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Red wine and minty lamb shanks

Tender and slow cooked to perfection

4

Serves

15 mins

Prep Time

8 hrs

Cook Time

Pippa Hawkins

Recipe author

Pippa Hawkins

These lamb shanks are slowly cooked in a delicious sauce until they fall apart. Red wine paired with whole grain mustard, fresh mint and honey combine to create a sauce with a wonderful depth of flavour. We also added baby carrots to the slow cooker which caramelised beautifully in the sauce. Serve shanks on a kumara and potato mash and enjoy.

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Ingredients

Lamb

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4 Quality Mark lamb shanks

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2 Tbsp olive oil

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½ tsp salt and pepper

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2 medium onions

finely chopped

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4 garlic cloves

crushed

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1 cup red wine

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2 cups beef stock

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2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce

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2 Tbsp whole grain mustard

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2 Tbsp honey

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⅓ cup mint leaves

roughly chopped

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500g baby carrots

washed and green parts removed

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mint leaves

to garnish

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potato

mash

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kumara

mash

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seasonal greens

Method

To Slow Cook

To Make Sauce

To Serve

Oven Method

1

Turn your slow cooker to low.

2

Heat a frying pan to moderate-high heat on the stove-top and add half the olive oil.

3

Season the lamb with salt and pepper and brown, turning often to brown all sides.

4

Set lamb aside.

5

Add remaining measure of oil to the fry pan and add the onions and garlic, stirring for about 15 seconds, or until fragrant.

6

Immediately add the wine, and boil for 1 minute.

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Add the beef stock, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, honey and half the chopped mint and bring to a gentle simmer then remove from the heat.

8

Transfer lamb to the slow cooker and pour the sauce over it.

9

Cover with the lid and cook on low for 8 hours or high for approx 4 hours, or until the meat tender and easily pulled from the bone.

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Approx 2 hours before the end of cooking add the baby carrots and stir through the sauce.

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Nutrition Information per Serving (623g)

This nutrition analysis is based on 4 serves and does not include the potato/kumara or seasonal greens.

Energy

2171kJ (519 kcal)

Protein

53.3g

Total Fat

19.9g

Saturated Fat

4.8g

Carbs

17.0g

Dietary Fibre

5.6g

Sodium

944mg

Iron

4.6mg

Zinc

9.8mg

Vitamin B12

3.0µg