15 Beef shank Recipes From 14 Cuisines.

The leg muscle, laced with sinew and wrapped around a marrow bone. Nothing else gives a broth so much body for so little money, which is why it anchors Vietnamese pho, Chinese red-braised beef and Italian osso buco. Cross-cut rounds keep the marrow in place; boneless shin is easier to dice. It needs a genuinely long, gentle simmer, because the connective tissue that makes it valuable is also what makes it inedible when undercooked.

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