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Chicken and Sausage Casserole

A casserole with sautéed chicken and sausage with beans. French: Cassoulet
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Prep Time 40 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Servings: 4 people
Course: Dinner
Cuisine: French
Ingredients Equipment Method

Ingredients
  

  • 2 chicken breasts
  • 1 pound Italian sausage, mild
  • 2 slices of bread
  • 1 Tablespoon butter for bread
  • 1 cup celery, diced
  • 1/2 cup onion/ shallot diced
  • 1 cup carrot, diced
  • 1 cup diced bell pepper
  • 1 can of great northern beans, 15 ounce
  • 2 cloves of garlic, minced
  • 2 ounces dry white wine
  • 1/4 cup juices from boiling the sausage
  • 1 plumb tomato, diced
  • 1 1/2 tsp fresh rosemary, chopped
  • 2 tsp tomato paste
  • 3 Tablespoon olive oil
  • 2-3 ounces grated cheese

Equipment

  • 1 1- 1 1/2 quart pot with lid
  • 1 Set of measuring spoons
  • 1 set of measuring cups
  • 1 Cutting board
  • 1 casserole baking dish
  • 1 Kitchen knife
  • 2 Small Bowl
  • 1 frypan, 12 inch
  • 1 spatula for frypan

Method
 

  1. Boil sausage for 15 minutes, set aside to cool.
  2. Cut up sausage into rounds. Set aside.
  3. Dice up vegetables. Set aside.
  4. Dice up the tomatoes. Set aside.
  5. Cut up chicken. Set aside.
  6. In a 12 inch frypan, sauté chicken in olive oil until golden brown. Set aside.
  7. Deglaze frypan with, carrots, celery, bell pepper and shallots.
  8. Reintroduce the cooked chicken and sausage into frypan. Add wine, 1/2 cup of sausage juice from pot, rosemary, tomato paste, tomatoes, garlic and chicken bouillon. Mix well. Simmer for 5 minutes.
  9. Open can of great northern beans and reserve 1/4 of the can. Mash the remaining beans in a bowl.
  10. Add mashed beans to frypan and mix well.
  11. Butter two slices of bread.
  12. Add 1/2 the pieces of buttered bread to the bottom of the baking dish.
  13. Pour chicken, sausage, bean mixture on top of bread in baking dish.
  14. Add bread pieces to top of chicken sausage mixture.
  15. Add reserved beans and grated cheese to top of chicken and sausage mixture.
    16. For a double recipe, use a 13 x 9 inch baking dish. This is what I used for this example.