Recipe for Lamb shanks with squash or pumpkin – 2

Ingredients

• Two lamb shanks
• One onion finely chopped
• Two finely chopped cloves of garlic
• 200gm of chopped dried apricots/dates/figs or prunes
• One tablespoon of cumin
• One tablespoon of coriander
• One tablespoon of cinnamon
• 1 butternut squash
• Oil for frying
• 200ml white wine
• 200 ml of lamb or veal stock
• Salt & pepper


Method

• Heat up oil in casserole
• Brown lamb on all sides and take out of pan
• Fry onion till transparent and ten garlic
• Fry spices
• Put back lamb
• Add stock, wine, salt & pepper
• Bring to boil
• Place in oven at 175C for two to two and a half hours
• Half an hour before the end, put in squash cut into bite sized pieces and dried fruit