Sausage and white bean casserole with herbed breadcrumbs - 9Kitchen

Ingredients

• 12 beef chipolatas (see note)
• 1 carrot coarsely chopped
• 1 onion coarsely chopped
• 1 baby fennel coarsely chopped
• 1 celery stalk coarsely chopped
• 2 cloves garlic
• 800g (2 cans) canned white beans, drained and rinsed
• 400g canned cherry tomatoes or canned chopped
• tomatoes
• 2 cups beef stock
• 1 bunch each thyme and rosemary, tied in a bundle
• with kitchen string
• 1¼ cups coarse fresh breadcrumbs (sourdough is best, but any day-old bread will do)
• ¼ cup coarsely chopped flat-leaf parsley