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\ud83c\udf7d\ufe0f The dish I make when people are coming over<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I start this one in the morning and then I forget about it. The oven does the work for three and a half hours, the house smells incredible all day, and when everybody shows up at six there is nothing left to do. No pot boiling over, no last-minute panic. Just pork shanks falling apart at the touch of a fork and a kitchen that is already clean. That is the real strength of a braised pork shank osso buco: all the work happens hours before anyone knocks on the door.<\/p>\n

I already have a tomato version, my pork osso buco with port and tomatoes<\/a>, and I love it. This one plays a different game entirely. Apple white ale, apples melting into the braise, that faint sweetness chasing the pork, and then the gremolata cutting straight through it. Honestly? This is my favourite of the two, and one of the best things I have ever done with a pork shank.<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udf4f Apples twice, two textures<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Five Cortland apples go into the pot right at the start. Three and a half hours later they are gone. They melted into the liquid, and they are what gives the braising juice that round, almost sweet edge that sets this apart from an ordinary braise.<\/p>\n

The other two stay raw, cut into tiny dice, and they go into the gremolata. Classic gremolata is parsley, garlic and citrus zest. That is it. Everybody makes it the same way. I swap the citrus flesh for raw apple and keep the lemon zest. It crunches, it is cold, it is tart, and it lands on meat that just spent the afternoon in the oven. That contrast is half the dish.<\/p>\n

\ud83e\uddb4 So what exactly is a pork shank?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

It is the lower part of the leg, right above the trotter. Cut into thick slices across the bone, you get rounds with a hole in the middle: the hollow bone, full of marrow. Osso buco is Italian for exactly that, bone with a hole. The classic version uses veal. With pork it costs a fraction of the price and the flavour is more direct.<\/p>\n

This is a muscle that works, so it is loaded with collagen. Cooked hot and fast it would be inedible. Braised covered for three and a half hours, that collagen turns to gelatin, the meat falls apart on its own, and the juice takes on a silky texture nothing else gives you. There is no shortcut here. It is just time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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