Lamb shank Pie

Ingredients

Lamb shank sauce
Lamb shanks; this time i purchased lamb shank meat without the bone
1 brown onion, finely chopped 
2-3 bay leaves
1 cinnamon stick 
Salt / pepper  (to taste)
500ml beef stock
1 bottle of tomato cooking sauce; Passata 700g
1 can crushed tomatoes

Vegetables
10 Mushrooms, cut in fours  
Broccoli
2 Carrots, chopped
2 Zucchinis, chopped 
4 white potatoes (pie topping)

In a large pot, add enough olive oil to cover pot base
Allow oil to heat, add chopped onion and saute until golden brown
Add lamb shanks and seal on both sides

Add bottled tomato sauce, beef stock can of crushed tomatoes
Add all spices
Simmer sauce on low heat for 90 minutes (allow to reduce). 
The longer you allow the sauce to cook the better the flavour. 
A nice orange colour sauce is a good indicator. 

Last step is to add all the chopped vegetables and cook until slightly crunchy. 

* You don't want to overcook broccoli and carrots

In a seperate pot, boil potatoes on stovetop
Once cooked, drain and rinse potatoes and return to pot
Add 1 tbs of butter and mash potatoes

Putting it all together
In a ramekin add lamb shank sauce (to fill 3/4 of ramekin)
Top with potatoes mash to fill ramekins

Place in oven grill until the mash turns golden brown

Enjoy!