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Haricot de Mouton

A brown ragout of lamb or mutton, lardons and small onions over a lightly toasted roux, finished in the oven with half-cooked white beans that drink up the sauce and turn creamy.

  • Yield6 servings
  • Hands-on1 h
  • Total11 h 5 min
  • Difficulty

Ingredients

Beans

  • 250 gdried white beans (lingot, tarbais or cannellini)
  • 1small onion, halved
  • 1 leafbay leaf

Ragout

  • 1.2 kgmutton or lamb breast, neck and shoulder, cut into 5 cm pieces
  • 150 glean salt pork or slab bacon, cut into lardons
  • 180 gpearl onions, peeled
  • 20 glard
  • 2 clovesgarlic, crushed
  • 25 gplain flour
  • 600 mlwater
  • 5 gsalt
  • 1 pinchfreshly ground black pepper
  • 1 bunchbouquet garni (parsley stems, thyme, bay), tied

Contains

  • Gluten
  • Celery
  • Legumes (any)
  • Common beans (kidney, black, pinto, navy...)
  • Wheat
  • Onion family (any)
  • Onion
  • Garlic
  • Leek
  • Thyme
  • Parsley
  • Bay leaf
  • Black and white pepper
  • All mammal meat (alpha-gal)
  • Pork
  • Lamb and mutton

Taste

  • Sweet
  • Salty
  • Umami / savory
  • Richness / fat
  • Smoke
  • Herbal / fresh

Texture

  • Creamy
  • Tender-braised

Equipment

  • Oven
  • Stovetop
  • Dutch oven

Season

  • Fall
  • Winter

Occasion

  • Weekend project
  • Meal prep

Effort

  • 45–90 min active
  • Over 3 hours total
  • Difficulty 2
  • Needs advance prep
  • Make-ahead friendly
  • Leftovers-friendly

Nutrition

  • Calories: high
  • Protein: high
  • Carbs: moderate
  • Fat: high
  • Fiber: high
  • Sodium: high

Budget

  • Budget: low

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