Lamb bourguignon

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This stove-top slow-cooked lamb stew with tender pieces of succulent lamb braised in red wine and cognac is flavoured with carrots, onions, mushrooms, bacon and a bouquet garni.

"Lamb shanks simmered slowly in a rich, red wine sauce with onions and mushrooms is pretty hard to beat. I could eat this all winter!" - Manu Feildel

Tender, fall off the bone easy braised Lamb Shanks in a luxuriously delicious red wine gravy! Oven, stove top, slow cooker or Instant pot.

A classic French stew is given the Kiwi treatment and just as delicious with New Zealand lamb.

Not many stews or casseroles make it to restaurant menus. You may find coq au vin or beef bourguignon in a French restaurant or lamb shanks with mash may turn up at the local pub, but as a general rule, slow cooked meat dishes lie in the domain of the home cook, of hearty – yet delicious – comfort food. Osso buco is another exception to the rule. For osso buco is more than the sum of its parts.

Recipe video above. Considered by many to be the mother of all stews, Beef Bourguignon is a French dish made with beef, bacon lardons, carrots, onions and mushrooms slow-cooked in a rich red wine sauce. For the most magnificent stew of your life, start this 2 days before you plan to serve it, do not shortcut pan roasting ingredients individually, and use homemade beef stock if you can!

Not many stews or casseroles make it to restaurant menus. You may find coq au vin or beef bourguignon in a French restaurant or lamb shanks with mash may turn up at the local pub, but as a general rule, slow cooked meat dishes lie in the domain of the home cook, of hearty – yet delicious – comfort food. Osso buco is another exception to the rule. For osso buco is more than the sum of its parts. Why is osso buco so popular? The magic lies in the use of veal shanks, which are extraordinarily…

Ultra-tender chunks of beef, seared vegetables, and a rich, velvety red wine sauce make this French stew ultra-cozy.

As far as French cuisine goes, this Classic Beef Bourguignon is a must make! Tender beef swimming in a rich wine sauce--perfect for the holidays.