Osso Buco Don Tony Recipes

TRADITIONAL OSSO BUCO

Steps:

• Dust the veal shanks lightly with flour. Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium to medium-high heat. Add the veal, and cook until browned on the outside. Remove to a bowl, and keep warm. Add two cloves of crushed garlic and onion to the skillet; cook and stir until onion is tender. Return the veal to the pan and mix in the carrot and wine. Simmer for 10 minutes.
• Pour in the tomatoes and beef stock, and season with salt and pepper. Cover, and simmer over low heat for 1 1/2 hours, basting the veal every 15 minutes or so. The meat should be tender, but not falling off the bone.
• In a small bowl, mix together the parsley, 1 clove of garlic and lemon zest. Sprinkle the gremolata over the veal just before serving.

OSSO BUCO

Steps:

• In a shallow dish, stir together flour, salt, and black pepper. Dredge meat in seasoned flour. In a large skillet, melt butter with oil over medium heat. Brown meat. Remove meat from pan, and set aside.
• Add onion, carrots, celery, and garlic to drippings in pan. Cook and stir for about 5 minutes.
• Stir in tomato sauce, water, basil, thyme, parsley, and bay leaf. Return meat to pan. Bring to a boil, and reduce heat to simmer. Cover, and cook for 2 1/2 hours.

OSSO BUCO GIAN TONY'S

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a large Dutch oven. Season flour with salt and pepper. Dredge veal shanks in flour. When oil is smoking, add shanks to Dutch oven and brown, turning frequently, about 7 to 8 minutes. Reduce heat to medium, add carrots, onion, celery, canned tomatoes and 4 cups stock. Cover and let simmer about 45 minutes. Add the wine, the diced tomatoes and some of the remaining stock. Place in preheated 375 degree oven for about 45 more minutes, or until tender. Check for seasoning.

GIAN TONY'S RISOTTO FOR OSSO BUCO

Steps:

• In a saucepan melt butter over low heat. Add rice and 2 cups chicken stock. Cook for 16 to 18 minutes, stirring, adding more of the stock as needed. Add saffron to 1/2 cup of stock, dissolve and add to risotto when almost done.
• Plate with Osso buco, sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and with chopped parsley.

OSSO BUCO DON TONY

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• Season the veal shanks all over with salt and pepper. Place the flour on a plate and dredge the veal shanks in the flour, shaking off the excess.
• Heat the olive oil in a large heavy ovenproof pot over medium-high heat. Add the veal shanks and cook for 5 minutes per side, or until browned all over. Transfer them to a plate.
• Add the onion, carrot, celery, chiles, and minced garlic to the same pot. Cook for 3 minutes, or until the vegetables begin to brown. Add the wine and bring to a boil, scraping up the browned bits. Cook for 2 minutes, or until slightly reduced. Then stir in the canned tomatoes with juice, beef broth, and 3 tablespoons of the lime zest.
• Return the veal shanks to the pot and push them down into the sauce. Bring the sauce to a boil and then turn off the heat. Cover the pot tightly, and carefully transfer it to the oven. Braise the veal shanks for 2 hours, or until tender.
• Uncover the pot and continue to cook in the oven for 25 minutes, or until the sauce thickens. Meanwhile, combine the cilantro, whole garlic cloves, and remaining 1 tablespoon lime zest in a food processor and pulse 5 or 6 times, or until finely chopped.
• Transfer the veal shanks to a platter. Season the sauce to taste with salt and pepper, and pour it over the veal shanks. Sprinkle the cilantro mixture generously over the osso buco, and serve.

OSSO BUCO

Steps:

• Heat one ounce of the butter in a large Texas skillet or Dutch oven.
• Add peeled & finely chopped carrot, onion, celery and one of the crushed garlic cloves. Cook gently until onions are golden brown. Remove from heat & transfer to a large ovenproof casserole.
• Coat shanks in flour seasoned with salt & pepper. Heat remaining butter & oil in large frying pan. Add shanks and brown on all sides.
• Carefully pack shanks on top of vegetables in casserole; stand shanks upright to retain marrow in the bones.
• If pan is oily drain excess oil off. Add tomatoes and chop into pan with wooden spoon until the tomatoes are all popped. You could also start with chopped tomatoes or you can puree them. I just find the flavor better with the whole tomatoes and enjoy the tomato chunks with the rest of the veggies and the meat. Deglaze the pan by scraping the goodies up off the bottom of the pan into the tomato juices with a wooden spoon. Add wine, beef broth, basil, thyme, oregano, bay leaf & strip of lemon rind. Taste. Add salt & pepper to taste if necessary.
• Pour sauce over veal shanks & veg in casserole. Bake in moderate (350°F) oven for 2 hours, or until meat is falling away from bones. (Stir occasionally during cooking.)
• Serve over rice, pasta, potatoes or polenta.
• Quickly blend the chopped parsley, grated lemon rind & other crushed garlic clove and serve separately as a fresh, crisp garnish.

OSSO BUCO WITH TOMATOES AND KALAMATA OLIVES

Steps:

• Pat the shanks dry using paper towels.
• In a shallow dish mix flour with seasoned salt (or white salt) and black pepper).
• Coat the shanks in the flour (shaking off any excess flour).
• Heat butter with oil over medium heat in a large Dutch oven.
• Add in shanks and brown on all sides (about 10-12 minutes) remove browned shanks to a bowl.
• Add in onions, carrots, celery, chili flakes and thyme; cook stirring with a wooden spoon for about 6 minutes (adding in the garlic the last 2 minutes of cooking).
• Add in the wine, broth undrained tomatoes, olives and bay leaves; bring to a boil stirring.
• Season with a little salt an black pepper.
• Arrange the shanks in the pot in one layer; bring to a boil on top of the stove.
• Set oven to 325 degrees.
• Transfer the pot to oven and cook covered until tender (about 2-1/2 hours).
• Serve with cooked pasta and pass the grated parmesan cheese at the table.