Oxtails in Red Wine Sauce
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 4 1/2 pounds oxtails
- 4 each celery stalks chopped
- 2 each carrots chopped
- 2 each leeks chopped
- 1 each onions chopped
- 6 each garlic cloves chopped
- 3 cups red wine
- 12 each thyme sprigs
- 8 each cloves whole
- 4 each bay leaves
- 5 cups chicken broth
- 2 tablespoons flour, all-purpose
- Heat oil in heavy large Dutch oven over high heat.
- Season oxtails with salt and pepper.
- Add to Dutch oven and cook until brown on all sides, about 12 minutes.
- Transfer oxtails to platter.
- Add celery, carrots, leeks, onion and garlic to pot and saut?
- until golden brown, about 8 minutes.
- Arrange oxtails over vegetables.
- Add wine, thyme, parsley, cloves and bay leaves.
- Boil until liquid is reduced by half, about 15 minutes.
- Add stock.
- Bring to boil.
- Reduce heat.
- Cover Dutch oven tightly and simmer until meat is very tender, about 1 1/2 hours.
- Remove oxtails from cooking liquid.
- Tent with foil to keep warm.
- Strain cooking liquid.
- Skim fat from surface and reserve.
- Transfer 2 tablespoons skimmed fat to heavy medium saucepan over medium heat.
- Add flour and stir until mixture browns, about 10 minutes.
- Whisk in cooking liquid.
- Simmer until sauce thickens enough to coat back of spoon and is reduced to 2 cups, stirring frequently, about 45 minutes.
- Season to taste with salt and pepper.
vegetable oil, oxtails, celery stalks chopped, carrots, leeks, onions, garlic, red wine, thyme, bay leaves, chicken broth, flour
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/oxtails-red-wine-sauce-42507 (may not work)