Lamb Shanks

If you love lamb & a nice simple recipe for dinner, this is one for you! 🙌🏽

Lamb Shanks makes for a gorgeous dinner & can feed as many people as you like! Perfect for having people over or just a nice dinner with the family at home.

This meal for us fed 7 people, all depends on how many shanks you want! 😍

Ingredients~

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• Lamb Shanks ( we used 8, but you can do as many or less as you like. )

• 1 bottle of fruitwood red wine

• 2 tins of diced & peeled tomatoes

• 2 brown onions

• 4 tblsp raw sugar • 2 chillis, seeded

• Salt to taste (Add your preferred amount of salt, taste as you go)

• 1 tblsp Beerenberg Worcestershire sauce

• 4 sticks rosemary

• 6 sticks basil

• 6 fresh sage leaves

• 1/2 cup of water

• 9 washed potatoes

• 1/2 cup of thickened cream

Method~ Lamb Shanks

• Pour the bottle of fruitwood red wine into a pot that is large enough for the lamb shanks to all fit inside.

• Add the tomatoes, onions, sugar, chillies, salt, lamb shanks, worcestershire, herbs & water, then turn stove on medium heat.

• Leave to simmer for 3-4 hours in sauce on same heat.

•Serve with mashed potato & dress with the sauce from pot once finished.

Method~ Mashed Potatoes

• Dice potatoes into fine pieces & put in boiling pot filled with water.

• Leave to boil & once soft, drain the water.

• Add the cream to the potatoes & mash together.

•Serve underneath the lamb shanks.