Recipe: Slow Cooker Lamb Shanks

The weather is winterish and I thought perfect time for Lamb Shanks.   So here is the recipe I use, have done for years.

When I stumbled across this recipe it was a 'stove top' recipe.  I have manipulated it to suit myself.  I love the slow cooker for meat recipes, to achieve that fall off the bone taste.

Ingredients:

6 lamb shanks

6 tbsp rosemary (I pull leaves from the stem)

2 chopped onions

Zest and juice from one orange

1/2 bottle of Red Wine

1 cup beef stock or 1 stock cube and 1 cup water

Salt and Pepper

Method:

Add all ingredients into slow cooker.

Cook on low in slow cooker for 6-8 hours (preferably 8).  

Turn shanks occasionally.

Additional: Before serving remove some of the juice and thicken on the stove top. I tend to add a little gravox but you could also use corn flour.

Serve with mash potato and green beans.

Note: You can brown the shanks and onions on the stove top prior to cooking in the slow cooker.  I cannot be bothered with this as I am a 'lazy cook'.  If I am going to cook in the slow cooker I pretty much want it to do it all with no additional mess. 

Hot Tip: Buy your lamb shank 'Frenched'  it means that the butcher (or supermarket) will have cut all the crap meat/fat away and leave you with a groomed piece of meat.  Often it looks like there is less to it, which I guess there is, but a frenched lamb shank is much nicer than a plain one.  Just saying.

Enjoy


Mandy