How to cook

How to cook cassoulet Cassoulet is a bean stew cooked in an earthenware pot. This is one of the classic dishes of Languedoc and France. The famous bean stew is the subject of much debate as to what a "real" cassoulet is. We will tell you later in the article about the history of this dish and how to prepare it. Origin story Cassoulet is truly a legend. As the story goes, its origins go back to the 14th century, during the Siege of Castelnaudary during the Hundred years' War. The besieged  megacity and its  hopeless dogfaces ordered the  occupants to collect what was left of their food reserves in order to make a dish rich in calories enough to give strength to repel the attacks of the  raiders.  In the end, the battle was lost, but Cassoulet went so far as to come an integral part of the  diurnal diet of the time. Its distribution went to the southwest, and it took root  far and wide, except for the Basque and Catalan regions.   It's believed...