Porter Shanks

(Serves 6)

Ingredients

• 1 rasher bacon, chopped finely
• 2 onions, chopped
• 3 cloves garlic, chopped
• sml bunch fresh marjoram, chopped finely
• 6 lamb shanks
• 330 ml bottle robust porter (a strong black beer)
• 3 lge carrots, peeled and sliced into chunks
• 2 sticks celery, sliced thickly
• 1 sml parsnip
• 1 bay leaf

Method

Sweat the bacon, onion, garlic and marjoram in oil. Set aside.

Sear the lamb shanks on all sides.

Put shanks into a casserole dish with the bacon, onion, garlic and marjoram mixture.

Add the bottle of porter, carrot, celery, parsnip and bay leaf. Cover the casserole with a tight lid (use baking paper if the seal isn’t secure).

Cook at 180ºC for two hours or until meat falls away easily from the bone.