Gratin of Veal Shanks with Spiced Tomato Sauce and Pasta

Here’s my updated recipe for pastitsatha, a particularly popular dish on the Ionian Island of Corfu, where the food is spicy rather than herbal as in most of Greece. It’s nearly impossible to pass by a kitchen door in Corfu without catching the aroma of sweet paprika cooking in oil, but you’d be hard-pressed to find paprika used elsewhere in Greece.

Pastitsatha is truly an outstanding meal-in-onepot dish. Chunks of farm-raised chicken or rosy veal shanks are cooked slo