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Dinner · 45 min · Amounts not specified

White beans baked with sausage

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Beans and sausage in tomato, garlic, thyme. Duck confit would be nice; this is Tuesday. Breadcrumbs on top if you want a crust.

The sheet · 6 bowls · 45 min

easy

Why tonight. Beans and sausage in tomato, garlic, thyme. Duck confit would be nice; this is Tuesday. Breadcrumbs on top if you want a crust.

What it needs

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  • white beans
  • sausage
  • tomato
  • garlic
  • thyme

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: bread.

Method

  1. Brown the sausage first and build everything in one dish. Beans with plenty of their own liquid.
  2. Into a low oven uncovered for two hours. Uncovered is what forms the crust.
  3. Break the crust and push it under three or four times during the cook, letting a new one form each time.
  4. That repeated breaking is the whole technique and what separates it from beans and sausage in a pot.

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Published minimum internal temperaturesGround beef, pork, lamb and veal: 71°C, 160°F.Ground beef, pork, lamb and veal71°C / 160°F40°C50°C60°C70°C80°C

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What the ingredients are actually doing

white beans
Creamy enough to thicken what they are in — mash a ladleful against the side of the pot and the whole dish gains body.
sausage
Seasoned fat and meat that arrives pre-flavored, so it does double duty as protein and as the base a dish is built on.
tomato
Sweet, sour and savory at once, which is why it holds up so many dishes with no meat in them.
garlic
Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
thyme
The most patient herb here — it survives long cooking, which almost nothing green does.

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