Braised Brown Sugar Oxtails with Star Anise and seasonal greens
Slow Cooked Beef Oxtail Recipe
6 - 8
Serves
30 mins
Prep Time
3 hrs
Cook Time
Recipe author
Andrew Clarke
This braised oxtail recipe is classic comfort food at its finest. It's one of those meals that requires very little preparation and cooks slowly until the meat is meltingly tender after a couple of hours. Oxtail makes for an excellent family dinner or a hearty mid-winter lunch and also freezes well. A word of warning - it is a little messy to eat so you might need a finger bowl!
Recipe courtesy of Greenlea Butcher Shop.
This braised oxtail recipe is classic comfort food at its finest. It's one of those meals that requires very little preparation and cooks slowly until the meat is meltingly tender after a couple of hours. Oxtail makes for an excellent family dinner or a hearty wid-winter lunch and also freezes well. A word of warning - it is a little messy to eat so you might need a finger bowl! Recipe courtesy of Greenlea Butcher Shop.
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High Protein
High Iron
Ingredients
For the Oxtail
1kg Quality Mark oxtail
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2L beef stock
1 onion
1 celery stalk
½ leek
1 carrot
4 garlic cloves
chopped
2 bay leaves
3 star-anise
3 Tbsp brown sugar
salt and pepper
For the potato mash
1kg Agria potatoes
peeled
100ml milk
250g butter
white pepper
salt
Seasonal vegetables
500g baby carrots
500g asparagus spears
3 Tbsp olive oil
40g butter
Method
For the Oxtail
For the mash
For the vegetables
1
Preheat oven to 160˚C.
2
Trim the oxtail, removing any excess fat or sinew from the outside. You don’t need to be too fussy with this as it will all break down during cooking.
3
Season the oxtail heavily with salt and black pepper.
4
In a large pan, fry the oxtail in a little oil until golden on all sides.
5
Place the oxtail in a casserole dish or deep pan.
6
Discard the excess fat from the pan but don’t clean it.
7
Roughly chop the onion, celery, leek and carrot, adding it to the pan used for browning the oxtail.
8
Add in the star anise, bay leaves and garlic, and return to heat.
9
Once the vegetables have some colour, add in 500ml of the beef stock and the brown sugar to de-glaze the pan. Pour this over the oxtail along with the remaining stock
10
Cover and place in oven for around 3 hours or until meat is falling off the bone.
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Nutrition Information per Serving (749g)
Percentage daily intakes are based on an average adult diet of 8700 kJ (2100 kilocalories).
More infoEnergy
2703 kJ (646 kcal)
Protein
33.7g
Total Fat
40.6g
Saturated Fat
22.0g
Carbs
33.8g
Sugars
13.4g
Sodium
994mg
Iron*
4.5mg
* Percentage of recommended daily intake (Aust/NZ)
