Tarragon Lamb Shanks with Cannellini Beans

Name: Tarragon Lamb Shanks with Cannellini Beans
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 0 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper; 794 grams diced tomatoes, undrained; 539 grams cannellini beans or other white beans, rinsed and drained; 355 milliliters diced peeled carrot; 177 milliliters chopped celery; 2 teaspoons dried tarragon; 2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced; 3 kilograms lamb shanks; 237 milliliters chopped onion; 1 teaspoons salt

Tarragon Lamb Shanks with Cannellini Beans is a gluten free and dairy free main course. This recipe serves 12. One portion of this dish contains roughly 24g of protein, 3g of fat, and a total of 180 calories. Head to the store and pick up salt, carrot, tarragon, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the onion you could follow this main course with the Candy Corn Cupcakes as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes.

Instructions

Trim fat from lamb shanks.

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Lamb Shanks

Place beans and next 4 ingredients (through garlic) in a 7-quart electric slow cooker; stir well.

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Garlic

Beans

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Place lamb shanks on bean mixture; sprinkle with tarragon, salt, and pepper.

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Lamb Shanks

Tarragon

Pepper

Salt

Pour tomatoes over lamb. Cover and cook on HIGH for 1 hour. Reduce heat to LOW, and cook 9 hours or until lamb is very tender.

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Tomato

Lamb

Remove lamb shanks from slow cooker.

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Lamb Shanks

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Slow Cooker

Pour bean mixture through a colander or sieve over a bowl, reserving liquid.

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Let liquid stand 5 minutes; skim fat from surface of liquid. Return bean mixture to liquid.

Remove lamb from bones; discard bones.

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Lamb

Serve lamb with bean mixture.

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Lamb

Nutrition Tip: Canned beans are a convenient option when you don't have time to prepare dried beans--the drawback is the sodium content. Reduce the sodium content of any variety of canned beans by 40 percent simply by draining and rinsing them.

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Dried Beans