Portobello Osso Buco 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.

PORTOBELLO OSSO BUCO

Steps:

• 1. Chop the rosemary, thyme, onion, carrots, celery, and garlic (unless using a garlic press). 2. In a large Dutch oven or other deep pot, heat the olive oil over medium heat. 3. When heated add the first seven ingredients and saute until vegetables are beginning to soften and onions are transparent, about 10 minutes. Stir occasionally to keep garlic and herbs from sticking to the bottom of the pan. 4. Add the tomato paste and wine to the same pot and combine well. Simmer until wine is reduced to about 1/2 a cup, about 5 minutes. 5. Add the vegetable broth. Place the mushrooms cap down in the liquid and spoon liquid over the underside of the mushrooms. The broth should come 3/4 up the sides of the mushrooms. 6. Bring to a simmer, lower heat and cover pan. Check occasionally to make sure liquid isn't boiling. 7. After 1/2 an hour, remove mushrooms to plate, they will have shrunken to about 1/2 their original size. 8. Simmer remaining liquid uncovered for another 1/2 an hour. 9. Turn heat off, remove bay leaves and use an immersion blender to puree sauce. Once the sauce is thickened to your liking add the mushrooms back in and simmer to reheat. 10. Taste and add salt and pepper if needed. 11. Slice the mushrooms if wanted, place on serving platter and pour the thickened sauce over the top. 12. Serve with whole wheat pasta, brown rice, or other whole grain such as this Herbed Polenta.

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.

SLOW COOKER OSSO BUCO

Steps:

• Season the flour with salt and pepper to taste. Toss the veal shank slices with the flour until evenly coated. Melt the butter and olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook the shank slices in the hot butter until golden brown on all sides, about 10 minutes per side.
• Combine the onions, carrots, celery, and garlic in a large slow cooker. Set the meat slices atop the vegetables, then pour in the chicken stock and diced tomatoes. Season with oregano and the bay leaf.
• Cook on Low for 8 hours until the meat is falling off of the bone. Season to taste with salt and pepper before serving.

EASY OSSO BUCO

Steps:

• Heat oil in heavy extra-large deep skillet or flameproof casserole over medium-high heat. Dredge shanks in flour; shake off excess. Add to skillet and cook until brown, turning occasionally, about 12 minutes. Transfer shanks to bowl.
• Reduce heat to medium-low. Add onion and garlic and sauté until tender, about 4 minutes. Return shanks and any liquid in bowl to skillet. Season shanks with salt and pepper. Add tomatoes, broth, wine, basil and lemon peel to skillet. Cover partially and simmer until veal is very tender and begins to fall off bones, about 2 hours. (Can be prepared 3 days ahead. Cover and refrigerate. Simmer 10 minutes over medium heat before continuing.) Ladle into bowls and serve with Gremolata.
• To make Gremolata:
• Combine all ingredients in small bowl.

CHICKEN, PORTOBELLO AND SAUSAGE OSSO BUCO

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Season chicken with salt and pepper. heat the olive oil in a 5 quart casserole (with top) over medium heat. Add chicken and brown on both sides. Remove and set aside. Add mushrooms and cook, stirring about 5 minutes, until the mushrooms start to wilt and no longer look dry. Remove and set aside.
• Reduce heat to low and saute' shallots and garlic until just starting to brown. brown sausage. Deglaze with wine and stock. Season generously with pepper. Stir in vinegar. return chicken, sausage and mushrooms to casserole; add thyme, cover and cook for 1-1/2 hours, uncovering for the last half hour, and basting chicken a few times.
• Meanwhile, in a small bowl, blend the softened butter and flour. Place the casserole over a medium high burner, uncover and add the butter/flour mixture, stirring with a whisk, thickening the sauce for 3-5 minutes. transfer to a warm platter, serving the sauce on the side if you wish. Garnish with thyme sprigs.

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.