Blue Plate Special

Mom’s Oxtail Soup

February 3, 2011 at 5:41 pm | Posted in Dinner, Other | Leave a comment

My mom makes great oxtail soup.  She sent me a recipe out of a Chinese Cookbook (don’t know which one, sorry) when I asked her for the recipe a while back but haven’t been able to post it, heck I haven’t even been able to make it!  I need to get on that soon…

Ingredients:

2 lbs beef or Oxtail

6 onions – shredded

3 stalks celery – sliced

1 carrot – sliced

1/3 lbs cabbage – sliced

6 tomatoes – diced

1 green bell pepper – sliced

1 can tomato paste

4 bay leaves

10 cups water

 

Seasoning Ingredients:

1 tsp ground black peppercorn

1/2 lemon (for squeezing the juice)

2 cloves garlic – chopped

1 and 1/2 tsp salt

 

Directions:

1. Wash beef and dice.  Scald and rinse in cold water.  Drain.

2. Stir fry garlic.  Add beef and fry until fragrant.  Set aside.

3. Heat oil and fry onion until soft.  Add celery, carrot, cabbage and cook till fragrant.  Set aside.

4. Heat 2 Tbsp of oil.  Fry tomatoes.  Add tomato paste and 1 Tbsp of sugar.  Fry until fragrant.

5. Boil water.  Put in all ingredients and seasoning.  Bring to a boil and then turn heat to medium.  Cook for 2 hours.  Shift to low heat and simmer for another 2 hours until the soup turns thick. (You can also use a slow cooker this way too).

6. Enjoy