 40 STEPS

30 photographed · 10 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 30 of the 40 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 10 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: judging how much liquid to keep at each stage — step 24 of 40.

  1. 01

    Read the whole method before you start, then weigh everything out. Every timing below assumes the next ingredient is already within reach.

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  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. + 34 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

3 things Guillaume Fabre watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.

  1. 01

    Never adding breadcrumbs

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Layering meat below beans, not on top

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Topping up with hot bean liquid, never water

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

The bean soaking and first cooking times, and how many times the crust goes back in before it stops forming.

Written by Guillaume Fabre. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

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NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

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