Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, braised lamb shanks. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Braised lamb shanks is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Braised lamb shanks is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
Coat a large Dutch oven generously with olive oil and bring to a high heat. Season the shanks generously with salt and add them to the pan. Place the onions in a layer in the bottom of a Dutch oven or medium roasting pan with a lid. Arrange the lamb shanks on top of the onions.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have braised lamb shanks using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Braised lamb shanks:
- Take 4 Lamb Shanks
- Prepare 1 salt and pepper
- Prepare 1 tbsp Vegetable Oil
- Prepare 1 Onion, sliced
- Make ready 4 clove Garlic, sliced
- Prepare 1 tsp Tomato paste
- Make ready 1 tsp Chipotle chili powder
- Make ready 1 tsp Ancho chile powder
- Take 1/4 tsp Ground Cinnamon
- Make ready 3 Jalepeno peppers, seeded and sliced
- Get 1 Red bell pepper, seeded and sliced
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup Chicken broth
- Take 1/4 cup Cilantro, chopped
Lamb shanks are slowly simmered with fresh rosemary, garlic, tomatoes, and red wine. Great served with polenta, or my family's favorite–roasted garlic mashed potatoes–as you need something to soak up the wonderful sauce. A fantastic dish for company, as all the prep work is done at the beginning, and then you just have to wait. Braised lamb shanks are the perfect hearty meal for cooler days.
Steps to make Braised lamb shanks:
- Preheat oven to 325. Generously season lamb shanks with salt and pepper.
- Heat vegetable oil in a large dutch oven over medium high heat. Place lamb shanks in the dutch oven, cook, turning, until browned on all sides, about 10 minutes. Transfer shanks to a plate. Drain off remaining oil and fat so only 1 tablespoon remains in the dutch oven.
- Stir onion, garlic and a pinch of salt into the dutch oven; decrease heat to medium low and cook, stirring, until onions are softened and translucent, about 5 minutes. Add tomato paste, chipotle chili powder, ancho chili powder, and ground cinnamon; stir to combine.
- Pour 1 cup chicken broth over onion mixture. Increase heat to high; when liquid boils, place lamb shanks in dutch oven. Cover and cook in the preheated oven for 90 minutes.
- Remove dutch oven and stir in jalepeno pepper, red bell pepper and 1/2 cup chicken broth; bring to a boil on the stovetop. Return pan to the oven and cook, uncovered, until lamb shanks are fork tender, about 20 minutes. Transfer lamb to plate.
- Place dutch oven on the stovetop over high heat; bring liquid to a boil and cook, skimming off any foam, until liquid is reduced and thickened, about 5 minutes. Stir in cilantro; season with salt and pepper to taste. Spoon sauce over lamb shanks to serve.
A fantastic dish for company, as all the prep work is done at the beginning, and then you just have to wait. Braised lamb shanks are the perfect hearty meal for cooler days. The shank is the the part of the animal between the hoof and the knee, right below the leg of lamb cut. Because they get a lot of exercise (almost all lamb is raised grass fed on the range), the shanks can be rather tough. We're smoking then roasting lamb shanks, adding in incredible wood-fired flavor into this classic recipe.
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