Slow Cooked Lamb Shanks in Red Wine Sauce

Name: Lamb Shanks in Red Wine Sauce
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 3 h 30 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 4 Lamb shanks; 2 Bay leaves, dried; 1 cup Carrot; 1 cup Celery; 3 Garlic cloves; 1 Mashed potato; 1 Onion, yellow or white brown; 5 sprigs Thyme; 1 Thyme, Fresh leaves; 800 g Tomatoes; 2 cups Chicken stock; 2 tbsp Tomato paste; 1 tsp Cooking/kosher salt and pepper; 2 tbsp Olive oil; 2 1/2 cups Red wine