Slow Cooked Osso Bucco

Winter is the perfect time for slow cooking.  One of my favourites is slow cooked osso bucco.  The large bones are filled with marrow and melt into the sauce of the stew forming a calcium enriched meal.  Because the bones and meat are slow cooked for 8 hours all the nutrients are absorbed through and into the broth which in itself has been brewed for 12 hours.  

Ingredients:

• 3 beef osso buuco Depending on how many you are serving, 1 is enough for 2 people)

• 1 onion

• 1 clove of garlic

• 4 cups bone broth recipe here

• 2 carrots

• 3 potatoes

• 3 zucchinis

• 3 stalks celery

• 1 bay leaf

• 3 cardomon pods

• 1 sprig of fresh thyme

• 4 tomotoes

• 1/4 teaspoon of celtic sea salt

Method:

1.  Braise the osso bucco in a fry pan un til brown.  Then place in the slow cooker.

2.  Lightly fry the onion and garlic.  Place on top of the osso bucco.

3.  Chop the celery and thyme and add.

4.  Add the bay leaf, salt and cardomon pods. 

5. Pour the bone broth over the osso bucco.

6.  Turn the slow cooker on low and cook for 3 hours.

7.  After three hours add the chopped potatoes, carrots, zucchini and tomatoes. 

7.  Slow cook for another 3 hours.

8.  Serve.