Recipe - Lamb Shanks With Garlicky Port Wine Sauce

2 Lamb shanks; about 1 pound
each
Salt and freshly ground
black pepper to taste
1 tablespoon Olive oil
10 Cloves garlic; peeled and
left whole
One half cup Chicken stock or broth
One half cup Port wine*
1 tablespoon Tomato paste
One half teaspoon Dried rosemary
1 tablespoon Unsalted butter
1 teaspoon Balsamic vinegar (up to 2)

Trim excess fat from the lamb shanks and season them with salt and pepper.
Heat the oil in the pressure cooker. Add the shanks and brown on all sides.
When they are almost completely browned, add the garlic cloves and cook
until they are lightly browned but not burned. Add the stock or broth,
port, tomato paste, and rosemary, stirring so the tomato paste dissolves.

Close the pressure cooker and bring up to full pressure (15 pounds). Reduce
heat to stabilize pressure and cook for 30 minutes.

Release pressure and remove the lamb shanks. Return the pressure cooker to
the stove. Boil, uncovered, for 5 minutes to reduce and thicken the sauce.
Whisk in the butter, then add the vinegar. Serve the sauce over the lamb
shanks. Great with mashed potatoes.

*If you don't have port, you can use marsala or sweet sherry, or, what I
often do, the cooking marsala that is sold in grocery stores. The only
thing about the latter is that it is heavy with salt.

This recipe is from THE NEW PRESSURE COOKER COOKBOOK by Pat Dailey
(Contemporary Books, 1990)and there are many other good recipes here as
well. Posted to KitMailbox Digest by "Joanne L. Schweikj"
SCHWEIKJ@fredonia.edu on Aug 22, 199