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 might be just the main course you are searching for. Watching your figure? This gluten free and dairy free recipe has 180 calories, 24g of protein, and 3g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 12. This recipe covers 18% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. 1 person found this recipe to be yummy and satisfying. A mixture of onion, canned tomatoes, carrot, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so delicious. To use up the salt you could follow this main course with the Apple Turnovers Recipe as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 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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Slow Cooker

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