Portobello Osso Buco Recipes

OSSO BUCO PORTOBELLO

Steps:

• Season flour with salt and pepper. Spread on a plate and dust osso buco with it. In a 4- to 5-quart casserole, heat 3 tablespoons oil on medium high. Add meat and brown on both sides. Remove. Add mushrooms and cook, stirring, about 5 minutes, until they start to wilt and no longer look dry. Remove.
• Add remaining tablespoon oil to pot, reduce heat to low and sauté shallots and garlic until just starting to brown. Deglaze with wine and stock. Season generously with pepper. Stir in vinegar. Return meat and mushrooms to pot, add thyme, cover and cook on very low about 1 hour 15 minutes, basting meat a few times, until meat is tender.
• Season sauce with salt as needed. Transfer meat, mushrooms and sauce to a warm platter, garnish with thyme sprigs and serve.

OSSO BUCO WITH MUSHROOM SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 275°F.
• In a heavy ovenproof kettle large enough to hold veal shanks in one layer heat 1 tablespoon each of oil and butter over moderately high heat until foam begins to subside and sauté onion and celery until beginning to turn golden.
• Pat shanks dry between paper towels and season with salt and pepper. Arrange shanks on onion mixture and roast, covered tightly, in middle of oven 3 hours. (Meat will give off juices as it cooks.) Shanks may be prepared up to this point 1 day ahead and cooled, uncovered, before chilling, covered. Reheat shanks before proceeding.)
• Cut mushrooms into 1/4-inch-thick slices. in a large skillet heat remaining 2 tablespoons each of oil and butter over moderately high heat until foam begins to subside and sauté mushrooms with thyme and salt and pepper to taste, stirring, until mushrooms begin to give off their liquid. Stir in vermouth or wine and lemon juice and cook, stirring, until all but about 1/3 cup liquid is evaporated. Mushrooms may be made 1 day ahead and cooled completely before chilling, covered.
• Transfer shanks to a platter and keep warm. Transfer onions, celery, and pan juices to a blender with 1/2 cup water and purée until smooth, adding more water if necessary to thin sauce to desired consistency. Pour sauce into a saucepan and stir in mushroom mixture, vinegar, and salt and pepper to taste. Heat sauce over moderate heat until heated through and stir in parsley.
• Arrange shanks on couscous and spoon sauce over them.