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This week, we’ve got your winter weekend meals sorted with these slow cooked dishes – from a slow cooked lamb shank to chicken drumstick and leek casserole with quinoa and the perfect slow cooked beef, these warming recipes are wholesome, delicious and can slow cook all day long while you enjoy your weekend, without the hassle of dinner prep!
Slow Cooked Lamb Shanks
Video via Jamie Oliver’s Food Tube
Chicken Drumstick and Leek Casserole with Quinoa
Video via Woolworths
Perfect Slow-Cooked Beef
Video via Gordan Ramsay
Life-Changing Lamb Shanks Recipe
Cosy winter evenings should be spent indulging in hearty meats, warming flavours and reality television shows. We’ve got you covered for two out of three of those with this life-changing slow cooker recipe for lamb shanks from Lorna Jane’s Move Nourish Believe. Gluten and guilt free, all you need is a slow cooker and netflix for the ultimate in winter hibernation.
(Serves 4)
Ingredients:
– 4 organic lamb shanks, trimmed*
– Gluten free (all-purpose) flour, for dusting
– 1 tablespoon extra virgin coconut oil
– 1 onion, chopped roughly
– 4 cloves garlic, minced
– ½ cup (250ml) red wine
– 1 cup (250ml) beef stock
– ½ of a 400g can crushed tomatoes
– 1 sprig of rosemary
– 1 sprig of thyme
– Himalayan salt and cracked black pepper
– Steamed greens (broccolini and beans), to serve.
Method:
1. Turn on the slow cooker to low heat to start warming up.
2. Toss the lamb shanks in gluten free flour, Himalayan salt and cracked black pepper, shaking off any excess.
3. Place half of the coconut oil in a large pan over high heat. Add the shanks and brown well on each side. Remove and place in slow cooker.
4. Add the remaining oil to the pan which the shanks were cooked in and sauté the onions and garlic until golden. Remove and place in slow cooker with lamb.
5. Add the wine, stock, tomatoes, rosemary, thyme, Himalayan salt and cracked black pepper to the slow cooker.
6. Cook on high for 2 hours then turn down to low for 4-6hours (or turn mine on to low first thing in the morning, head to work and leave it on low all day until you get home at night).
7. Remove the shanks from slow cooker after approx. 8hrs and pour sauce into a pot on the stove. Simmer the sauce, uncovered, for 10 minutes or until reduced and thickened. Option to add 1 tsp of organic corn flour to thicken the sauce faster.
8. Serve lamb shanks on top of cauliflower mash, topped with thickened sauce and steamed greens on the side.
*Ask your butcher to trim both ends of the shanks for you. Although not essential, it makes them easier to handle and they fit better into the slow cooker.
Recipe and image courtesy of movenourishbelieve.com
feature image via pinterest