Oxtail with a lovely sweet, rich, dark sauce. How???

[Kermit power]

I had a steak a few weeks ago at a pub in Somerset. It had a little side dish of slow roasted oxtail in this utterly gorgeous sweetish, rich, dark, sticky sauce. The menu had the steak as the main event, but the oxtail just blew it away.

As we were late for the cinema, I didn't have time to ask them how they made it, and now I really want to recreate it or something similar, but I haven't a clue where to start.

Anyone got any ideas? Vague, I know!

[calibrax]

Best way surely is to phone up the pub and ask them? Otherwise you could spend your entire life trying to recreate it and never manage it...

[Pferdestarke]

Oxtail, chopped in to inch-thick pieces, beef stock, red wine, onion, carrot, thyme, salt and pepper. Cook for at least 4 hours on 140c. If the sauce is too thin, decant to a pan and boil to reduce to the syrup-like consistency you enjoyed.

Serve either on or off the bone.

Yum!

[Mobile Chicane]

Pferdestarke said:

Oxtail, chopped in to inch-thick pieces, beef stock, red wine, onion, carrot, thyme, salt and pepper. Cook for at least 4 hours on 140c. If the sauce is too thin, decant to a pan and boil to reduce to the syrup-like consistency you enjoyed.

Serve either on or off the bone.

Yum!

(works for me)

I'd agree it's something like this - but cooked in a slow cooker for 8 hours (or more). Bone marrow may have been used to enrich it. As suggested, phone up and ask. Or go back and get the chef drunk after hours.

[Romanymagic]

Try the above and add some gravy browning to get that rich dark colour the OP desires.

[Kermit power]

Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of the pub, hence my trying to figure it out! I'll give the above a shot though.

[Anna_S]

We did this for a dinner party (with a few small changes to the recipe)
http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/613888

Oxtail was fatastic though, so tender

[SVX]

I cooked oxtail in Leffe Brune beer this weekend, picked the meat off the bone and added it to a soup base of slow cooked vegetables. Went down a storm.

[dougc]

I've got a Nigel Slater book with this recipe in it. Never tried it but keep meaning to. The picture in the book makes my mouth water every time

Edited by dougc on Tuesday 7th July 11:46