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Carol’s Flageolet Bean Cassoulet

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Flageolet Bean Cassoulet Chili Smith Recipe

Day 1: cook 1/2 lb beans in 3 cups Homemade broth* with meaty ham hock and thyme. (Flageolet or Baby Lima)

Remove meat from ham hock and mix back into the beans and broth and store in fridge for up to 1 week. 

Day 2:  Make in Large Dutch Oven

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 lb bacon, cut up
  • 1 Kielbasa, cut into 1/2″ coins
  • 1 Large red onion, diced
  • 3-4 carrots, coined
  • 3-4 stalks celery, diced
  • 2 cloves garlic mashed
  • 2 tbsp Salt
  • 1/2 cup white wine
  • 1 can fire roasted tomatoes
  • 1/2 lb shredded, smoked duck, chicken, or turkey
  • Day 1’s beans, ham and broth

    More broth as needed

Directions: 

-Sauté bacon until crispy, remove, leave grease in pan. (This is not a light meal!  Hahaha)

-In bacon grease: brown Kielbasa pieces, remove.

-Sautee onions, remove 

-Remove remaining bacon grease from pot

-Sauté carrots and celery (add back bacon grease as needed)

-Add garlic and salt, Sauté 2 minutes 

-Deglaze with white wine

-Stir in Tomatoes, reduce 

-Add back bacon, Kielbasa and onions

-Stir in smoked poultry, beans and ham

-Add more broth as needed 

-Bring to a simmer

-Place in oven at 350 for 1 hour. 

Helpful tips: 

Serve warm with toasted buttered Mini Ciabatta

HOMEMADE BROTH

*Home made broth is a key ingredient in this recipe. 

In a large roasting pan, place chicken bones and skin, beef bones, pork bones, ham bones, celery and carrot tops and bases, onion ends and skins, mushroom stems. (I save and freeze everything every day when I’m cooking, then make broth when my freezer gets full)

Roast for 90 minutes at 350, stirring once after about an hour with top off

Move pan to stove top, and add as much water as your pan will safely hold. 

Put the top on the pan and simmer for 2-3 hours. Let it cool down for a while, then remove the bones, and squeeze liquid from the veggies. Strain broth into a large metal pot. Allow to cool a bit more, and remove fat floating on the top. 

I like to store in 3 cup containers in the freezer. Always available for soup, stew, or cooking rice. 

Sweet Potato Healthy Veggie Style Chili

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Sweet Potato Healthy Veggie Style Chili

Ingredients:

  • 1 pound of Heirloom Beans cooked weight (About 6-8 oz dried beans)
  • Olive Oil
  • 1 –Bottle Dark Ale or Beer
  • 1 – Sweet Onion
  • 1 – Red Onion 2 – Bell Peppers
  • 1 – Green Zucchini
  • 1 – Crook Neck Zucchini
  • 1 – Sweet Potato
  • Garlic
  • Anything else you like… all chopped into bite-sized pieces.

Method:

Beans: In a pot

  1. Rinse and soak in clear water for 12 hours or so until rehydrated.
  2. Change water and cover to one inch above beans in clear, cool water and simmer for about an hour until tender.
  3. Add Salt and ½ onions to water prior to cooking.

Base: In a large skillet

  1. Heat Olive Oil.
  2. Sauté Onions and Garlic.
  3. Add other vegetables.
  4. Add moisture of Beer – cover and steam for three to five minutes.
  5. Add Chili Seasoning to taste.
  6. Add beans to the base.
  7. Enjoy!

Tip:

Hosting friends and family? We’ve got you covered!
 
Best served while fresh and not overcooked.
 
Chili Smith’s Healthy Veggie Style Chili—a quick, easy, and absolutely delicious recipe that’s perfect for your holiday gatherings. Packed with vibrant veggies, hearty Chili Smith heirloom beans, and flavorful seasonings, this dish is a total crowd-pleaser.

Dutch Oven Chil Cowboy Beans by Chili Smith

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Preparation:

  1. 14 oz package of Chili Smith Heritage Beans – we like Jacob’s Cattle Gold or maybe Tiger Eye. 
    – Rinse the beans and then soak them for eight to twelve hours in lots of water.
    – Drain the soak water, add a little salt and fresh water to a level just above the beans and bring to boil. Reduce to simmer for 40 minutes or an hour until tender to the touch.
  2. One pound of Bacon Ends and Pieces diced fine.
    – Sautee in a heavy bottom pan – we like cast iron.
  3. One large Onion – Margaret found natural green onions – we use yellow, red, or sweet
    – Dice in ¼ inch pieces and add to bacon until clear.
  4. 3-4 Garlic Cloves or one tablespoon of diced garlic
    – Add to batch and continue sautéing
  5. Add drained beans to mix – some cooks save the cooked beans water for other uses.
    – Fold all together and add sauce.

Sauce:

  1. One – 18 oz bottle of BBQ Sauce – we used KC Masterpiece KC Flavor – I like Stubbs Original brand as well.
  2. 1 or 1 ½ cups catsup
  3. 1 cup honey
  4. ¼ cup Dark Molasses
  5. Kosher or Himalayan Salt, Cracked Pepper, Garlic and Onion Powder to taste

If you like spicy – add some chili powder or crushed jalapeño peppers – I like to add that later for individual taste.

Stir the sauce into the beans and bacon mix and keep at simmer temp or just below for several hours with a lid on.

This can go in an oven at 200 degrees or over coals and covered with soil in a Dutch oven.

Can be served right away and/or refrigerated for great flavor blending.

This can freeze for use later.

You will find a dark, very fragrant, sweet and sour BBQ flavor that is incredible as a side dish with Burgers, Hot Dogs or all by itself for Fourth of July Parties and summer outings.

This will produce about one-half gallon of beans. For larger gatherings simply use a 28 oz package of beans and double the balance of ingredients.

Cowboy Up!

Wade and Margaret were from pioneering families in northern California and like many of the ranchers – then and now – they took their cattle from the valley to the higher elevations of the Sierra Mountain Range during the summer. There is less heat and still, plenty of nutritious green grass and cool, clean snowmelt water in the mountains east of Jonesville long after the grasses of winter and spring had dried in the valley.

Their summer home was an old mountain cabin in a beautiful meadow right on the path the stagecoach had taken years before. The barn and cottage had served as the changing station for horses pulling the stages and livery wagons up the Sierra. This was not an overnight destination in the old days of California – that was the Jonesville Hotel – this was a place to break while the hands changed horses for the next pull on the way towards Reno.

We always looked forward to visiting them because of the history and stories that were shared. Margaret was superb at fly fishing and Fresh Mountain Rainbow Trout were a steady part of their diet as was venison from the deer in the area. They had no indoor plumbing, electricity, propane or anything other than what was used in the days of the stagecoach station.

It was a very cool place to visit, and Wade and Margaret didn’t get many visitors on this all-but-forgotten dirt road. Their days consisted of doing all the chores necessary to live in a remote location and when not tending to cattle and other livestock, there was a small garden patch where fresh vegetables grew when the deer didn’t eat them! Shopping in a town was not even a weekly occurrence so when friends would come with the mail, we always knew to throw in some special items from town!

These were competent, self-sufficient and self-reliant people. There was nothing they could not do and they were great teachers and fun to be around.

After spending the day on horseback or moving some bales of feed from the barn for horses, milking to make butter (and that wonderful, rich, unpasteurized liquid that becomes milk), gathering and splitting wood for the stove and fire, gathering berries that grew naturally (“keep an eye out for the bears” Margaret would warn as we left with our pails…) or picking tiny little apples off trees planted by the original stagecoach workers and then making incredible jams and fresh pies made for big appetites! Oh, what appetites!

One of the staples always on hand was dried beans. Margaret made soups, chili, salads and seemingly everything with beans – and were they ever delicious! There was an outdoor cooking area on warm days and a place to gather around a nice fire on cool evenings and an antique wood-burning stove and oven in the cabin kitchen. What beautiful breads, pies, cobblers, and cakes came out of that thing! Always, always, there was a big cast iron Dutch oven keeping things hot or cooking something wonderful and often that was a simple dish that included beans. That heavy cast iron pot and a metal coffee pot seemed to be ready all the time.

Many times, those ovens were filled with “left-over’s” from other meals and – as cast iron will – took on a unique flavoring, and always good! Frontier cooks just learned to spice, blend and mix to create healthy, filling and deliciously long lasting meals! And the aroma?! Oh, my!

Well, this recipe is based on my memory of those days. It is simple, flavorful, and nutritious and gets better with age! It reminds me of that sweet couple and glorious times of old. Enjoy!

Pressure Cooker Bean Cooking Times at a Glance

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InstaPot
Beans (1 Cup Dry) Approximate Minutes Under High Pressure
Bean Soaked 4-8 hours Unsoaked Yield in Cups
Aduki 5—9 4—20 2
Anasazi 4—7 20—22 2 1/4
Black (turtle) 9—11 20—25 2
Black-eyed (cow) peas — 9—11 2 1/4
Cannellini 9—12 22—25 2
Chick-peas (garbanzos) 10—12 30—40 2 1/2
Christmas lima 8—10 16—18 1 1/4
Cranberry 9—12 30—35 2 1/4
Fava* 12—18 22—28 2
Flageolets 10—14 17—22 2
Great Northern 8—12 25—30 2 1/4
Lentils — 7—10 2
Lima (large) 4-7 12—16 2
Lima (baby) 5—7 12—15 2 1/2
Peas (split, green) — 8—10 2
Peas (whote, green) — 16—18 2
Pigeon Peas (grandules) 6—9 20—25 3
Pinto 4—6 22—25 2 1/4
Navy (pea) 6—8 16—25 2
Red Kidney 10—12 20—25 2
Scarlet Runner 12—14 17—20 1 1/4
Soybeans (beige) 9—12 28—35 2 1/4
Soybeans (black) 20—22 35—40 2 1/2

Vegetarian Cassoulet Melissa R.at Epicurious

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  1. For cassoulet
    1. 3 medium leeks (white and pale green parts only)
    2. 4 medium carrots, halved lengthwise and cut into 1-inch-wide pieces
    3. 3 celery ribs, cut into 1-inch-wide pieces
    4. 4 garlic cloves, chopped
    5. 1/4 cup olive oil
    6. 4 thyme sprigs
    7. 2 parsley sprigs
    8. 1 Turkish or 1/2 California bay leaf
    9. 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
    10. 1 pound pre-cooked Chili Smith Cannellini beans, Hutterite Soup, Green Flageolet, or Tarbais Of Lodi
    11. 1-quart water
  2. For garlic crumbs:
    1. 4 cups coarse fresh bread crumbs from a baguette
    2. 1/3 cup olive oil
    3. 1 tablespoon chopped garlic
    4. 1/4 cup chopped parsley

Preparation:

  1. Make Cassoulet:
    1. Halve leeks lengthwise and cut crosswise into 1/2-inch pieces, then wash well and pat dry.
    2. Cook leeks, carrots, celery, and garlic in oil with herb sprigs, bay leaf, cloves, and 1/2 teaspoon each of salt and pepper in a large heavy pot over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until softened and golden, about 15 minutes. Stir in beans, then water, and simmer, partially covered, stirring occasionally, until carrots are tender but not falling apart, about 30 minutes.
  2. Make garlic crumbs while cassoulet simmers:
    1. Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle
    2. Toss breadcrumbs with oil, garlic, and 1/4 teaspoon each of salt and pepper in a bowl until well coated. Spread in a baking pan and toast in oven, stirring once halfway through, until crisp and golden, 12 to 15 minutes.
    3. Toss breadcrumbs with oil, garlic, and 1/4 teaspoon each of salt and pepper in a bowl until well coated. Spread in a baking pan and toast in oven, stirring once halfway through, until crisp and golden, 12 to 15 minutes.
  3. Finish cassoulet:
    1. 1. Discard herb sprigs and bay leaf. Mash some of the beans in a pot with a potato masher or back of a spoon to thicken the broth. Season with salt and pepper. Just before serving, sprinkle with garlic crumbs.

Yield Makes 4 to 6 servings Active Time 30 min Total Time 1 1/4 hr.

Per serving: 516 calories, 23g fat (3g saturated), 0mg cholesterol, 370mg sodium, 64g carbohydrates, 12g fiber, 16g protein

Cassoulet Chili Smith Family Foods

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Beans:

  • 2 Tsp. Butter
  • ½ cup onions, chopped
  • 1 cup celery, chopped
  • 2 lb. of our Chili Smith Hutterite, Tarbais Of Lodi, or Green Flagolet beans)
  • ½ tsp. Salt
  • ¼ tsp. Cayenne pepper
  • 16 cups water
  • 2 bay leaf

Meats:

  • ½ cup flour
  • ½ cup oil
  • 2 cup onions, chopped
  • 1 cup celery, chopped
  • 1 cup bell peppers, chopped
  • 1 cup carrots, chopped
  • 1 tsp. Salt
  • ¼ tsp. Cayenne pepper
  • 16 each duck confit, duck legs
  • 2 lb. Andouille sausage links cut into 16 equal portions
  • 4 cups chicken broth
  • 2 lb. Roasted duck, cut into 2-inch pieces

Gratine:

  • 1 ½ cups dried fine breadcrumbs
  • 1 cup grated parmesan6 Tsp. Parsley, chopped
  • 4 tsp. Essence, recipe follows
  • 4 Tsp. Olive oil

Garnish:

  • Chives, chopped
  • Crusty Bread

Beans:

  • 2 Tsp. Butter
  • ½ cup onions, chopped
  • 1 cup celery, chopped
  • 2 lb. of our Chili Smith Hutterite, Tarbais Of Lodi, or Green Flagolet beans)
  • ½ tsp. Salt
  • ¼ tsp. Cayenne pepper
  • 16 cups water
  • 2 bay leaf

Meats:

  • ½ cup flour
  • ½ cup oil
  • 2 cup onions, chopped
  • 1 cup celery, chopped
  • 1 cup bell peppers, chopped
  • 1 cup carrots, chopped
  • 1 tsp. Salt
  • ¼ tsp. Cayenne pepper
  • 16 each duck confit, duck legs
  • 2 lb. Andouille sausage links cut into 16 equal portions
  • 4 cups chicken broth
  • 2 lb. Roasted duck, cut into 2-inch pieces

Gratine:

  • 1 ½ cups dried fine breadcrumbs
  • 1 cup grated parmesan6 Tsp. Parsley, chopped
  • 4 tsp. Essence, recipe follows
  • 4 Tsp. Olive oil

Garnish:

  • Chives, chopped
  • Crusty Bread

Essence:

Yield 2/3 cup

  • 5 Tsp. Paprika
  • 4 Tsp. salt
  • 4 Tsp. Garlic powder
  • 2 Tsp. Black pepper
  • 2 Tsp. Onion powder
  • 2 Tsp. Cayenne pepper
  • 2 Tsp. Dried leaf oregano
  • 2 Tsp. Dried thyme

Method of Cooking:

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees For the beans: In a large saucepan, melt the butter. Sauté the onions and celery for 4 minutes, or until they are slightly wilted. Add the beans, salt, cayenne, water, and bay leaf and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and cook until beans are tender and most of the water is absorbed about 2 hours.

For the meats: In a large ovenproof skillet, over medium-high heat, combine the flour and oil. Stirring constantly, make a medium brown roux. Add the onions, celery, bell peppers, carrots, salt, and cayenne. Stirring constantly, cook for 4 minutes or until vegetables are slightly wilted. Add the duck legs and sausages and cook for 3 minutes on each side. Add the chicken broth and stir the mixture until the roux and broth are combined and mixture thickens. Scrape the bottom and sides of the pot to loosen any brown particles. Bring to a boil. Add the beans and duck meat. Reduce the heat to medium-low and cook for 30-40 minutes.

For the Gratine: In a mixing bowl, combine breadcrumbs, cheese, parsley, Essence, and olive oil. Mix well. When the bean meat mixture is cooked, spoon the Gratine evenly over the top and bake for 10 minutes or until lightly browned. Spoon a serving of the mixture from the pan onto a plate and garnish with Essence, chopped chives, and crusty bread.

What about the gas???!

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We love this question and actually have an answer for greatly reducing the musical toot gas!

What causes the gas and flocculants is the sugars that seep from the beans during soaking and cooking. The sugars that are now in the cooking water mix with the enzymes in our lower intestines as our bodies try to break down the sugars and Yippee!  We have successfully made our bodies into little refineries!

Here is what we do to help with this:

  1. Rinse the dry beans several times with cool, clean water.
  2. Soak the beans for several hours until fully expanded.
  1. Stir these beans
  2. Drain the water off
  3. Cover the beans again with cool, clean water, we add salt and onion, bring to boil
  4. Reduce and allow simmering for forty minutes or an hour a until softened.
  5. Turn off the heat and allow beans to rest in the water for ten or fifteen minutes.
  6. Drain the water off and cool the beans with cool, clean water to stop the cooling process.
  7. After thoroughly cool, drain off water and beans are ready to use.

Some thinking is that we are draining off the flavor and nutrients, to say nothing of the amount of fresh water this all requires. This is a good and valid point. We use good quality bases or stock to our soups and chili products, which creates a wonderful flavor without excessive gas.

We are told that continual and regular consumption of beans will allow our bodies to adjust and better handle the sugars as but this also a different dietary concern as in our slim and trim society. Have you ever noticed how happy and healthy natives to Mexico and other high bean consumption areas are? 

We do know about over the counter products claiming to reduce gas  examples are Beano and others. Maybe some of you can help us with other ideas to keep the musical fruit under control.

Steve’s Ham Bone Healthy Soup by Chili Smith

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Note – This soup can be made with any Chili Smith Heirloom bean, and with or without meat.

Meat and Beans:

  • 1 pound Chili Smith Christmas Lima heirloom beans – presoak 8 – 12 hours in clear water – no salt or seasoning.Rinse and place in heavy bottom pot or pressure cooker with ham bone, ham shanks, ham hocks (or lamb!)
  • 1 quart water – make sure beans are covered
  • 1 Bay Leaf
  • 1 tablespoon Chili Smith Soup Seasoning – Garlic, Lemon Pepper, Oregano, Cumin, Dry Mustard, Salt and Paprika
  • Bring to boil or to 10 pounds pressure and reduce heat to simmering. Cook until tender – approximately 2 hours traditional or 15 – 20 minutes pressure While that is cooking…

Soup and Veggies:

  • Large heavy bottom pot – heat
  • 1 – 2 tablespoons Olive Oil – we like chipotle infused
  • 1 cup each diced sweet and red onion
  • 1 diced shallot

    Lift onions and mix with oil – cook until translucent

  • 1 each – Turnip, Yam and Sweet Potato– peeled and diced in 1” cubes or smaller
  • 2 cups – Summer Squash – I like the already prepared from Mann or Raley’s
  • Lift from bottom of pot to coat with onion/oil mix – WHEN all oil is absorbed…
  • 1 cup Organic Vegetable Broth – OR – beer – we like whatever is local…
  • Stir well and cover and allow steaming for five minutes…
  • 2 tablespoons Chili Smith Soup Seasoning – stirred into 1 cup additional broth – add to veggies and allow to come back to boiling
  • Cook at simmer until veggies are getting softer – NOT – fully cooked…
  • 1 medium (303 size) diced tomatoes in sauce – add entire can and sauce to pot and stir
  • Allow to return to simmer, stir well, cover and shut off until beans and meat are ready…

Blend:

  • Add meat and beans to soup pot – aren’t you glad you got a BIG one now? – and turn gently from bottom.
  • Bring back to simmer and allow to gently cook for 15 minutes or more until everything is ready!
  • Add a little moisture – water or broth – if needed
  • DO NOT overcook!

WAIT!:

It is ready to eat and will be delicious now, but will be even better after is has chilled and rested in the refrigerator overnight.

Toppings:

Sour cream, Corn or Tortilla Chips, Diced Green Onions or jalapeños, Sharp Cheddar Cheese – shredded and excellent with fresh Cornbread…

Leftovers:

Freezes very well or can be refrigerated for several days for ‘grab and heat’ quickie meals.

Black-And-White Summer Bean Salad Chili Smith – Adopted from Weight Watchers

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Ingredients:

  • 1 cup white beans – fully cooked They suggest canned, we think ours are more flavorful and nutritious Use Hutterite, White Eye, Rice Bean, Runner Cannellini.
  • 1 cup black beans Black Valentine, Sunset Runner, maybe Hidatsa Red. Think about color and texture along with flavor. Black Calypso, Good Mother Stallard, CHRISTMAS LIMA, and several other Chili Smith heirloom beans will make this formula tasty and beautiful! We did this one with Hidatsa Red, Rice bean and Black Valentine for an almost Red, White and Blue celebration!
  • 1 large tomato, diced – preferably fresh from your garden, or a good neighbor!
  • 1 small onion, diced
  • 1 medium celery rib, diced
  • 2 Tbsp white or red wine vinegar
  • 3 Tbsp minced fresh Italian parsley or basil
  • Salt and Pepper – to taste

Method:

  1. Cook, drain and chill beans
  2. In a large bowl, combine beans, tomato, onion and celery. Gently stir in vinegar and sprinkle with parsley or basil; season to taste with salt and pepper.
Serves 4 – Yields 1 cup salad per serving

Chili Smith Christmas Lima Beans with Honey Baked Ham by Carol Radkins

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Ingredients:

  • 1 pound Chili Smith Christmas Lima Beans
  • About 1.3 of a Honey Baked Ham, including bone
  • 2 cups of water from ham
  • 2 tbs olive oil and 2 tbs butter
  • 1 large diced onion
  • 3 carrots, cut about 1″
  • 3 cups of chicken broth
  • 5 Baby Bok Choy

Directions:

  1. Soak 1 pound Chili Smith Christmas Lima Beans in fresh water overnight, following package instructions.
  2. Meanwhile, in a separate pot, take about 1/3 of a Honey Baked Ham, including the bone, and simmer for 2 hours, in a large covered pot. Cut excess meat from the bone and set aside. Keep 2 cups of water from ham.
  3. In another large stock pot, sauté with 2 tbs olive oil and 2 tbs butter, 1diced large onion, 3 carrots, cut about 1″ – Until golden brown.
  4. In the large stock pot, add the plumped beans, the cut up ham (including the bone), the 2 cups of ham water, and 2 cups of chicken broth to the sautéed veg. Simmer covered, for another 45 minutes, until beans are tender.
  5. Clean and chop 5 baby Bok Choy, and add to the pot. Simmer for 15 minutes covered, then turn the heat off and let sit for 20 minutes. Salt to taste.

Enjoy!