Simple Homemade Oxtail Soup
This Simple Homemade Oxtail Soup will go down well with family and friends, it is absolutely delicious and makes for the perfect dinner.
- 1.5 kg oxtail
- 1 large lemon
- salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- 5 bay leaves
- garlic (whole head)
- 2 large onions
- 1.5 cup spring onions (chopped)
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Starting with your onions, peel and chop them into large chunks. Peel the garlic, leaving them as whole cloves and put aside.
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Salt the oxtail meat generously and add it to a pot, squeeze the large lemon and pour water on top of the meat. Keeping the lemon inside the pot, boil for about 30 minutes.
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The water that has boiled with the lemon and salt cleanses your meat. Pour this water out along with the lemon slices and give the meat a good rinse.
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After washing all the water out of the pot, add fresh water back in with the meat, garlic cloves and onion chunks. Add a generous amount of salt, pepper and bay leaves.
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Put to boil for 3 hours on medium heat.
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After the oxtail has boiled, take the meat out and put in a large serving bowl.
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Strain the juice from the pot, taking out the garlic cloves and onion chunks from the broth. Add the drained broth on top of the oxtail in the serving bowl.
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Remember to squeeze the garlic and onions to keep the extra puree that comes out and add it to your serving bowl.
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Chop the spring onions and add to the serving bowl.
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Boil some rice on the side, serve and enjoy
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