Ossobuco with cinnamon & soy recipe - Recipes - BBC Good Food

Fry the ossobuco on each side in the oil until browned. Fry the onions, ginger, garlic, five-spice, star anise, cinnamon stick and chilli flakes in the same pan then tip this into a large shallow casserole. Sit the ossobuco on top. Mix the sugar with the soy sauce, tomato purée and beef stock and pour this over. Bring to the boil, cover and simmer for two hours or until the ossobuco is tender. Take the lid off and simmer for a few minutes if the sauce is too thin. Serve with rice and Asian greens.

OSSOBUCO The name means bone with a hole, and what you get is slices of veal knuckle (veal shin) with the bone marrow intact. This gives any recipe you cook with ossobuco an unbelievably rich flavour and a glossy sauce. Generally, when a recipe calls for ossobuco, it comes from veal with the most common recipe being Italian, where it is simmered in a tomato sauce and sprinkled with gremolata.