Braised Lamb Shanks with Mushrooms
These elegant braised lamb shanks look fancy but are easy to make. Marinated in red wine and braised in Coke and beef stock, the flavor in these lamb shanks will have you begging for more.
Ingredients
- 2 lamb shanks
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Flour for dusting
- 2 tbsp Extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tsp butter
- meat spice your favorite
- 2 medium onions finely chopped
- 2 medium carrots cut 5-10mm thick
- 400 g Mushrooms cut in half
- Red wine
- 2 tomatoes peeled and chopped
- 1 tsp tomato paste
- 400 ml beef stock
- 1 cup Coca-Cola
Instructions
- Let lamb shanks marinade in red wine for at least 1 hour, remove from wine and dust with flour. Meanwhile, preheat your oven to 350°F (180°C).
- Place an oven proof casserole on the stove over medium heat and add in the extra virgin olive oil.
- Add lamb shanks, salt and pepper to taste. Fry shanks until all sides are brown, roughly 5 min, and remove from casserole and set aside.
- Add butter and onions to casserole and fry onions until translucent. Add meat spice. Return shanks to the casserole and fry for about 5 min.
- Add the Coke and cook for about 7 min. Add carrots, chopped tomatoes, tomato paste and beef stock and cook for 10 min on medium heat.
- Set oven to 180 degrees. Remove casserole from stove and place in oven. After about 30 min, add the mushrooms, and place the casserole back in the oven for another 45 min.
- If you find that your sauce is not thick enough, mix in a few teaspoons of flour and return casserole to oven until the desired thickness has been reached.
- Enjoy!
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Notes
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