Shanks

[Caseknife]

Deer shanks, elk shanks, all with bone in make excellent winter meals.  Nothing like smelling them cook all afternoon while watching football

[huntnnw]

I do 7-8 hours in crockpot, shred them then pan fry with onion, peppers, jalapeños with a good street taco sauce then make tacos or nachos

[pianoman9701]

I’m going to try and Sous Vide mine this year for 10-12 hours and make a stew.

  This is how I do lamb shanks. 2C Beef broth, 1C red wine, 2oz EVOO, aromatic veggies, garlic cloves, and mushrooms sliced. 165F for 12 hours. Reduce the liquids and veggies, salt and pepper to taste after reducing (if you salt before, when the liquids reduce it'll be too salty). They fall off the bone. Serve on rice or riced cauliflower (Keto) and pour the liquids and veggies over the top. If the liquid isn't thickening fast enough for you, use a little psyllium husk to help it along - a little goes a long way. Corn starch, if not.

[ne kid]

I do lamb shanks twice a month with a very similar recipe. The shanks are my most treasured cut from the lambs I raise.

[PKC]

Do you guys who cut your own shanks have bandsaws?  or use sawzalls or what?

[Stein]

I either cook them without the bone or if you want some osso buco, I just use my regular packable bone saw.  It's kind of a pain, but something I only do maybe once a year.  Usually, I just go boneless as deer and antelope are kind of small for osso buco.

Any normal hand butcher saw would work, the kind that look like a hack saw but have a food grade blade.

[WSU]

I have used a butcher saw and also a sawzall with a new blade.   Both work and I always wash them after cutting to remove the bone dust.

[ne kid]

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/36927/rosemary-braised-lamb-shanks/ This is the recipe I use and am really happy with it. I like to leave some of my shanks whole, but I will second the sawzall with the stainless meat blade

[jrebel]

WOW!!!!!  Just cooked my first bear shanks and OHHHHHHH MY GOOOOOODNESSS......so delicious!!  Really simple cook....Sear in a cast iron pan, move to slow cooker for 6 hours.  Beef stock, onions, garlic, potatoes, carrots.....it was really good. 

One of the best things about this site over the years is the recipe thread.  Preparation, and recipes  have really broadened my horizon.  Canned meat to now shank....I've really grown as a cook, hunter and best of all user of all parts. 

 

[Angry Perch]

WOW!!!!!  Just cooked my first bear shanks and OHHHHHHH MY GOOOOOODNESSS......so delicious!!  Really simple cook....Sear in a cast iron pan, move to slow cooker for 6 hours.  Beef stock, onions, garlic, potatoes, carrots.....it was really good. 

One of the best things about this site over the years is the recipe thread.  Preparation, and recipes  have really broadened my horizon.  Canned meat to now shank....I've really grown as a cook, hunter and best of all user of all parts. 

 

I feel the same. Have tried a lot of new things. Shanks are the bomb, for sure. Crazy how often the best pieces are the ones that often end up in the gut pile or the trash.

[Twispriver]

I first got interested in cooking shanks (instead of grinding) after watching an episode of Meateater. In the show they had gotten an elk and put a whole boneless shank in a crock pot with some diced vegetables and stock and went out hunting for the day. When they returned the meat was fork tender and, according to them, delicious. So I tried it with a couple deer shanks and I was hooked. For me a quick sear is part of the deal and then either slow cook for hours or canning it in a pressure cooker make shanks a favorite cut of any game animal.

[Angry Perch]

The worst bite of a shank is like the best bite of a pot roast. Tender, sticky, and perfect.

[deerhuntr4885]

Anybody ever use an Instapot?  Any idea how long to cook it in one?

[pianoman9701]

Anybody ever use an Instapot?  Any idea how long to cook it in one?

It's a pressure cooker. Probably no more than an hour.

[Special T]

I first got interested in cooking shanks (instead of grinding) after watching an episode of Meateater. In the show they had gotten an elk and put a whole boneless shank in a crock pot with some diced vegetables and stock and went out hunting for the day. When they returned the meat was fork tender and, according to them, delicious. So I tried it with a couple deer shanks and I was hooked. For me a quick sear is part of the deal and then either slow cook for hours or canning it in a pressure cooker make shanks a favorite cut of any game animal.

This is pretty much how ive done my deer shanks. I fire up the wood stove put my spacer bricks on the stove ( creat an air gap to keep the temp low) and then walk away. I cooked mine low and slow for 6-7 hours and i love deer shanks as well.

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