Tajine of lamb shanks

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By Food24 November 03 2009
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Ingredients (18)

60.00 ml sunflower oil
16.00 lamb — shanks
4.00 onions — peeled and sliced
2.00 fresh coriander
2.00 ml coriander — ground
2.00 ml cumin — ground
2.00 red chillies
10.00 cm fresh ginger — peeled, chopped
15.00 ml turmeric
saffron — ground
2.00 cinnamon — stick
125.00 ml vegetable oil
65.00 ml honey
3.00 garlic — cloves, peeled and sliced
250.00 ml wine — white
30.00 prunes — pitted, soaked in tea
3.00 limes — cut small pieces
fresh coriander — to garnish
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Method:

1. Heat oil in a saucepan and sauté lamb shanks until brown. Transfer to an ovenproof dish..
2. Sauté onions in oil until they start to caramelise.
3. Place fresh and ground coriander, cumin, chillies, ginger, turmeric, saffron, cinnamon sticks, oil and honey in a food processor and process into a purée.
4. Add purée to cooked onions and continue to sauté.
5. Add garlic and cook until mixture begins to stick to the bottom of the pan.
6. Add wine, stir well, and pour mixture over shanks. Cover with foil and bake in a preheated oven at 190 ºC for 1 hour. Test with a skewer after 40 minutes to see if the shanks are cooked.
7. Remove shanks from sauce and cover with foil to keep warm.
8. Skim fat from sauce and reduce liquid until it has thickened.
9. Add the prunes, a little of the soaking liquid and the preserved limes.
10. Pour the sauce over the shanks, garnish with coriander and serve with couscous.



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