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Italian Osso Bucco (Dutch Oven Recipe)
Description
I am typically pretty simple with my recipes because I don’t like complicated! But, with our grass fed beef business, I like to try all the different cuts and play with recipes. This was my first time with Osso Bucco, which is an Italian dish that is braised most often beef stock and a red wine. It is typically made from a veal shank, although the cut we offer is from beef shanks (you could also use thick-cut short ribs as an alternative).
The flavor really was amazing! I LOVE the Gremolata that goes on top!!
Recipe adapted from simplerecipes.
Ingredients
Scale
- ¼ lb Pancetta, diced
- 3 lbs Osso Bucco
- ½ cup Carrots, diced
- ½ cup Celery, diced
- 1 Onion, medium, diced
- 2 tbsp Garlic cloves, chopped
- 3 Thyme, 3-4 sprigs fresh or 1 tsp, dried
- 1 cup Dry white wine
- 2 cups Chicken Stock
- Flour for dusting the meat, I used almond flour to keep it gluten free
- Salt and Pepper as desired
Gremolata
- 2 tbsp Italian Parsley, minced
- 1 tbsp Lemon Zest
- 2 Garlic Cloves, crushed and minced
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325°F
- Brown the pancetta: Heat a dutch oven on the stove top over medium heat for about five minutes. Add pancetta to pan, cook, stirring occasionally.
- When the pancetta is crispy and most of the fat has rendered (about 5 minutes of cooking), remove the pancetta to a plate covered with some paper towel and set aside.
- If necessary, drain off all but two tablespoons of the fat from the pan.
- Cover the shanks in flour, brown in pan: Season the shank well with salt and pepper. Shake off any excess flour, and add the meat to the hot fat in the pan.
- Increase the heat to medium high and cook the meat on each side until well browned (about 5 minutes per side). Remove the meat to a plate, set aside.
- Sauté onions, carrots, celery: Add the onions, carrots, and celery to the dutch oven. Cook the onion mixture, stirring frequently, until the onions are translucent (about five minutes) and toss in the garlic and thyme.
- Continue cooking until the vegetables just begin to brown (about 10 minutes).
- Return shanks to pan, add wine and stock: Add the shanks and the pancetta back to the pan. Pour in the wine, and then add enough stock to come a little more than half way up the side of the shanks.
- Bring to a simmer. Cover the pan and put it in the oven to cook until the meat is tender, about an hour to an hour and a half.
- Make gremolata: Combine the gremolata ingredients, place in a separate small serving dish. Sprinkle with gremolata.
