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Jamaican Oxtail Recipe

To make Jamaican oxtail, clean the oxtail with lemon juice, vinegar, and white rum. Prepare a sauce with Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, seasoning, browning, sugar, and spices, then marinate the oxtail in it. Brown the oxtail in a pressure cooker, add beef broth, thyme, rosemary, garlic, onion, and bay leaf, and cook under pressure until tender. Sauté carrots, scotch bonnet pepper, onions, and celery in another pot, then add the oxtail with its cooking liquid. Let it simmer until the sauce thickens. Serve with rice and peas and fried plantain for an authentic Jamaican experience.
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Cook Time 1 hour
Course Main Course
Cuisine jamaica
Servings 6 People

Ingredients
  

  • 2 ½ pounds of oxtails
  • 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp salt
  • 1 tbsp garlic and herb spices
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tsp Grace browning sauce
  • ¼ tsp paprika
  • ¼ tsp pepper
  • ¼ tsp cayenne pepper
  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 2 carrots
  • 2 celery stalks
  • 1 onion chopped
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • 3 cups broth
  • 1 thyme bunch
  • 1 rosemary sprig
  • 1 bay leaf
  • tbsp butter

Instructions
 

  • Add oxtail to a bowl and clean with lemon juice and vinegar. Wash and add a dash of white rum and set aside.
    2 ½ pounds of oxtails, 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
  • In a smaller bowl, mix Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, salt, garlic and herb seasoning, browning sauce, sugar, paprika and both types of pepper to create a sauce.
    1 tbsp salt, 1 tbsp garlic and herb spices, 1 tbsp sugar, ¼ tsp paprika, ¼ tsp cayenne pepper
  • Add the sauce to the oxtail.
    1 tbsp soy sauce
  • Place a pressure cooker over a high heat and add vegetable oil.
    2 tbsp vegetable oil
  • Once hot, add the oxtail and let it brown. Add your beef broth, thyme, rosemary, garlic, onion and bay leaf and pressure for about 10 minutes or until oxtail softens.
    4 cloves garlic, 1 thyme, 1 rosemary, 1 onion
  • In another pot, add a bit more oil and to it, carrots, a whole scotch bonnet pepper, more onions and chopped celery.
    2 carrots, 2 celery stalks
  • Add oxtail and some of the liquid from the pressure and let it simmer until the sauce thickens.

Notes

Your authentic Jamaican oxtail is now ready to serve! Serve with rice and peas and fried plantain.
Keyword Jamaican Oxtail