Confit of Duck Breast and Sausage Cassoulet

Name: Confit of Duck Breast and Sausage Cassoulet
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 dried bay leaf; 454 grams dried Great Northern beans; 4 or 5 boned duck breast halves (2 to 2 1/2 lb. total); 710 milliliters fat-skimmed chicken broth; 1 Tbsp chopped fresh thyme leaves or 1 teaspoon dried thyme; 227 grams pound garlic sausages, sliced 1/2 inch thick; 5 cloves garlic, peeled and minced or pressed; 2 onions (about 1 lb. total), peeled and chopped; 1 teaspoons pepper; 2 Tbsps About salt; 2 Tbsps sugar; 113 grams thick-sliced bacon, chopped; 1 sprig Thyme , rinsed; 227 grams firm-ripe tomato (about , rinsed, cored, and chopped; 177 milliliters dry red wine such as Beaujolais Nouveau or Zinfandel

Confit of Duck Breast and Sausage Cassoulet might be just the main course you are searching for. One serving contains 486 calories, 40g of protein, and 12g of fat. This recipe covers 39% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 8. 1 person found this recipe to be flavorful and satisfying. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free and dairy free diet. If you have firm-ripe tomato, sugar, onions, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the pepper you could follow this main course with the Easy Peppermint Dessert as a dessert.

Instructions

Sort beans and discard debris. Rinse beans, drain, and put into a 5- to 6-quart pan with 4 quarts water. Bring to a boil over high heat, cover, reduce heat, and simmer for 1 hour.

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Beans

Water

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Frying Pan

Drain beans, discarding liquid; if making up to 1 day ahead, cover and chill. Put beans in a 4 1/2-quart or larger electric slow-cooker.

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Beans

Meanwhile, pull and cut skin from duck breasts; reserve skin for cracklings (cover and chill up to 1 day).

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Duck Breast

Place breasts in a bowl.

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Bowl

Add 2 tablespoons salt and the sugar, and mix; cover and chill at least 30 minutes but no longer than 1 hour. Rinse breasts well under cool running water; if making up to 1 day ahead, cover and chill.

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Sugar

Water

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Cut meat into 1/2-inch chunks.

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Meat

In a 10- to 12-inch frying pan over medium-high heat, frequently stir bacon until browned and crisp, about 5 minutes. Discard all but 1 tablespoon bacon drippings.

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Bacon

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Add onions and garlic to bacon; stir often until onions begin to brown, 8 to 10 minutes.

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Garlic

Onion

Bacon

Add broth and wine; bring to a boil over high heat, scraping up browned bits from pan bottom.

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Broth

Wine

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Frying Pan

Pour onion-broth mixture into slow-cooker with beans.

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Beans

Broth

Onion

Add tomato, chopped thyme, pepper, and bay leaf; mix.

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Pepper

Tomato

Thyme

Place duck pieces on the beans.

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Beans

Whole Duck

Cover and cook until beans and duck are very tender to bite, 5 to 6 hours on low, 4 to 5 hours on high. If there is more liquid than desired, uncover slow-cooker, turn heat to high, and simmer to concentrate the mixture, up to 30 minutes.

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Beans

Whole Duck

Stir sausage slices into cassoulet and cook until hot, 5 to 10 minutes. Ladle cassoulet into bowls, sprinkle equally with duck cracklings, and garnish with thyme sprigs.

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Fresh Thyme

Sausage

Whole Duck

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Duck cracklings. Chop reserved duck skin (see preceding) into 1/4-inch pieces. In a 10- to 12-inch frying pan over medium-high heat, frequently stir skin until crisp and golden, 5 to 8 minutes. With a slotted spoon, transfer to towels to drain.

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Whole Duck

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