Oxtail takes looong to make, so do this when you’ve got time to drink wine and chill at home with friends and family.
Ingredients
4kg oxtail
4 onions – chopped
8 carrots – chopped
cake flour
salt and pepper
olive oil
good quality organic beef stock
a fine red wine
Maizena – about ¼ cup diluted
about 6 cloves of garlic – chopped
tomato paste
Method
First up, season the oxtail by rolling it around in cake flour, salt and pepper. Then heat up a non-stick pan, add a splash of olive oil and sear the oxtail on both sides. You’ll probably have to do this in batches.
Take a roasting pan (the biggest one you have) and stack in the seared oxtail pieces. Once done, take the same frying pan, add more olive oil, and then toss in the chopped onions, carrots and garlic. Once the onions become translucent, whack it all on top of the oxtail.
The last thing you need to do is make the stock (probably about 2 cups) add to it one tin of tomato paste and the Maizena, mix and pour it onto the oxtail. Finish off with a generous lashing of red wine. You want the oxtail to be just submerged in the stock and wine but not drowning.
Cover the whole lot with tin foil and whack it into the oven at 150ºC and slow cook in the oven for about 4 and a half hours.
Oxtail is great with good old samp and beans, but if you can’t be bothered, just make some rice.