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Oxtail Stoup 5
#16376460 - 06/13/12 02:39 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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To borrow a phrase from Rachel Ray - "stoup" - here be what happened when I happened upon some fine looking oxtail at the local market... and cherry picked ideas from various stew & soup recipes, ultimately settling somewhere inbetween after a sixteen hour marathon crock pot session!

(don't mind the aphids on the oregano, it was picked from my yard and did get cleaned)
Ingredients:- 2 lbs oxtail
- Small bunch of fresh carrots
- 3 large celery stalks
- 1 medium/large onion
- 2 small sweet potatoes
- 1 medium yam
- Bunch of leeks
- 1 - 2 Jalapeno Peppers
- 1 can diced tomatoes
- 5 large cloves of garlic
- Red Wine
- Barley
- Corn
- Sage, Rosemary, Oregano, Bay, Salt & Pepper
- Additional stock and/or water
Don't fret if you don't have all this stuff. The beauty of a crock pot meal is that you can pretty much throw whatever you got in there and it'll probably come out at last half way decent! As a simplified version, I would suggest using the oxtail, onion, celery, carrots, some sort of potato, garlic, wine and misc spices. The variety of potatoes, leeks, jalapenos, corn, barley and tomato are great, but you can still make delicious soupy goodness without 'em.
To begin, we lightly flour and spice our oxtail, then brown the sides in a hot oiled pan in order to create added depth of flavor in the final stoup.

Once the meat is nice and brown, remove it from the pan and begin sweating your onions, celery, jalapenos and garlic. When these are ready, throw your fresh chopped spices in there (I used ~2 tbsp chopped fresh sage/rosemary/oregano). Then add some wine to scrape up any goodies that got stuck to the bottom of the pan.

Dump the meat and your sauteed veggies/wine gravy into the crock pot on top of your leeks and potatoes.

Add some diced tomatoes.

Add 1/4 - 1/2 cup barley and a few bay leaves. You also want to add 1 - 2 cups of red wine at this point, and water or stock so that all the ingredients are just barely covered in liquid. Add a pinch of salt for good measure, set your crock pot to low and let 'er rip for a minimum of 8 hours, and from there the sky is the limit!

When you've had enough of the waiting game, skim the heavy fat layer off the top of the stoup. If you catch some soup here, no big deal, just place what you skim into a relatively narrow/tall container and let cool in the fridge, then you can easily peel the hardened fat off the top and throw the remaining good stuff back into the crock pot.

The meat should be falling off the bones and the sauce should have a respectable level of heat. Note that if you don't like it spicy, just ditch the jalapenos and throw a few peppercorns in instead.

Serve over rice, with some crusty bread or risotto, or just eat it straight up all soup like. If you haven't experienced oxtail for yourself, you'll be in for a treat, as these globules of meat chunk off the tail bone with just the right amount of deliciously moist and tender gelatinous matter that will melt in your mouth.
Decadent. 
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Re: Oxtail Stoup [Re: geokills] 1
#16377213 - 06/13/12 05:44 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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BRAVO! 
You cant get a sheen on vegetables like that without some good slow cooked fat layerd over them..
Damn that looks good.
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Re: Oxtail Stoup [Re: geokills] 1
#16377275 - 06/13/12 06:00 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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i can come over for stoups?
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Re: Oxtail Stoup [Re: geokills] 1
#16377776 - 06/13/12 08:09 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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God damn I want that right now
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Yum. Oxtail is one of the great soup bases far too often ignored in the modern world. I haven't seen one like that since my Gran died. Thanks for reminding me. Lamb shanks are another one btw which are cheap and make a delicious soup.
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Re: Oxtail Stoup [Re: geokills] 1
#16392041 - 06/16/12 09:18 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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This was a quite tasty stoup. I had the privilege of enjoying a bowl the other night, and afterwards my mouth tasted like delicious fat.
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Re: Oxtail Stoup [Re: Kremlin] 1
#16392226 - 06/16/12 10:05 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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gloat about it some more why don't ya?
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It was so good that I actually SHIVERED when I ate it.
Then I curled up in a ball and held myself on the ground. And dreamt about it.
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-------------------- -- Accept my heart warming gift of TREE SCRATCHIES!!! I absolve thee!! --
JaP: 30,000 lines of gay, cock, and fag can't be wrong Ped: only in #shroomery is "smuggle opium in her ass" followed by "i don't want shitty opium" which is followed by " *** Joins: PENISSQUAD" -- JaP: What would this place be without random sluts? JaP: Nothing, I tell you.
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Whoa... that looks like some bone-suckin-goodness right there... and who doesn't like to suck on a nice bone once in a while?
Edited by ch1ck3n.s0up (01/07/14 12:39 AM)
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