Omani Lamb Knuckle Shanks Soup Mazza Bishurba Recipes

Steps:

• Wash lamb shanks & place in a large soup pot.
• Add the water.
• Perice loomi (dried lime) on each side and add to the pot.
• Bring to a slow simmer over medium heat, skimming frequently as scum rises.
• When well skimmed and almost boiling, cover and simmer over low heat for 30 minutes.
• In a frying pan gently fry onion in oil until transparent. Add spices and fry for a further 3 minutes.
• Add to the soup with tomatoes and salt and freshly ground pepper to taste.
• Cover and simmer for 1 1/2 hours.
• Remove lime and cinnimon bark and discard.
• Lift out lamb knukles and trim off meat.
• Cut meat into small peices and return to soup.
• Pick over rice and wash well, add to soup.
• Cover and simmer gently for 30 minutes or until rice is very tender.
• Serve hot with khoubiz (flat bead) and lemon halves to squeeze onto individual servings.
• Enjoy.

Steps:

• Trim some fat from chops.
• Melt fat in Dutch oven.
• Add chops and brown well.
• Add all remaining ingredients except flour and green onion.
• Bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat, cover and simmer about 2 hours.
• Remove about 1/4 cup broth from pot and let cool (continue simmering soup in pot).
• Blend cooled broth with flour until smooth.
• Remove and discard lamb bones (meat should be falling apart).
• Stir in flour mixture.
• Cook and stir about 2 minutes, or until soup is slightly thickened.
• Sprinkle each serving with green onions.

Steps:

• Add water and salt and bring to boil.
• Add Lamb to boiling water. 30 minutes(you can debone the meat and cut to cubes first but add bones in water with the meat cubes I prefer to cube the meat after its boiled).
• Remove the meat and/or bones and the goop on top of boiling water.
• add the chopped fennel and boil for 5 minutes Med/high heat.
• add the potatoes and boil for 10 minutes.
• Re introduce the meat if you have not cubed it first and boil 5 minutes.
• Add the parsley and boil for 5 minutes.
• Squeeze the juice of the lemon into the soup watching for the seeds and boil for another 10 minutes.
• The preparation can happen during the boiling as there are distinct steps.

Steps:

• Chop finely the celery, carrot and onion and sauté in 3 tablespoons of olive oil. As soon as the onion begins to change colour, add the lamb and continue to cook. After a few minutes, add the wine and allow to evaporate completely, then add the tomatoes. Continue to cook over a low heat for about one hour, then add the broth.
• Finally add the noodles and cook for a few minutes.
• Serve with freshly ground pepper.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 160°C.
• Trim the knuckles--make them look neat exposing the bone.
• In a large frying pan heat the oil and fry the knuckles on all sides.
• Put into a large ovenproof dish with a lid, big enough to hold all the knuckles and vegetables.
• Repeat cooking until all the knuckles are sealed Add all the sliced veg in dish with lamb.
• Add the peppercorns, garlic, bay leaf, salt, honey and wine to the lamb and put into a slow oven for 2 hours.
• The lamb should be coming away from the bone when it is ready.
• Remove and put on to a dish and cover with tin foil.
• Put the rest on top of the heat and add the molasses sugar and soy and reduce to a third until it becomes syrupy and able to coat the lamb knuckles.
• Strain through a fine sieve into a smaller saucepan.
• Put the knuckles back into the oven-proof dish, coat with sauce and roast in the oven for 20 minutes.
• Baste the knuckles in a couple of times while cooking.