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Slow Cooked Lamb Shanks with Red Wine Sauce
A classic way to prepare shanks, these are slow cooked in a deeply flavoured red wine sauce until they are meltingly tender. You can't taste the red wine at the end, it completely transforms into a rich sauce.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 4 lamb shanks
- 1 teaspoon EACH salt and pepper
- 3 cloves garlic (minced)
- 2 tablespoon tomato paste
- 2 tablespoon olive oil(separated)
- 4 cups ml chicken stock low sodium or water
- 1 onion(finely diced brown
- 1 carrot
- 1 celery (finely diced)
- 750 ml red wine(full bodied good value wine)
- 5 sprigs of thyme (preferably tied together)
- 2 dried bay leaves (or fresh)
TO SERVE
- Mashed potato
- polenta or pureed cauliflower
- Fresh thyme leaves (optional garnish)
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Directions
Preheat the oven to 350F/180C.Pat the lamb shanks dry and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
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Heat 2 tbsp of olive oil in a heavy based pot over high heat. Sear the lamb shanks in 2 batches until brown all over, about 5 minutes.Remove lamb onto a plate and drain excess fat (if any) from the pot.
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Turn the heat down to medium low. Heat remaining 1 tbsp of olive oil in the same pot, if needed. Add the onion and garlic, cook for 2 minutes.
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Add carrot and celery. Cook for 5 minutes until onion is translucent and sweet.
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Add the red wine, chicken stock, crushed tomato, tomato paste, thyme and bay leaves. Stir to combine.
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Place the lamb shanks into the pot, squeezing them in to fit so they are mostly submerged. Turn stove up, bring to a simmer. Cover, then transfer to the oven for 2 hours
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Remove from oven, remove lid, then return to the oven for another 30 minutes (so 2 1/2 hours in total). Check to ensure lamb meat is ultra tender (use 2 forks) - if not, cover and keep cooking. Ideal is tender meat but still just holding onto bone.
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Remove lamb onto plate and keep warm. Pick out and discard bay leaves and thyme.
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Strain the sauce into a bowl, pressing to extract all sauce out of the veggies (for repurposing the veggies). Pour strained sauce back into pot. Bring to simmer over medium heat and reduce slightly to a syrupy consistency. Taste then add salt and pepper to taste.
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Serve the lamb shanks on mashed potato or cauliflower puree with plenty of sauce! Garnish with thyme leaves if desired.
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