Alright, so I did this recipe at work and I didn't exactly measure everything out perfectly, but it should be fairly accurate. And since I was at work I couldn't take any pictures, so use your imagination.
Roast lamb shanks
Ingredients:
• Salt
• Fine ground pepper
• Extra virgin olive oil
• 1 head of garlic
• Pinch of thyme
• A few sprigs of fresh rosemary
• 3-4 lamb shanks
• 1 cup chicken stock
• 1tbsp all purpose flour
1. Preheat oven to 500 degrees F
2. Lightly coat lamb shanks with olive oil.
3. Generously season with salt, pepper and a pinch of thyme and place in oven-safe casserole dish or deep roasting pan(to retain juices)
4. When oven is heated up, place roasting pan in oven to brown the lamb shanks.
5. After 15 minutes of browning, remove lamb shanks and turn oven down to 300 degrees F.
6. Lightly crush each individual clove of garlic and remove the skin. Throw the garlic and rosemary in the roasting pan and cover the pan tightly with aluminum foil.
7. Return the roasting pan to the oven.
8. After two hours, remove the foil from the pan and add the chicken stock to the pan. Turn the oven up to 400 degrees F.
9. After 15-20 minutes, remove pan from oven. Place the lamb shanks aside on a plate.
10. Skim a few spoonfuls of fat from the top of the juices in the pan and put in a small saucepan. Put the saucepan on the stove on low-medium heat. Slowly whisk in the flour so it does not clump. Cook until it starts to brown a bit.
11. Add the rest of the pan juices to the saucepan and turn heat up to medium-high. Keep whisking the sauce as it starts to boil until slightly thickened.
12. Turn heat to low and add two lamb shanks at a time to the sauce pan, rotating them to evenly reheat them. When they are reheated, place each shank on a serving plate.
13. Keep the sauce simmering until thick(but by this point it should already be thick enough). Drizzle the remaining sauce in the pan over each lamb shank.
14. Serve with your favourite side of potatos.