Lemon Lamb Shank
Lemon lamb shank is a recipe featuring fresh ingredients from the lamb category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!
Ingredients
- 4 small lamb shanks (≈380 g each)
- Salt
- black pepper (freshly ground)
- 4 onions
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp dry white wine
- 500 ml lamb stock
- 3 untreated lemons
- 4 wild garlic leaves
- 1 tsp sugar
Instructions
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1.
Preheat the oven to 170°C fan.
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2.
Wash, pat dry and season the lamb shanks with salt and pepper. Peel and dice the onions. Brown the lamb in a Dutch oven over hot oil all sides. Add the onions and cook until translucent. Deglaze with white wine, add lamb stock, cover and braise in the preheated oven for about 2½ hours.
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3.
Wash and pat dry the lemons; slice two into rounds and grate the zest of the third, then juice it.
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4.
About 20 minutes before the end of cooking, stir the lemon slices, 1 tsp lemon zest and lemon juice into the sauce.
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5.
Wash, shake dry and cut the wild garlic into thin strips. Add them to the sauce at the end, seasoning with salt, pepper and sugar.
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6.
Serve with grilled pita bread sprinkled with oregano and drizzled with olive oil.
