Osso Bucco - Ingredients
Olive Oil - butter
4 Garlic Cloves
12 pieces of Osso Bucco (I used 4 very large)
Plain flour
Salt and Freshly ground pepper
3 sticks diced celery
2 diced carrots
2 large chopped onions
1 can diced tomatoes
2 cups dry white wine
1 1/2-2 cups chicken stock
pinch of allspice
pinch of ground cinnamon
2 bay leaves
2 tsp fresh thyme
Parsley for garnish

The recipe said to serve on a bed of Risotto but I like one pot cooking and simply floated large chunks of pumpkin and whole baby potatoes on top from the start and a few beans at the end.  Most wouldnt need the details but I hope they will help any really raw beginner cooks.  I used my 12" Bedouri CO.

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Very tasty looking feed Carolyn, I've never eaten Osso Bucco but I reckon I'd really like that. As usual very well laid out & explained. Top shelf Carolyn

Regards Skip

Thanks Skip I think for people who really like it part of the joy is sucking out the marrow in the bone  ;).   I forgot about that at the time  :D.  I had been looking at them in a butchers window for some months, usually I think they are smaller and these I feel were beef.  In spite of all the herbs etc it was a bit bland, on reading the recipe for the risotto that should have gone with it I shouldn't have taken the short cut but the potatoes picked up the wine and stock flavours and were scrumpious.

Well Carolyn, I figured out that you were talking about meat, but I couldn't figure out what animal.  Now, gather osso bucco is cut of meat and can be from several animals.

Do enlighten me.

:-/

LK this is what my google tells me:

Osso Buco is an Italian dish that means bone with a hole in it.

At the back of my mind I always thought it was ox tails and when I saw the large meaty spine looking pieces of beef I thought one day I would buy some.     It would appear any boney meat qualifies for the name.  

Ah,  that's a reflection of the strong European influence in your area.  

I shall have to get out a copy of The Joy of Cooking and look at the diagrams for various cuts of  beef, mutton, pork, etc.

:-/

I always thought it was veal.

Actually most butchers sell gravy beef or shin beef here now which is Osso Bucco without the bone.

LK - My area is not a strong European one - in fact possibly in all of Sydney it is one of the most what we call Anglo (Anglo-Saxon) areas with most having a British heredity.  I personally have 1/4 european mixed with the 3/4 anglo but am very much a minority.

I have been using shin beef for curries and stews for ages , i find the meat is more tender and the flavour is nice , and the cost of the meat is cheaper. I cut the meat away from the bone before putting in the c/o , but do put some of the bones in also as it give a nice flavour from the marrow. when i do a lamb curry i like to use neck chops , same again ,  meat turns out very tender , don't need to do much chewing.
Next time you make a curry try one of these two , and see what you reckon.
Rossco

My recipe book says Osso Bucco is veal shanks and the big deal is the marrow which you suck out of the bone. I tried them a few months ago and in spite of plenty of herbs I also thought they were pretty bland. Today in the butchers shop I noticed them labeled as "Beef Osso Bucco", so what's right ?


pd

I got my huge ones at Miranda Fair PD they had a couple of varieties and I got the "beef" ones.  When I googled is said "bone with a hole in it" and some recipes called the same use shanks.  I guess nothing is "right" just depends on what you want to call it.

The best soup I ever had was Borsch made by a Russian workmate who used gravy beef cooked slowly for hours as the base for the stock.  Until she told me about it we had only ever fed the dogs with it (I am going back a long way :) ).   These days with the cost of meat I guess we will all eventually be eating skin bone the lot LOL well thats unless like some around here you access to CRABS  YUMMMY.

As an old butcher in a former life I can tell you that "Osso Buco" actually means hollow bones. Traditional osso buco is made from veal shanks cross cut to expose the marrow.
The marrow is meant to be sucked out of the bones once cooked.
Because the meat industry has discovered that it is not economically viable to kill calves these days because of the amount of bone in the carcass compared to yearling or older beef, osso buco is now marketed as beef shins cut on the cross. A veal carcass has a large amount of bone and less meat compared to full grown beast. That's why you will see much less veal being sold these days.

Terribly, terribly hard to get veal osso bucco these days as Loose said.  I've seen them once in the past 12 months.  And remember when ox tail used to be very reasonably priced?  I think it must be gold plated or something these days.  Belly pork is another.

Cheers

Seamus  8-) 8-)