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Baked lamb shank with romesco sauce recipe

Baked lamb shank with romesco sauce recipe

9 ratings

Looking for a Sunday roast for two? Try this one-tray dish with tender lamb shanks, rosemary and potatoes. Whilst the lamb slow cooks, prepare a punchy romesco sauce with the peppers, almonds, garlic, oil and vinegar, perfect for spooning over the meat once served. See method

  • Serves 2
  • 15 mins to prepare and 2 hrs 15 mins to cook
  • 670 calories / serving

Ingredients

  • 100g peppadew peppers, drained and finely chopped
  • 1 clove garlic, chopped
  • 25g almonds, toasted and chopped
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1tbsp red wine vinegar
  • 2 lamb shanks
  • 8 shallots, peeled and halved
  • 4 garlic cloves, left whole and bashed
  • 2 rosemary stalks, leaves stripped
  • 4 thyme stalks, leaves stripped
  • ½ lemon, halved
  • 200ml chicken stock
  • 300g new potatoes, halved
If you haven't got any new potatoes, try dicing a large white potato instead

Each serving contains

  • Energy

    2800kj
    670kcal     34%

  • Fat

    35g 50%

  • Saturates

    9g 47%

  • Sugars

    11g 12%

  • Salt

    1.3g 22%

of the reference intake
Carbohydrate 36.6g Protein 48.1g Fibre 53g

Method

Looking for a Sunday roast for two? Try this one-tray dish with tender lamb shanks, rosemary and potatoes. Whilst the lamb slow cooks, prepare a punchy romesco sauce with the peppers, almonds, garlic, oil and vinegar, perfect for spooning over the meat once served.

  1. Heat oven to 160C/140 C fan/gas 3. To make the romesco sauce, mix the peppers, garlic, almonds, oil and vinegar together with some seasoning then set aside.
  2. Put the remaining ingredients except the potatoes in a large baking dish, transfer to the oven and cook for 1 1/2 hours.
  3. Increase the oven temperature to 180C/ 160C fan/gas 5. Remove the tray from the oven and toss in the potatoes then return the tray to the oven and cook for a further 45 minutes. If your potatoes are not quite tender, remove the lamb to rest and continue cooking your potatoes.
  4. Serve the lamb with the potatoes, the sticky pan juices and the romesco sauce.

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