Greek Style Lamb Shank with Orzo

This video was created in partnership with the American Lamb Board.

This amazing Greek-Style Lamb shank is seared and braised in a delicious Greek tomato sauce with spice and herbs and served over orzo pasta. Once you try this recipe, it will quickly become one of your favorites.

Greek-style lamb is lamb shanks that are seared and slow braised in a Greek tomato sauce until tender and fall off the bone. The sauce is the most essential part of the dish as it is used to infuse its flavor into the lamb while cooking it. While this isn’t an incredibly well-known dish, it is commonly served at Greek restaurants.

This is a dish that my dad and I love and always order when we visit Pegasus in Greek Town, Detroit. The flavors in the light tomato sauce are delicious and do a fantastic job of flavoring the entire dish. While I served the lamb shank over orzo, it can also be served with Greek-Style rice.

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Ingredients for this recipe:

• 4 lamb shanks
• ½ cup olive oil
• 1 peeled and finely grated yellow onion
• 1 rib of finely grated celery
• 1 peeled and finely grated carrot
• 4 finely grated garlic cloves
• 1 cup red wine
• 2 28-ounce cans whole peeled tomatoes crushed by hand
• 2 teaspoons dry oregano
• 1 teaspoon dry thyme
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 8 all-spice berries
• 1 pound orzo
• sea salt and pepper to taste
• optional chopped fresh oregano, thyme, and parsley for garnish