Ox Tails
- 3 pounds ox tails with separated joints
- 1 x salt and black pepper to taste
- 1 x olive oil
- 1 medium yellow onion chopped
- 1 each celery chopped
- 1 large carrots chopped
- 2 cups stock chicken or beef
- 2 cups red wine
- 3 cloves garlic peel still on
- 1 each bay leaves
- 1 pinch thyme
- 1 x parsley leaves
- 2 each carrots cut into 1-inch segments, large pieces also cut lengthwise
- 2 each parsnips cut into 1-inch segments, large pieces also cut lengthwise
- 2 each turnip cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1 x olive oil
- 1 x salt and black pepper
- 1 Preheat oven to 350F (180C).
- Pat dry oxtails with paper towels.
- Sprinkle oxtails all over with salt and pepper.
- Heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil on medium to medium high heat in a 6-quart Dutch oven.
- Working in batches, and not crowding the pan, sear the oxtails in hot pan on all sides until golden brown.
- Use tongs to remove oxtails to a plate, setting aside.
- 2 Add the chopped onion, carrot, and celery to the pan.
- Cook for a few minutes until onions are translucent.
- Add the oxtails back to the pan.
- Add the whole garlic cloves, the stock and wine.
- Add bay leaf, thyme, and half a teaspoon of salt.
- Bring to simmer.
- Reduce heat to low.
- Cover and cook for 3 hours, until meat is fork tender.
- 3 One hour before the meat is done, heat oven on 350F.
- Toss carrots, parsnips, and turnips in olive oil in a roasting pan.
- Sprinkle well with salt and pepper.
- Roast vegetables for 1 hour, or until lightly browned and cooked through.
- 4 When meat is tender, remove oxtails from the cooking liquid.
- Either skim the fat off the top with a spoon, use a fat separator to remove the fat, or chill the cooking liquid for several hours so that the fat solidifies, making it easier to remove.
- 5 Pour the cooking liquid through a mesh strainer into a bowl, using a rubber spatula to press against the vegetable solids caught in the strainer.
- Discard the solids.
- Return the liquid to the pan and simmer until reduced by half.
- Then add back in the oxtails, and add the roasted vegetables to the pan.
- Heat on low heat for half an hour for the flavors to meld.
- Add some chopped parsley before serving.
- Serves 4-6.
joints, salt, olive oil, onion, celery, carrots, chicken, red wine, garlic, bay leaves, thyme, parsley, carrots, also, olive oil, salt
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/ox-tails-53437 (may not work)