Cooking Grass-Fed Beef: Episode Four – Beef Shanks Braised Inwards Three-Onion Broth

This video recipe for Beef Shanks Braised inward Three Onion Broth is the 4th inward a serial o Cooking Grass-Fed Beef: Episode 4 – Beef Shanks Braised inward Three-Onion Broth

This video recipe for Beef Shanks Braised inward Three Onion Broth is the 4th inward a serial of videos I'm doing that focus on cooking diverse cuts of grass-fed beef.

These beautiful beef shanks came from Steve Normanton, too were everything you lot desire a braised shank to survive -- moist, tender, sticky, too comforting.

As I looked around for ideas on how to produce these grass-fed beef shanks, I knew I was going to piece of cake braise them (really the alone means to go), only I couldn't determine what precisely to braise them in. So many options, too thus picayune time.

I saw a few recipes that called for the shanks to survive cooked inward a broth made from minute onion soup packets. As much equally the sentiment of taking these wonderfully wholesome, all-natural, grass-fed shanks too sticking them inward a sodium-packed, MSG-laced, artificially flavored too colored, dry out soup mix repulsed me, the sentiment of cooking them inward a French onion soup sounded pretty good.

It was ameliorate than pretty proficient -- it was fantastic! The collagen-rich shanks broke downwardly beautifully too the combination of those succulent chucks of meat, sweetness melted onions, buttery marrow, too rich aromatic sauce over the soft polenta, made for a real impressive bowl of food.

As I advert inward the video, beef shanks are similar a two-for-one deal. Not alone produce you lot larn the marvelous meat, only you lot equally good larn 1 marrowbone per shank! If you've never had beef inwardness before, produce yourself a favor too larn some beef shanks too brand this recipe.

Thanks to Steve Normanton equally park for providing such cracking beef to function with. By the way, those of you lot who desire to create amongst grass-fed beef, only don't similar it medium-rare, should laissez passer on this beef shank recipe a drive -- it's basically impossible for the dish non to survive delicious. Enjoy!

Ingredients:
2 tbsp vegetable oil
4 beef shanks (about 1 1/2-inch thick)
3 large onions
1 bay leave
6 springs thyme
3 cloves garlic, chopped
2 sprigs rosemary
1/2 loving cup diced carrot
1/2 loving cup diced celery
salt too fresh terra firma dark pepper to taste
2 cups beef broth
chives to garnish