Lamb Shanks


Slow cooked lamb shanks in a tomato base sauce.  The lamb is very tender and falls off the bone.

Ingredients
2 tbsp olive oil
4 lamb shanks
2 onions, roughly chopped
3 carrots, roughly chopped
2 bay leaves
2 garlic cloves, chopped
2 tbsp tomato purée
1 glass white wine
1 ½ cups of chicken stock
Salt and pepper to taste
1 tbsp butter
2 tbsp plain flour
Handful of chopped flat parsley

Method
Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C. Heat the oil in a frying pan. Brown the lamb all over. Remove the lamb to a casserole dish. Add the onion and carrot to the frying pan and cook for 10 mins until the onions start to soften and brown. Add the bay leaves and garlic and cook for a few mins more. Stir in the tomato purée wine and stock. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Add the sauce mixture to the casserole dish.  Cover with a lid or tightly with foil and cook in the oven for 2 hrs or more until the lamb is tender.

Remove the lamb from the sauce and place on a rack. In a frying pan melt the butter and add the flour, stirring continuously with a wooden spoon until the mixture starts to brown.  Add the sauce to the frying pan and simmer for about 15 mins until rich and glossy.  Add the parsley. 

Before serving add the lamb back into the sauce and heat through.

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