247: Anchovy Lamb Shank

At last, success is mine! Yay, it feels like an age since I've managed any new cooking success. However, I *puffs chest out* declare this to be so. I've long been told that lamb and anchovies are a good marriage, so I wanted to put these together, alongside some ripe for picking courgettes from the garden.

Ingredients:

• 1 lamb shank
• 3 cloves of garlic. Possibly excessive
• 1 small tin of anchovies
• Herbs: 1 sprig of rosemary, 3 (smaller) sprigs of thyme, a good shake of dried oregano
• 1/2 tin of chopped tomatoes
• 1 smallish courgette, chopped in to cubes

Method - fantastically easy...

• Place all ingredients in a bowl. Covering lamb shank with the anchovies
• Cover
• Oven @180 for ~2 hours, stirring occaisionally

That's it.

And here it is.

I put all the tin of anchovies on - including the oil. Which made the sauce a bit oily and doesn't look that great. But it all tasted nice. The anchovies gave the sauce richness and depth. And nice taste.



Ongoing loss of cooking mojo confession....
Regular readers of this diatribe will know Mrs VegBox is no fan of lamb. So, I'd bought her a pork chop instead of the lamb. And then completely forgot to cook it. Oops.