How much to cook oxtail soup?
The whole process of cooking the soup takes 3 hours.
How to make oxtail soup
Products
Fresh oxtail - 800 grams
Carrots - 1 piece
Celery - 1/2 medium tuber
Beets - 1 piece
Onions - 3 pieces
Chives - 5 feathers
Garlic - 1 whole head
Ketchup - 150 grams
Still mineral water - 1.5 liters
Rosemary - 1 sprig
Dry marjoram - 1 tablespoon
Black peppercorns - 10 peas
Ground black pepper - to taste
Bay leaf - 2 leaves
Olive oil - 50 grams
Soy sauce - 2 tablespoons
How to make oxtail soup
1. Wash tail and cut into pieces.
2. Heat a saucepan, add oil and fry the meat until brown.
3. Wash, peel, chop onions, carrots, a quarter of beets into small cubes and add to a saucepan.
4. Wash and coarsely chop fresh celery and add to a saucepan.
5. Add all the listed spices.
6. Wash and chop the chives and put into a dish.
7. Simmer all ingredients until soft.
8. Boil 1.5 liters of mineral water.
9. Pour the prepared dish with the resulting boiling water.
10. Add 100 g of good ketchup.
11. Dip 6 cloves of garlic in boiling water.
12. Close the lid, adjust the heat to low and leave the dish for 2 hours.
Fusofacts
- For soup, you can use the tails along with the cartilage, or first separate the cartilage from the meat.- In the recipe, instead of 100 grams of ketchup, you can use 50 grams of tomato paste.
- The weight of one tail is 700-800 grams.
- Oxtail soup is recommended to be infused for at least 12 hours (and preferably 24 hours) so that it acquires a rich taste. This is the so-called second day soup.
- It is best to cook oxtail soup in a cast iron pot, the soup is best infused in this dish.
Three ways to make oxtail soup
- Oxtail soup in Spanish... The main difference between this method is that the meat is first boiled in water for 2-2.5 hours, and then removed, and the dish is further cooked like a regular soup. Potatoes are placed in the dish.The meat is separated from the bones and added to the soup only 10 minutes before being cooked.
- Oxtail soup in German... The German recipe uses wine. The tails are fried with carrots, onions and parsley, and then boiled for 3 hours. After that, take out all the ingredients from the soup and conjure over the broth: degrease, clarify, strain, add boiled wine, starch and spices. Then all ingredients (including boneless meat) are returned to the soup. Tomato paste and beetroot are not used.
- Oxtail Soup in English... In the English recipe, potatoes are added to the soup. In this case, the roots and meat are first fried for half an hour, and then boiled for half an hour. Then potatoes are added to the dish, and it is boiled for exactly as long as potatoes are boiled - 15-20 minutes.
- The price of oxtails is 170 rubles / 1 kilogram (on average in Moscow for July 2019).
Last update Author / Editor - Lydia Ivanova