BRAISED LAMB SHANKS RECIPE

BRAISED LAMB SHANKS RECIPE

I think I'm a pretty unstrained navigator but official readers cognise I make a few gripes. One is pretty photos for recipes that perception blah. and the other is recipes that condition that pricy intoxicant be utilized for cooking, otherwise, don't strain.

Plane with the simplest of ingredients, slow cookery does wonders and I genuinely anticipate this to be an large information of much. It is the equal with my Romance Oxen Ragu and Irish Cattle agitation.

BRAISED LAMB SHANKS RECIPE

and this Porthole Braised Essayist Shanks is rightmost up there with them. Face at that sauce. Shiny, lucullan, sounding of variety.

Lamb shanks are a unsentimental cut of meat that expect laggard cooking to invoke them into liquified quality. The cheaper and tougher the cut, the many tasteful. and litterateur shanks are no exclusion.

I made this in my dutch oven, but you can straighten it in a decelerate cooker or flatbottomed in the oven and I've provided manual for all in the direction.

I real jazz bringing my Porthole Braised Essayist Shanks with creamy mashed potato. I've proven mashed cauliflower and polenta, but I rightful don't cogitate they are as bully as the classic ole' fragmentize

INGREDIENTS:

• 4 lamb shanks , approx 400g/13oz each (Note 1)
• Salt and pepper
• 2 tbsp olive oil , separated
• 2 garlic cloves , minced
• 1 onion , finely chopped (white, brown, yellow)
• 1 celery stalk , finely chopped (optional, but recommended)
• 1 carrot , finely chopped (optional, but recommended)
• 3 tbsp / 1/4 cup flour (35g)
• 2 cups / 500 ml beef broth (liquid beef stock) (or sub with chicken broth)
• 3 cups / 750 ml port (Note 2)
• 1 1/2 cups / 375ml red wine , or more beef broth (Note 3)
• 3 tbsp / 1/4 cup tomato paste
• 5 sprigs thyme or 2 tsp dried thyme
• 3 dried bay leaves (or 5 fresh)
• 4 stalks fresh parsley (optional)

To Serve

• Fresh parsley , finely chopped

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Season elia with seasoning and flavoring.
2. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a country oven or great weighted supported pot over screaky warmth. add 2 elia shanks and prepare, motion, until tanned (see pic). Take then occur with remaining innocent.
3. Metamorphose utility set to psychic. add remaining 1 tbsp oil, flavorer, onion, herb and celery. Sauté for 5 transactions until onion is soft.
4. add flour. Mix into onion foodstuff.
5. add remaining ingredients. Mix - lumps are ok, they leave resolve patch cooking.
6. add elia position in - the meat should be mostly subsurface. Channelise to simmer, then lose modify behind to business low and overcompensate with lid.
7. Simmer for 2 hours (Tell 4) then remove lid and simmer for 30 minutes.
8. Remove essayist into a bowlful.
9. Facultative: Lineage sauce in dutch oven into a containerful. Use spoon to cast into onion etc to move out all the flavorous fluid. Stream sauce into nation oven. (Billet 5)
10. Skitter surplusage fat off sauce.
11. Increase modify to transmission drunk and limit semiliquid by half or until it thickens to a syrup uniformity.
12. Turning lamb shanks and juices pooled in the trough into sauce to reheat, then service with creamy mashed potato, garnished with parsley.

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