This delicious recipe, adapted for kosher cooking from Williams-Sonoma lets you cook your lamb shanks overnight, without heating up your kitchen. Serve with egg noodles, mashed potatoes or polenta to soak up the flavorful sauce.
Serves 4
- 1 yellow onion, diced
- 2 celery stalks, diced
- 2 carrots, peeled and diced
- 3 garlic cloves, crushed
- 2 cups chicken stock
- 1 cup peeled, seeded and chopped tomatoes
- 2 Tbs. tomato paste
- 1 tsp. chopped fresh thyme
- 1 bay leaf
- 4 lamb shanks, external fat trimmed
- Salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste
- 2 Tbs. olive oil
- 1 cup red wine
- Put the onion, celery, carrots, garlic, stock, tomatoes, tomato paste, thyme and bay leaf in a slow cooker and stir to combine.
- Season the lamb shanks with salt and pepper. In a large sauté pan over medium-high heat, warm the olive oil until nearly smoking. Add the shanks and brown on all sides, about 5 minutes total. Transfer to the slow cooker.
- Remove the sauté pan from the heat, pour in the wine and return to medium-high heat. Bring to a simmer, stirring to scrape up any browned bits from the pan bottom. Add the wine to the slow cooker, cover and cook on high for 6 hours according to the manufacturers instructions. Transfer the lamb shanks to a large serving dish.
- Remove the bay leaf from the cooking liquid. Using a blender or stick blender, puree the liquids and solids until smooth. Pour some of the sauce over the shanks and pass the rest alongside.
