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Slow-cooked Scotch Beef Oxtail

  • Prep 30 mins
  • Cook mix
  • Serves 6

Ingredients

Cooking Method

  • 1
    In a large, non-stick pan fry the oxtail chunks all over to brown them, adding a light sprinkling of salt as the fat runs. Turn often with tongs and remove to a plate lined with kitchen paper to absorb the fat. Blot up the fat from the pan but leave the sticky brown bits, add the beef stock, wine or vinegar and the tomato purée and bring to the boil, season to taste.
  • 2
    Sprinkle the browned oxtail with the seasoned flour and place it in the slow cooker along with the onion, celery, carrots and beetroot. Wedge in the bay leaf and thyme and pour over the stock mixture, making sure the ingredients are largely submerged in it.
  • 3
    Cover with the lid, set on LOW and cook for 10 hrs (or HIGH for 5 hours)
  • 4
    When it's ready, remove the herbs and check that the meat is tender and check seasoning.
  • 5
    About 30 minutes before the end of the cooking time, cook the root vegetables for the mash,starting with cold water and cooking for about 20 minutes from boiling.
  • 6
    Heat the milk with the butter, salt and pepper until warm and the butter just melted. Drain, if making soup, reserve the liquid (the celeriac and parsnips impart a lovely flavour) and mash the veg then beat in the warm buttery milk and the horseradish sauce till light and fluffy.
  • 7
    Serve a piece or two of oxtail per person in a large warm shallow bowl, with lots of vegetables, a nice big scoop of the root mash and plenty of the cooking juices spooned over. Sprinkle the finished plates with a flourish of chopped parsley.
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