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knuckle of pork with beans, tomato

Serves 4

300 g bean Soissons

4 small baked ham hocks

3 large onions

3 cloves garlic

1.5 liters of chicken stock

1 sprig of thyme and a bay leaf

1 kilo of tomatoes Fresh

few basil leaves

Salt and pepper

Preparation:

Put beans soaked overnight, and once inflated the drain.

Meanwhile, peel the onions and garlic cloves, chop and saute with Soissons beans in a casserole, deglaze with white wine then add chicken broth, and reduce until almost dry, add fresh tomatoes or concentrated. Cook.

Meanwhile, roast the ham hocks 1 / 2 salt in the oven.

When developing, add some fresh basil leaves and arrange on plate.

The chef's advice:

Drain beans Soissons whatever the recipe and mix with tomato juice or cream, then whisk the butter. You get a more frothy sauce and creamy.

Philippe PONSINETAuberge Mill-BertrandMartigny Courpierre (Aisne)

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history and tradition

The bean is grown Soissons in the Aisne since the mid eighteenth century. Since 1824, its cultivation area extends from the village of Braine Billy up. It is known that at that time ¹, the coltora promiscua is practiced: "The winemakers combine the bean crop to the vine by placing clumps wherever the slightest gap arises in the vineyard ".

Thus, during the 20th century, the area of production moves first to the north, where the vine back to face competition from wines from the south, before expanding in Canton Craonne and more precisely in the valley of the fin.

In 2003, under the ¹ influence of some producers cultivating more Bean Soissons, the chamber ¹ agriculture of ¹ Aisne, the Brotherhood of the Bean Soissons, the town of Soissons and with the support of the Regional Council of Picardie, European funds and the general council of the Aisne, 38 new producers relaunched in culture. A great adventure begins.

Brotherhood Soissons Bean: It was born from the desire of a group of Soissons ¹ maintaining culinary traditions, and popular local language.

Mission: Defend, Expand and preserve the culinary traditions of Soissons and more generally of the Aisne ¹.

A Bean legend!
Rue Buer : (Origin of the legend of Soissons beans). During the Hundred Years War, when plague ravaged the country. The survivors Soissonais ¹ s enfuient, taking with them their crops. During flight, many lose graines.A of their return that they do not find it? A field covered with beans. ¹ The humidity of the canal banks of the crisis promotes an exceptional harvest allowed to feed the entire population without penalty.

This bean has since become famous so-called "Soissons".

The legend of the watchman of the cathedral.

At the end of the nineteenth century, a watchman named "The Peacock" never left the top of the tower of the cathedral, where he oversaw the city and fire. Tired of the aridity of its platform of stone, he decided to cheer him by sowing beans in boxes arranged Soissons along the guardrails.

Its plantations twining clung to the railing and crowned the tower of greenery ¹ amazing. "It's true Soissons" he said to his visitors, adding: "God created the flower and said, Be Pink! He created the beans and said, Be Sound and go in peace! "