Slow Cooker Lamb Shanks

Lamb shanks, if you are not familiar with them, are the most tender, fall off the bone, cuts of meat you can imagine. Lamb goes particularly well with rosemary so I made a very simple dish that is a fix it and forget it masterpiece. I was literally poolside while this was cooking. I came home to a delightful meal that looked as if I had been working for hours. In its most basic form, this recipe can be quite successful with just garlic, rosemary and onion. I added a few more flavors to make a full meal out of one plate. 

Ingredients:

• 2-4 Lamb shanks
• 4-6 carrots
• 1 onion, cut into wedges
• 1 tbl garlic, minced
• 2 twigs rosemary 
• 1/2 cup red wine
• salt and pepper
• 5-10 small tomatoes quartered or 2 large tomatoes chopped

Recipe:

Cut the onion into 8ths like an orange. Place in the bottom of the pot. Wash and peel the outside of the carrots and place with the onions. Quarter the tomatoes and drop in with the rosemary, garlic and wine. Add the lamb shanks to the top and season with salt and pepper. 
Cover and cook on low for 7-9 hours. I put mine in at 8:30 AM and served it around 6pm. 

I served the shanks up with garlic smashed potatoes. Potatoes aren't Paleo but I don't care. I love potatoes and don't react to them like some people do. Perhaps it is my Indian genes. Perhaps my Irish. Either way, I love all nightshades. 

 

Playing by the tobacco while our food was cooking away.