Slow Roast Lamb Shank With Beer

secondattempt

Hi,

I saw a very interesting recipe on an old episode of Rick Stein. A Majorcan lady roasts lamb (if I remember rightly) over some root vegetables, lemon pieces with San Miguel beer poured over it. Stein himself says this one would be difficult to re-create at home without the old open oven she had.

Would a variation of this work with a lamb shank in the average cooking dish and fan oven? Root veg, lemon, beer and the shank?

Could anyone give some advice on this or would I be better to try a more tried and tested approach for a lamb shank?

I'm relatively new to cooking properly!

Dizzyblonde

I had a google and it seems that it worked very well in a normal oven for his person http://forums.hexus.net/kitchen-cooking/116745-leg-lamb-oven.html
However, like the lady on Rick Stein they used leg of lamb. Lamb shank is a different story altogether and needs to be cooked for a long time at a lower temperature.
So, what you'd want to do is a version of the above recipe with the cooking times and temperature from a recipe for lamb shanks, such as this one http://www.independent.ie/life/food-drink/lamb-shanks-with-roast-root-vegetables-26627463.html
You'd also need to cover the dish, as per the second recipe.

There's a lovely, tried and tested recipe for lamb shanks in our Cooking Club too

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=83762871

secondattempt

Perfect. I have a small leg I can try. Any ideas on temperature in a fan oven? Recipe suggests 2 hours.

Dizzyblonde

If you're cooking it for 2 hours I'd say 160C should do it.