EASY BRAISED LAMB SHANKS RECIPE
Super tender, perfectly spiced braised lamb shanks and vegetables in a rich red wine sauce. Cooking lamb shanks is easier than you might think. Simply season, sear, and braise! It's the perfect lamb shank recipe for a small gathering! A dry red wine is your best bet for the red wine sauce. (Merlot is my favorite here, but a Cabernet Sauvignon would work well, too.) Serve rosemary lamb shanks with couscous, Lebanese rice, or pita to soak up all the delicious sauce. Start this rich, meaty dinner with a big bright salad like arugula salad or white bean salad.
Provided by Suzy Karadsheh
Categories Entree
Time 3h
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a small bowl, add all the spice mix ingredients and mix to combine.
- Pat the lamb shanks dry and season with the spice mix on all sides.
- In a large Dutch oven pot like this one, heat 2 tbsp olive oil over medium-high heat. Working in batches, brown the lamb shanks on all sides (about 8 mins or so). Transfer the lamb shanks to a large tray or bowl for now. Carefully dispose of extra fat in a separate heat-safe bowl, and return the pot to heat.
- Now add the onions, celery, carrots and potatoes. Saute for 5-7 minutes on medium-high, or until the vegetables gain some color. Add red wine, scrape the pot of brown bits. Cook briefly so that the wine reduces a bit.
- Add the broth, tomatoes, cinnamon sticks, thyme, and rosemary. Sprinkle a little salt and pepper. Return lamb shanks back to the pot; press down to submerge. Boil for 10 minutes. Turn heat off.
- Cover the pot and transfer to the 350 degrees F-heated oven. Cook in the oven for 2 1/2 hours (It's a good idea to check periodically through cooking just in case you need to add a little more liquid. When the shanks finish cooking, the liquid will have reduced to about 1/3 of what it was when you started.)
- While the lamb shanks are cooking, prepare rice according to this recipe, or prepare 2-3 cups of orzo pasta according to package instructions.
- Serve the lamb shanks hot with a little of the veggies and braising sauce on top of rice or orzo pasta. You might also like to prepare a side salad like this 3-ingredient Mediterranean salad or Fattoush. Enjoy!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 447.5 kcal, Sugar 6.6 g, Sodium 974.4 mg, Fat 11.3 g, SaturatedFat 3 g, Carbohydrate 27.8 g, Fiber 5.3 g, Protein 44.4 g, Cholesterol 127.3 mg, UnsaturatedFat 7.1 g, ServingSize 1 serving
LAMB SHANKS WITH ARTICHOKE HEARTS
Make and share this Lamb Shanks With Artichoke Hearts recipe from Food.com.
Provided by 2Bleu
Categories Lamb/Sheep
Time 3h30m
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 300°F.
- Rub shanks with 1 tbsp lemon juice and season. In a skillet, saute shanks in olive oil and sear, turning to brown all sides.
- Transfer shanks to a casserole dish and sprinkle with remaining lemon juice, garlic, and oregano. Add onion and bake covered, for 2 1/2 hours.
- Add beef broth, wine, and artichoke hearts. raise heat to 350°F and bake covered for 30 minutes more.
- Transfer lamb and chokes to a platter to keep warm. Mix cornstarch and water in a cup. On stovetop, Add cornstarch mixture to the casserole dish and cook with the lamb juice on med-high heat to thicken.
GREEK LAMB SHANKS (SLOW COOKER)
Make and share this Greek Lamb Shanks (Slow Cooker) recipe from Food.com.
Provided by Wendys Kitchen
Categories Stew
Time 4h20m
Yield 4-6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Place lamb and flour in large plastic bag and shake to coat.
- Heat oil in pan and add lamb in batches and cook until browned.
- Heat remaining oil and cook onions and garlic stirring until onions are soft.
- Combine wine, stock, rind artichokes and olives in a large jug.
- Place lamb in slow cooker pot and pour liquid mixture over lamb.
- Cover pot with lid.
- Cook on high setting for 4 hours or low setting for 8 hours.
- Stir in oregano and salt and pepper just prior to serving. Taste and adjust seasoning if required.
SLOW COOKER LAMB SHANKS
In this easy recipe, flavorful, tender, fall-off-the-bone lamb shanks are slowly cooked with broth and aromatics until wonderfully tender.
Provided by Vered DeLeeuw
Categories Main Course
Time 4h25m
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Add the broth to your slow cooker.
- Season the lamb shanks with salt, pepper, garlic powder, cumin, and rosemary. Place the shanks in your slow cooker.
- Cover and cook on HIGH for 4 hours or on LOW for 7 hours, until the lamb is very tender.
- When the lamb shanks finish cooking, set the slow cooker to WARM.
- Transfer the cooked lamb shanks to a plate. Strain the cooking liquids into a glass measuring cup, then return the lamb shanks to the slow cooker pan (carefully wipe it with warm moist paper towels if needed) and cover, to keep the meat warm while you thicken the gravy.
- Use a spoon to skim the fat layer off the top of the cooking juices. Pour them into a medium saucepan. Heat over medium-high heat until almost boiling but not quite, then turn the heat down to medium and simmer, whisking occasionally, until liquids are reduced into a rich gravy, 10-15 minutes.
- Transfer the lamb shanks to plates, spoon the gravy on top, and serve.
Nutrition Facts : ServingSize 1 lamb shank, Calories 377 kcal, Protein 57 g, Fat 15 g, SaturatedFat 7 g, Sodium 502 mg
ARTICHOKE AND LAMB SHANKS CROCK POT DINNER
This is a great dish to serve with rice, orzo pasta or polenta. It makes a good impression on guest and is easy to fix. To be really fancy sprinkle each serving with toasted pine nuts.
Provided by Grace Guderjahn
Categories Lamb/Sheep
Time 7h45m
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- In a 4 1/2 quart, or larger, electric crock pot, combine onion, bell pepper, celery, artichoke hearts,and olives.
- Rinse shanks and pat dry.
- Sprinkle all over with pepper.
- Place shanks in pot on top of vegetables.
- Add tomatoes with juice, add vinegar.
- Cover pot and cook until lamb is very tender.
- About 6-7 hours on low, less time on high.
- Remove shanks to a bowl and keep warm.
- Skim and discard fat from cooking liquid Turn crock pot to high.
- Mix cornstarch with 1 1/2 tablespoons water and pour into crock pot.
- Stir often until sauce bubbles (about 10 minutes).
- Spoon sauce and vegetables over lamb.
- Garnish with parsley.
CROCK POT LAMB SHANKS
Modified version of a recipe I found on the 'net that I thought turned out great. Apart from a few small changes to seasoning the original recipe called for a cup of wine rather than beer, sometimes I feel with tomato that makes things a bit rich when slow-cooked and I thought the beer substitution worked well. If you don't want to use beer try a cup of beef stock instead of the stock powder / beer. Also whole garlic cooked this way doesn't taste strong at all, if you want it to have a strong garlic taste you'd need to crush some of it.
Provided by Peter J
Categories Lamb/Sheep
Time 8h20m
Yield 2-4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Heat oil in pan over medium to high heat and brown lamb shanks on all sides.
- Season lamb shanks with pepper.
- Place sliced onions at bottom of crock pot and put lamb shanks on top drizzled with remaining oil and juices from the pan.
- Place mushrooms and garlic cloves over the top.
- Mix beer, Worcestershire sauce, stock powder, tomatoes, oregano, basil, thyme and bay leaf in a bowl.
- Pour mixture over the top of lamb shanks.
- Cook in crock pot on low for 6-8 hours depending on your crock pot.
- Remove bay leaves.
- Serve with vegetables and juices poured over the top of the shanks. I served over wholegrain bread but mashed potatoes would be the best match.
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