Lamb shanks- recipe anyone?

salski

Mmmm sounds delish! Might have to try this. does it not need a trivet? Someone once mentioned silver foil balls underneath? And does this work with legs and thighs?
Thanks again!
Sal

Fruball

salski wrote: »

Mmmm sounds delish! Might have to try this. does it not need a trivet? Someone once mentioned silver foil balls underneath? And does this work with legs and thighs?
Thanks again!
Sal

No you don't need a trivet but I always add some water (about an inch) in the bottom as my SC says not to use without liquid.

Yes it works for legs and thighs... anything really!

salski

Thank you ery much. I have some thighs in the freezer and was wondering what to do with them!
Thank you!!!!! x

herewegoagain2010

Today's the day...lamb shank and veg in the SC! Will let you know how we get on.

Thanks for the ideas about the other meats. I've got a lovely chicken sat in the freezer, but never had the confidence to stick it in the SC. I'm fed up with seeing my electricity meter go into overdrive my my electric cooker is on. It always makes me feel so guilty about the amount of electric that I end up making roast tats, rice pud and a victoria sponge. I'm tyring to lose weight and all the extra calories aren't good!

zippychick

the lamb shanks thread should have some ideas - ill merge this later

herewegoagain2010

Wow - it was amazing! The minty gravy coating cooked down into a lovely sauce and the meat fell off the bone. I thought it might be a bit greasy or fatty, but it was lovely.

2 defrosted lamb minty cheat shanks
4 chunky cut carrots
4 spuds into qrtrs
1 large onion
1 cup of water

Thrown in the SC for 7hours and it was perfect. Thanks for the other ideas, I've now got the confidence to try anything in the SC. Will be checking out the SC thread. Thanks

[Deleted User]

Hi I want to cook some Lamb Shanks in my SC tomorrow and wondered if anyone has a decent recipe for the gloopy gravy thats normally seved at restaraunts with this ,also my friend isn't keen on mashed potatos and I'm not sure if I could serve this on a bed of rice insted any ideas for something different for Lamb Shanks

Sublime_2

I don't like gloopy gravy with mine. Prefer to put some red wine in, and perhaps a little cornflour. The only thing I can think of is to add more cornflour?

lurkey*is*here

do you mean the minted lamb shanks you get?
they are out of a packet and are microwaved a local butcher sold them for a few weeks once:(

usually I just bung some lamb stock cubes with water cornflour mint sauce and red currant jelly in then just add more cornflour until its as thick as I want it

Penelope_Penguin

JackieO wrote: »

Hi I want to cook some Lamb Shanks in my SC tomorrow and wondered if anyone has a decent recipe for the gloopy gravy thats normally seved at restaraunts with this ,also my friend isn't keen on mashed potatos and I'm not sure if I could serve this on a bed of rice insted any ideas for something different for Lamb Shanks

They'd be lovely done in a moroccan way with rice Apricots, almonds, cinnamon will be good.

More suggestions in this thread; I'll merge this later.