Lamb Shanks in a Tomato Basil Sauce

"A tasty lamb shank recipe which can be frozen if you like."
 
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Ready In:
2hrs
Ingredients:
11
Serves:
4-6
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ingredients

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directions

  • Heat the oil in a pan and cook the shanks in batches until browned; transfer to a baking dish.
  • Heat the butter in a pan and add the garlic and flour, cook stirring until the flour is lightly browned.
  • Remove from the heat and gradually stir in the stock, wine and tomato puree, simmer uncovered for about 20 minutes until the sauce is slightly thickened.
  • Pour the sauce over the shanks and bake covered in a moderately slow oven for 1-1/2 hours at 160dC 325D F.
  • Add the onion, basil and tomatoes and bake covered for about a further 20 minutes or until the mixture boils.

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  1. This was good Latchy, but lacked the depth of flavour your Lamb Shanks with Madeira and Olive Sauce recipe #71943 has. I browned the shanks, poured of most of the fat, then browned the garlic, and poured in the sauce stuff. I poured this over the shanks then oven cooked them for 1 1/2 hours, removed it to the stove top and reduced the liquid whilst I cut up all the stuff for step 6. This meant I had a reduced sauce rather than a flour thickened one. I still felt the sauce lacked "something". I was tempted to throw in olives and capers and rosemary to increase the gutsiness of it-I think it needed stronger flavoured herbs than just basil. But a simple recipe that came together very quickly, and resulted in very tender shanks. I actually made all the sauce for half the shanks, and froze the remainder. We'll eat it again with shanks, but with the additional ingredients I mentioned.
     
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