Moroccan lamb shanks

  • Portion size: Serves 4
  • Ready in about 3 hours
  • Difficulty: easy

Melt-in-the-mouth lamb, slow-cooked with all those fantastically aromatic flavours of North Africa, and a sweet hit from the addition of apricots.

Not quite right? These curried lamb shanks are similar.

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Ingredients

  • 2 tsp cumin seeds
  • 1 tbsp coriander seeds
  • 3cm piece fresh ginger, chopped
  • 4 garlic cloves, chopped
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 4 lamb shanks, about 450g each
  • 2 large red onions, cut into wedges
  • 11/2 tbsp Belazu Rose Harissa or Bart Spices Harissa Paste (both from major supermarkets)
  • 200g can chopped tomatoes
  • 600ml chicken stock, hot
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 100g dried ready-to-eat apricots, halved
  • 100g dried ready-to-eat figs, halved
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Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 160°C/fan140°C/gas 3. Bash the cumin and coriander in a pestle and mortar or whizz together in a mini food processor, then add the ginger, garlic and salt, and work or whizz to a rough paste. Set aside.
  2. Heat the oil in a large flameproof casserole (large enough for the lamb shanks to fit snugly) over a high heat. Add the lamb shanks and brown well all over. Remove and set aside.
  3. Reduce the heat to medium. Add the onions to the casserole and cook for 5 minutes. Stir in the spice paste and harissa and cook for 1 minute. Add the tomatoes and stock, return the shanks to the casserole and stir together. Bring to the boil and drop in the cinnamon stick. Cover with a lid, transfer to the oven and cook for 2 hours, turning the lamb once or twice.
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  5. Stir the dried fruit into the casserole and return to the oven, uncovered, for a further 30 minutes or until the lamb is almost falling off the bone. Serve with hot couscous flavoured with mint, coriander, preserved lemon and lemon juice.

Nutrition

  • 826kcals Calories
  • 41.2g (15g saturated) Fat
  • 91.6g Protein
  • 31.4g (28.7g sugar) Carbs
  • 3g Salt
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Dawn McAllister

I love this recipe because with all those Moroccan flavours it is great for a Sunday family lunch or a dinner party treat, the choice is yours. Slow cooked for tenderness, giving you more time to spend with your friends or with the kids.

ValerieBrown

I love this recipe because its so good the family ask for it again and again – tender, spicy, warming – a treat for Sunday lunch or anytime

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