Ox tail, any body know a good recipe for this using a slow cooker ?!
Ox tail, any body know a good recipe for this using a slow cooker ?
Answers:
Chop Ox-tail into bite size pieces - place in bowl and pour over Balsamic vinegar and Worcester sauce to make marinade. Leave to stand for about 1 Hr. In meantime peel and chop an onion and several cloves of garlic. Strain off Ox-tail from marinade (save Marinade to make gravy with). toss Ox-tail in Tbls plain flour. Heat oil on large frying pan - fry onion and garlic until sweated down and beginning to turn brown. In meantime add 2 Tsps Bisto powder and Oxo cube and stir well to marinade and make gravy with it. Add Ox-tail into frying pan and flash fry for 3 - 4 minutes until meat is cooked through. Pour Marinade/gravy over ox-tail, onion and garlic in frying pan. Add whatever other vegetables (previously peeled and chopped) you choose into frying pan and bring to boil. When gravy begins to thicken - pour whole contents of frying pan into slow cooker and cook through for 3 - 4 hours
Bon Appetite!!!
You are better off with a pressure cooker
ok after doing a head or tails (tails winning) the conclusion is try the internet - type it into a search engine and you will get what you need
http://www.recipezaar.com/94718... (traditional)
http://southernfood.about.com/od/crockpo... (more of a Spanish flavor)
Season the oxtails liberally with seasoning salt. If you don't have this, use salt, pepper, garlic and onion powder. Let this marinate for a few hours to overnight. Let them brown in a frying pan and then put them in the slow cooker. Add 2 sliced onions on top, 3 cloves of diced garlic and 1 can of diced tomatoes. You will want to season this mixture again with seasoning salt. Let it cook on low for about 8 hours.
Here is a recipe for you:
Spanish Style Braised Oxtails
INGREDIENTS:
3 to 4 lbs oxtails, disjointed
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 onions, chopped
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 tablespoon flour
1 1/2 cups beef stock
3/4 cup dry red wine
1/2 cup tomato sauce
6 peppercorns
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1 dried red chile pepper, seeded, chopped
2 whole cloves
2 carrots, chopped
1 red bell pepper, chopped
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
2 potatoes, cut in chunks
salt and pepper, to taste
PREPARATION:
Brown oxtails on all sides in oil in skillet. Add onions and garlic and cook 5 minutes. Sprinkle flour over the meat, blend well and cook 2 minutes longer. Put potatoes in bottom of crockpot, along with carrots.
Add oxtails and remaining ingrecients. cover and cook on low 8 to 10 hours.
Hope I helped some, Enjoy!!
We always make vegtable soup out of oxtail. It could work the same in a slow cooker.