Lamb shanks- recipe anyone?

Olliebeak

Maman - Sometimes Asda have the lamb shanks - 2 in a container for around £5 but sometimes £6 if they're a bit bigger. Maybe a local butcher would be cheaper - or perhaps have bigger shanks that would do more people. My aunt used to buy pork shanks and slow roast those for a mid-week meal.

The SmartPrice cornflour disappeared for a short time last year as well - but reappeared again a couple of months later. Keep your eyes peeled and grab it when you can.

Thanks for the heads-up on it going again, I'll stock up if there's still some left in mine .

davetaylor

Well, I have the above ingredients in my fridge as well as a slow cooker. I was hoping for some tips as to how I can throw it all together and make it taste rather lovely?

Dave

fletty

I would brown the shanks in a frying pan in a little oil then fry some chopped onion ( carrot, celery if you;ve got it), put it all in slow cooker with quarted mushrooms, red wine and little sesoning maybe a stock cube a tin of chopped tomatoes if you haven't any tomatoes top it up with water ( any tinned pulses would be nice or even better some barley ( you could part cook this before putting in slow cooker - I've never used a slow cooker so i'm not sure)).
nice with baby boiled pots, or lovely comforting mash pots and some nice greens (kayle, green cabbage)

maman

I don't use a slow cooker but I'm sure it would work just as well as casseroling in oven. My favourite lamb shank recipe is to brown them, then cook them slowly on top of a bed of diced carrots, parsnips and sliced leeks in stock/wine. You can add potatoes to make a one-pot meal then just serve with something green. You could add the mushrooms if you want to use up and I suppose the bacon too but that would be greedy! Keep them for something else, omelette?

thriftlady_2

I'd save the bacon for something else too. I'm not sure that bacon and lamb go together very well:think:

I'd do what the other posters have suggested and use the bacon for another meal -potato, bacon and onion hotpot for example.

Penelope_Penguin

I'll add this to the existing lamb shanks thread There are more recipes here - lamb shanks in the SC

Penny. x

parsonswife8

You can buy Value lamb shoulder shanks at Tesco for about £3.50 for 2.
They are smaller then the leg shanks but one will feed an adult with the added veg and some mash. I often buy them and they always cook well and end up nice and soft.
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ktee_uk

I use the same recipe/ingrediants for been shin as well. Just make sure the shin is in steak form or large chunks and cook the same as shanks.

Meat for slow cooking has been rising in price for quite some time so to buy enough for batch cooking is a little pricey. But it is more economical to try and cook as much as you can over the 2 or 3 hr period to make good use of the oven. Then freeze what you dont intend to eat and reheat when you want it. This is great for a mid-week meal as I dont normally get home till gone 6pm so its too late to contemplate cooking anything for hours on end so being able to quickly reheat a shank is a real treat.

carlamagee

hi.
im new to the OS board - went and bought myself a slow cooker on sunday -- £7 from Asda. monday went and got 2 lamb shanks then started looking for recipes, so today I have:

Browned lamb shanks in a little oil
sliced carrot, leek, onion and mushrooms
made lamb stock from stock cube, threw everything in the slow cooker.
Added 2 tablespoons of tomato puree, about 50g of barley, and a bouquet garni.....now ive left it on low.

does anyone have an idea hoow long it should take on low (ideally would like to sit down to meal around 5pmish) - should i turn it to the high setting? and also, does what i have done sound ok?? :S

first time using slow cooker, and have never ever cooked lamb before, so am nervous!!!!!!

Pink.

Hi carlamagee,

What you have done sounds delicious. The only thing I might add would be some garlic, but that's just because I love garlic with lamb.

It will depend on the individual slow cooker but if I was you I'd turn it up to the high setting for the first hour or so then turn it down and it should be ready by 5pm.

Pink