Oxtail With Red Wine Potjie

Submitted by L. Duch

"This is a wonderful dish a South African friend sent me. The oxtail gives such a rich flavour."

 

• Ready In: 3hrs 30mins
• Ingredients: 14
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 1360.77 g oxtails, cut into sections
• 29.58 ml all-purpose flour
• 29.58 ml cooking oil
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 1 garlic clove, crushed
• 2 bay leaves
• 9.85 ml salt
• fresh ground black pepper
• 2.46 ml dried rosemary or 9.85 ml fresh rosemary
• 236.59 ml dry red wine
• 236.59 ml meat stock
• 2 leeks, sliced
• 2 carrots, quartered
• 2 stalk celery, cut into chunks

directions

1. 1. Coat oxtail with flour and brown in heated oil.
2. 2. Add bay leaves, salt pepper and rosemary to meat, and pour heated wine and stock itno pot. Stir once, then cover with lid and simmer slowly for 2.5-3 hours or until meat is tender. Only open the lid to replenish with heated wine or meat stock if necessary.
3. 3. Arrange leeks, carrots and celery on top of meat and simmer for further 15-30min.