Lamb Shanks With Leeks and Grapes
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Mario Batali’s Lamb Shanks With Leeks and Grapes
http://www.food.com/recipe/mario-batalis-lamb-shanks-with-leeks-and-grapes-
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Ingredients
o 10 lamb shanks
o kosher salt
o black pepper
o 6 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
o 2 Spanish onions, chopped
o 5 carrots, peeled and cut into 1 inch pieces
o 6 leeks
o 2 cups dry white wine
o 1 cup tomato sauce
o 3 cups chicken stock, Brown
o 2 cups red grapes, Concord grapes, halved and seeded
Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees
2. Rinse and dry the lamb shanks, and season them liberally with salt and pepper. In a
very large heavy-bottomed Dutch oven, heat the olive oil over medium-high heat until
smoking. Add the lamb shanks, 5 at a time, and sear until dark golden brown all over, 10
to 12 minutes per batch. Remove the shanks and set them aside.
3. Add the onions, garlic, carrots, and leeks to the pot and cook until softened, 8-10
minutes. Use only the white and light green parts of the Leaks only, trimmed, halved
lengthwise, cut crosswise into thin half-moons, rinsed thoroughly, and drained.
4. Add the wine, tomato sauce, and sock to the vegetables and bring to a boil. Return the
lamb shanks to the pot and bring back to a boil. Cover the pot tightly, place it in the oven,
and bake for about 1.5 hours, until the meat is fork-tender.
5. Remove the pot from the oven, check the sauce for seasoning, and then add the grapes.
Stir them in gently, and serve directly from the pot.
Pattern: KD Yang xu, blood xu
Recipe Analysis
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Julie Johnson Bear Don’t Walk / Eastern Nutrition / Fall 2013
Lamb shanks: tonify KD yang, nourish blood, hot
Leeks and Onions: promotes sweating, resolves phlem, diuretic
Carrots: promotes digestion, lubricates intestines, clears heat
White wine: move qi, nourish yin
Tomato sauce: nourish fluids, cooling
Chicken stock: warming, tonify qi, boost wei qi
Grapes: nourish yin, generate fluids, build blood
Overall, this recipe tonifies KD yang, as the main ingredient is lamb—hot and yang. However,
it also supports blood and yin, with the tomatoes and grapes as secondary ingredients. The
leeks and onions, and the wine, keep the cloying nature of tonifying ingredients from getting too
sticky. Overall, this seems like a good recipe to try for a postpartum mother, with the possibility
of removing the onions and sticking with maybe half the leeks, emphasizing the nourishing more
than the dispersing.
