cassoulet with local ingredients France

... accompany it. It is the king dish of Castelnaudary, stemming from local tradition. It gets its name from the vessel in which it simmers: the cassole. The Legend: The cassoulet was born during a siege in which the people of Chaur (inhabitants of Castelnaudary) were the martyrs in the Middle Ages. In the face of food shortages, they gathered and simmered all the last ingredients they had left, thus giving birth to the famous cassoulet of Castelnaudary.

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