Oxtail Soup.
yoshmyster
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Saw this show where dude was having some and I looked up at some recipes but not quite the same as I saw. It was full of onion slices and cilantro never seen oxtail soup like it. Since I didn't have a recipe I riffed it and stole a bit off youtube. Most had bit of ginger to remove the stank. So I threw it in for the first boil to draw the blood and scum. Washed the meat and ginger slices after 10 minutes of boil.
Second boil placed back the oxtails and ginger slices then I also threw in onion trimmings and bit of green onion. Might've left the ginger in a bit too long but most of that flavor got washed out from the first boil. So boiled it for like 10 minutes then slapped the lid and let it sit for like half an hour then brought it to boil again and repeated that for like 3 hours. Pulled the oxtails out and strained the soup. The stock came out really clear that kind a shocked me (I need to do this for my noodle stock). Replaced the oxtail and adjusted salt in the soup then repeated heat and sit for another hour.
I bought tomatoes and serranos for the soup but I'm not sure if I'll be adding them to the whole pot. I may take some (or half) of the pot to make a second soup? Latin/Spanish style. I'll figure it out tomorrow after the pot cools over night. Kind a thinking the last hour of boil was not necessary?
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Agree with Rocky. Only the traditional oxtail recipe for me.
I ended up making salsa and I was so lazy I just threw everything in the blender for that smooth salsa. Good thing I ran in to a bag of Fritos for the salsa.
I suppose what I have now is Korean Oxtail Soup. I threw in some white wood fungus (they look like off white Sno-Ball) for texture (kind a like sea weed with no flavor). Found a half open bag from gawed only knows from when. I'll still throw in some cilantro just because I have them.
I have to go to the Mexican supermarket for them and there I can ask for the tail closer to the butt. They're meatier.