Cassoulet

The Cassoulet is a typical French dish. Its history would go up with the 100 year old War, in the XIVth century and it would have been born at the time of the seat of the town of Castelnauday by the English. To give forces before the battle, the inhabitants of the capital of Lauragais would have prepared gigantic "ragout" made up of all their reserves of beans and meats of all kinds (geese, pigs...). This meal worthy of Pantagruel would have made it possible to the French to gain the victory.

The Cassoulet of Castelnaudary is composed of beans-ingots, sausage of Toulouse, a piece of goose or crystallized duck in its grease, a piece of pig, pork rinds and of duck or goose grease. It draws its name from the "cassolo", a hollow dish out of ground which, with the wire of time, changed to give its name to the cassoulet. Delicious heated, it became the traditional dish of south-west before gaining the tables of whole France.