Description
Once you learn to properly cook oxtail, you’ll be hooked on Caribbean-influenced dish.
Ingredients
Scale
For the rub:
- 2–3 green onions, chopped
- 2–3 cloves of garlic, chopped
- 1–2 tbsp jerk seasoning
- 2 tsp dried thyme
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground allspice
- 2 tsp ground coriander 1-2 tbsp olive oil (enough to form a rough paste)
For the slow cooked oxtail:
- 5 lb of oxtails
- Olive oil
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1–2 cloves of garlic, chopped
- 1 tbsp jerk seasoning
- 1 tsp dried rosemary
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- 1 tsp ground coriander
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tbsp tomato paste
- ¼ cup Worcestershire sauce
- 4 cups chicken stock
- 2 tsp beef base (highly concentrated beef stock)
- 1–2 cinnamon sticks
Instructions
- To make the rub, mix the ingredients with the olive oil to create a paste. Rub over oxtails, cover, and refrigerate overnight.
- To cook the oxtails the next day, heat a teaspoon or so of oil in a roasting pan or Dutch oven–enough to keep the oxtails from sticking. Sauté the onions and garlic for a few minutes. Add the spices and cook them for a few minutes so that you can smell their aroma. Stir the tomato paste into the mixture, add the Worcestershire sauce, chicken stock, and beef base.
- Add the oxtails, cover, and roast for 30 minutes at 400 degrees. Lower the temperature to 350 degrees and slow roast for 2 ½ -3 hours. The meat should fall off the bone.