Welsh Lamb Shank Casserole

A delicious and easy recipe for Welsh Lamb Shanks, cooked in the oven in a rich red wine and vegetable casserole. The ultimate in simple comfort food this Winter!

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It’s the time of year when I start craving hearty comfort food. Slow cooked meats, tasty casseroles and bowls of mashed potato. Delicious! If that sounds right up your street then you’re going to love this recipe too.

Tender Welsh Lamb shanks slow cooked in the oven in a rich red wine casserole until the meat is falling off the bone. This recipe might look and sound complicated but I promise it’s so easy!

I’ve been working with PGI Welsh Lamb for a few years now and am always so impressed by the quality of meat from Wales. Unlike more intensive and industrial systems of farming in other parts of the world, Welsh sheep and cattle are overwhelmingly reared on the land’s natural resources of grass and rainwater, making Welsh Lamb sustainable and with a low impact on the environment.

Nutrition wise, red meat plays an important part in an overall healthy and balanced diet. Welsh Lamb is rich in iron and with high amounts of Omega 3, Vitamin E and beta carotene and of course is a key source of protein too.

So on with the recipe… I said this was easy and genuinely mean that! The first step is to season the Welsh Lamb shanks and then brown them in a casserole dish. Then remove and add in the vegetables – onion, garlic, carrots and celery.

Add some flour which will help thicken the sauce and then add stock, wine, tomato puree and fresh herbs. Bring that to the boil then add the lamb shanks back in and put the dish into the oven.

Half way through, turn the shanks and add some button mushrooms.

The oven does all the hard work in this recipe. Left for 2.5 hours, the result is perfectly cooked lamb shanks, crisp and gnarly on the outside with the most tender and succulent meat on the inside.

The sauce is rich and packed full of flavour from the lamb, red wine and the vegetables.

Mashed potato is the perfect accompaniment to this dish, soaking up all that incredible sauce so that you don’t waste a drop of that flavour.

On the side I also add some cooked kale. A freshly cooked green vegetable just finishes the dish off amazingly.

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For more delicious lamb recipes head over to the PGI Welsh Lamb website.