Lamb Shanks With Caramelized Onions and Tanzeya – Grow & Behold Kitchen

Ingredients

• 6 lamb shanks , about 1 pound each
• Coarse kosher or sea salt
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 4 large onions, halved root to stem and thinly sliced
• Pinch of saffron threads
• 1 cup Moroccan Jewish tanzeya (recipe follows)
• 1 cup blanched whole almonds, toasted
• 1 cup prunes
• 1 cup dried apricots
• 1 cup quartered dried figs
• 1 cup raisins
• 200 grams sugar (about 1 cup)
• 1 stick cinnamon
• 1 whole cardamom pod
• 1 whole allspice berry
• Pinch of dried chile flakes
• Pinch of salt