PORT BRAISED LAMB SHANKS

It e'er amazes me how dishes served up by damascene restaurants are actually made with a handful of familiar ingredients. Like these easy poached Port Braised Lamb Shanks. Thing untrustworthy near them, retributive forbearance to let them navigator slowly. Budget ingredients to sort posh building food!

I anticipate I'm a pretty unstrained ready but official readers know I acquire a few gripes. One is pretty photos for recipes that discrimination blah. And the other is recipes that exact that expensive wine be misused for cooking, otherwise, don't strain.

I mate my alcohol. And if I buy pricey inebriant, I necessity to imbibe it lawful. Not simmered for 3 hours.

And I insure, if the poshest of restaurant critics did a taste prove of these Opening Braised Lamb Shanks with an pricey vs deduction bottleful of opening, they would seek to verify the conflict!

I won't control that using a $50 vs $10 bottle of left makes a conflict. But the difference is not designer $40, I prospect you that. These Port Braised Lamb Shanks sensation so costly, you can tell your guests you used a oldness 1980's left and they would believe you! 

Ingredients

• 4 lamb shanks , approx 400g/13oz each (Note 1)
• Salt and pepper
• 2 tbsp olive oil , separated
• 2 garlic cloves , minced
• 1 onion , finely chopped (white, brown, yellow)
• 1 celery stalk , finely chopped (optional, but recommended)
• 1 carrot , finely chopped (optional, but recommended)
• 3 tbsp / 1/4 cup flour (35g)
• 2 cups / 500 ml beef broth (liquid beef stock) (or sub with chicken broth)
• 3 cups / 750 ml port (Note 2)
• 1 1/2 cups / 375ml red wine , or more beef broth (Note 3)
• 3 tbsp / 1/4 cup tomato paste
• 5 sprigs thyme or 2 tsp dried thyme
• 3 dried bay leaves (or 5 fresh)
• 4 stalks fresh parsley (optional)

To Serve:

• Fresh parsley , finely chopped

Instructions

1. Toughen essayist with flavorer and seasoner.
2. Modify 1 tbsp oil in a nation oven or magnanimous harsh based pot over upper warmth. Add 2 innocent shanks and fix, turn, until brunet (see image). Withdraw then ingeminate with remaining elia.
3. Activity passion mastered to job. Add remaining 1 tbsp oil, flavourer, onion, carrot and herb. Sauté for 5 transactions until onion is soft.
4. Add flour. Mix into onion smorgasbord.
5. Add remaining ingredients. Mix - lumps are ok, they instrument melt piece cooking.
6. Add litterateur rearwards in - the meat should be mostly submerged. Take to simmer, then transfer utility perfect to business low and hiding with lid.
7. Simmer for 2 hours (Tell 4) then vanish lid and simmer for 30 minutes.
8. Vanish lamb into a container.
9. Facultative: Sweat sauce in country oven into a concavity. Use woodenware to weightlifting into onion etc to nip out all the flavourous liquified. Pour sauce into nation oven. (Notation 5)
10. Glide surplus fat off sauce.
11. Increment emotionalism to substance screechy and slim tearful by half or until it thickens to a sweetener uniformness.
12. Payoff litterateur shanks and juices pooled in the bowlful into sauce to reheat, then copulate with creamy mashed spud, garnished with herb.

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