Ingredients
Shanks:
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons kosher salt
- 2 tablespoons cracked black pepper
- 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 3 pork shanks (1 1/4 to 1 1/2 pounds each)
- 2 cups grapeseed oil
- 1 large onion, diced small
- 2 ribs celery, diced small
- 3 large carrots, chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, peeled
- 1 sprig fresh rosemary
- 2 sprigs fresh thyme
- 1 cup sherry wine
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 2 cups beef stock
Mushroom Dumplings:
- 1 1/4 cups self-rising flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped chives
- 1 (10.5-ounce) can condensed cream of mushroom soup
- 1 cup chicken stock
Directions
Shanks:
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
In a shallow 9 by 9-inch baking dish, add the flour, salt, pepper, and paprika. Mix well. Dredge each pork shank into the flour until evenly coated. Shake off excess flour.
In a large heavy casserole dish or Dutch oven over medium-high heat, add the grapeseed oil. Sear the shanks on all sides until evenly browned, about 5 to 7 minutes. Remove the seared shanks to a platter. Add onions, celery, carrots, garlic, rosemary and thyme to the Dutch oven. Cook stirring frequently until vegetables soften, about 3 to 4 minutes. Add the sherry and allow the wine to reduce by half. Stir in the chicken broth and beef stock. Bring to a boil and add the shanks back to pan. Cover and put into the oven. Braise until the meat is fork tender and pulling away from the bones, about 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Turn oven off. Remove the shanks from the pot and arrange on a quarter sheet tray, cover with foil and keep warm in the oven. Skim off any excess fat and strain liquid into a large mixing bowl, discarding the solids. Put the strained liquid back into the braising pot and bring to a simmer over low heat.
Mushroom Dumplings:
Sift the flour, salt, garlic powder and pepper into a medium-sized mixing bowl. Combine the butter into flour with your hands until well incorporated. Add the chives and the soup. Mix together well with your hands to form a soft dumpling dough. Drop the dumpling dough by the tablespoonfuls into the strained liquid with an additional 1 cup of chicken stock. Cook the dumplings for 8 to 10 minutes. Arrange the pork shanks on a platter and ladle the sauce and dumplings over top.
















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By grannyn
Wisconsin
on January 16, 2013
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Was just gifted pork shanks and was so glad to find this recipe. Incredibly good.
By xmarie_10261095
somerset, KY
on August 17, 2012
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Was very good thanks..I like pork hocks better because they have more meat.....and here is how I make them.......2 lg. fresh pork hocks...brown them as he did his...little salt and pepper. now in your crock pot/slow cooker add 1/2 small onion quartered. 1 or two chopped cloves garlic 1 bay leaf and 3/4 can of reg. beer....mix together in small bowl..1 teaspoon honey and 1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar..add hocks to crock pot and brush over top with mixture. cover and cook 2 hours on high ....do not turn them over or raise lid.....after 2 hours peel 2 sweet potatoes cut in chunks boil in salted water with rest of beer.....till fork tender, drain add butter salt and pepper to taste and mash with hand masher....to serve with hocks.....remove hocks and onions and thicken sauce with a little corn starch that you mixed with small amount of water......drizzle over top of hocks and sweet potatoes and serve with a nice roll.....enjoy
By hazelsimpson_12...
Delhi, 57
on July 14, 2012
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I would have never paired pork shanks with dumplings but it was superb. I love the dumplings and I will try it again and again and again. I just love your show. Keep it coming!!!!!!!
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