Slow-Cooked Red Wine Lamb Shanks

Name: Slow-Cooked Red Wine Lamb Shanks
Yield: Serves Four
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: salt and pepper; oil, for cooking; 400 ml (14 fl oz) tin of beef consommé or stock; 1 onion, sliced; 4 small lamb shanks; 1 large carrot, roughly chopped; 2 cloves of garlic, chopped; 2 bay leaves; 1 tablespoon soft brown sugar; 1-2 teaspoons cornflour (optional); 1 sprig of rosemary; 1 bottle of full-bodied red wine

Preparation info

Serves
Four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Keeping it Simple

By Gary Rhodes

Published 2005

About

This lamb dish goes really well with the orange curd carrots.

Ingredients

4 small lamb shanks
salt and pepper
oil, for cooking
1 onion, sliced

Europe
United Kingdom
Dinner
England
Gluten-free

Method

Preheat the oven to 160°C/325°F/gas 3. Season the lamb shanks with salt and pepper. Heat a large braising pot with a little oil and fry the shanks until coloured all over, then remove from the pan and keep to one side.
Put the onion, carrot, garlic, bay lea