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    By: Melissa

    Vegetarian Cassoulet

    This vegetarian cassoulet, or white bean cassoulet is roasted for 4 hours with porcini mushrooms, red wine, tomatoes, broth, carrots, white beans and celery and it is amazing. This vegetable cassoulet is a twist on the traditional cassoulet but the taste is just as delicious.

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    Total Time: 3 hours hours 15 minutes minutes

    About this Vegetarian Cassoulet Recipe

    When I came up with this Vegetarian Cassoulet, I wanted to lighten up the traditional Cassoulet, a French dish, which has all of these same ingredients but it has lots of meat added to the dish.   

    With this vegetable cassoulet version, the porcini mushrooms make a nice substitute for the meaty flavor and the dried beans that are cooked in the oven taste so amazing. I especially love when the beans have soaked up all of the broth and red wine. 

    And let's talk about that broth in this vegetable cassoulet! I love serving warm French bread to sop up the juices.

    Who would love this veggie cassoulet

    This vegetarian cassoulet makes a great meal for people who are vegetarian or vegan. If you are serving dinner to someone who is vegetarian or vegan, this veggie and white bean cassoulet is the perfect dish!

    Make sure you have some really good french bread to dip in your bowl to not let any of that broth go to waste!  The dipping is the best part part of the meal for me. I like to make a jazzed up version of store bought boule bread.

    Choosing ingredients for this vegetarian cassoulet

    When buying ingredients for this vegetable cassoulet, make sure you use the best quality ones you can find. Sine this is an all vegetable dish, quality ingredients will really help boost all that delicious flavor.

    This veggie and white bean cassoulet is a wonderful addition to your your Fall and Winter meal plans. It is cozy, not heavy and full of great flavor and goodness.

    Once you give this vegetable cassoulet a try, I am certain you will have a new favorite vegetarian dish you will love!  

    Let me know in the comments how you liked it!

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    5 from 5 votes

    Vegetarian Cassoulet

    A delicious and easy vegetarian roast
    Prep Time15 minutes mins
    Cook Time3 hours hrs
    Total Time3 hours hrs 15 minutes mins
    Servings: 4

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    Author: Melissa

    Ingredients

    • 1 pound dried Cannellini Beans or Great Northern beans
    • ½ onion diced
    • 4 cloves garlic smashed and diced
    • 1 bay leaf
    • 2 sprigs of fresh thyme
    • ½ stems of fresh rosemary
    • 5 cups of vegetable broth and 5 cups water
    • 2 ribs celery diced
    • 2 carrots diced
    • ¼ cup of red wine
    • 1 cup of hydrated porcini mushrooms chopped into bite size pieces
    • salt and pepper to taste
    • 1 teaspoon olive oil
    • 1 14 oz can of diced tomatoes
    • good quality french baguette or similar bread
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    Instructions

    • Pre-heat your oven to 325 degrees.
    • In a large, heavy Dutch oven (with tight fitting lid) add olive oil over medium heat and stir in celery, carrots, and onion. Season with salt.
    • Cook and stir vegetables in the olive oil about 10 minutes until they are softened.
    • While this is cooking, put your porcini mushrooms (they come dried) in a bowl of boiling water and let them sit for 10 minutes to soak up the water.
    • Once your veggies are nice and softened, go ahead and add your red wine and cook out the alcohol, about 5 minutes. Once the alcohol is cooked off, add your canned tomatoes, your dried beans, all your broth and then enough water to cover the beans by about 3 inches and mix it all together.
    • Add a good pinch of salt and your fresh herbs to the pot and mix that in.
    • Bring your pot of beans up to a boil.
    • Once it is boiling, stir well and cover with a tight fitting lid and place in the oven.
    • The beans will slow cook in the oven for a while.
    • I like to check my beans every hour while they are cooking to make sure the liquid is not getting to low before the beans are done cooking.
    • If your beans are not soft and ready and the pot is looking dry just go ahead and add enough water to your pot to come to the level of the beans.
    • Keep doing this each time you check your beans until your beans are cooked all the way through and soft, about 3-4 hours (depending on the dryness of your beans).
    • When it is ready, make sure to serve it with bread and enjoy!

    Nutrition

    Calories: 404kcal | Carbohydrates: 72g | Protein: 27g | Fat: 2g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 41mg | Potassium: 2150mg | Fiber: 18g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 5106IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 289mg | Iron: 12mg

    Nutrition Values are estimates only.

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    Course :Main Course

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    1. Jen says

      September 21, 2021 at 3:59 pm

      5 stars
      This was really delicious and I loved that it was meatless!

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