Lamb Shanks Adobo

Total Time: 3 hrs 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 4 lbs lamb shanks, cut into 2-inch thick slices by your butcher
• 1/2 cup red chili powder (mild to medium, preferably new mexican chile)
• 2 cups lamb, chicken or 2 cups veal stock
• 1 (15 ounce) can crushed tomatoes with juice
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 1 canned chipotle chile
• 1 teaspoon adobo sauce, from the canned chipotle
• 1 tablespoon or 1 tablespoon vinegar
• 3 garlic cloves
• 1 teaspoon crumbled dried mexican oregano or 1 teaspoon marjoram
• 2 bay leaves
• minced onion and cilantro (to garnish)

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 300 degrees fahrenheit.
• 2 mix together the lamb shanks and other ingredients in a dutch oven or other heavy pan. bake uncovered for about 3 hours. stir up from the bottom after about 2 hours, then continue baking until the meat is tender and pulls easily away from the bones. if the sauce remains very thin, remove the lamb with a slotted spoon, place the pan on a stove burner, and reduce the sauce until it is thick enough to heavily coat a spoon, then pour the sauce over the lamb.
• 3 serve hot, garnished if you wish with onion and cilantro.