super cheap but delicious pulled lamb ragu on gluten free pasta
 
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Lamb shanks in particular are a ridiculously good life choice - they’re super cheap, tasty and such a freaking crowd pleaser - with minimal effort. It’s almost embarrassing that it isn’t harder to make… the only thing you need here is patience - which for some is hard, but if you put it on in the early afternoon, go do your thang, then all your efforts will be immensely rewarded.
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Eat for: dinner
Cuisine: gluten free, fructose free, sugar free
Serves: 4
INGREDIENTS:
  • 1 teaspoon dried thyme
  • 1 onion, finely diced
  • 2 large garlic cloves, finely diced
  • 2 large lamb shanks
  • 1 400g cans diced tomato (no salt added)
  • 1 cup water
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 packet Barilla’s Gluten Free Penne Pasta
  • Himalayan salt and cracked pepper to taste
  • 1 large handful fresh flat leaf parsley roughly chopped
  • 1 large handful fresh mint roughly chopped
INSTRUCTIONS:
  1. Sprinkle lamb shanks with salt and pepper and rub into the flesh.
  2. Heat a heavy pot with the oil until quite hot, then fry the lamb 3 minutes on each side to seal then remove lamb from the pot and set aside.
  3. In the same pot, sweat the onion on low for about 5 minutes without burning.
  4. Add the garlic and cook another minute until fragrant.
  5. Add tomatoes, water, thyme and lamb into the pot.
  6. Bring pot to the boil then simmer covered for four hours or until tender and pulling away from the bones.
  7. Using a folk, shred meat off the bones and discard the bones then let the meat rest in the sauce while you prepare the pasta.
  8. Cook the pasta according to the packet with lots of salt in the water.
  9. Serve the pulled lamb on pasta with handfuls of the fresh herbs.
Recipe by The Unimpossibles at https://www.theunimpossibles.com/super-cheap-but-delicious-pulled-lamb-ragu-on-gluten-free-pasta/