Rabo de Toro
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5
2 reviews
Excellent
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Prep Time
30 mins
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Cook Time
5 hrs
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Rest Time
30 mins
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Total Time
5 hrs 30 mins
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Servings
8 people
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Course
Main Course
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Cuisine
Mediterranean, Spanish
Rabo de Toro
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Rabo de toro is a Spanish oxtail stew that is slow cooked for delicious fall-off-the-bone meat that is infused with red wine, garlic, and thyme aromas.
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Ingredients
- 3 lb Oxtail , cut into thick slices
- 2 onion chopped
- 3 carrot diced, medium
- 1 red bell pepper , diced
- 5 cloves garlic , chopped
- 4 tomato ripe, peeled, seeded and crushed
- 1 leek , roughly chopped
- 2 bay leaf
- 2 prigs thyme
- 3 cups red wine
- salt
- black pepper , freshly ground
- extra virgin olive oil
- 1 cup flour
Equipment
- Dutch oven
Instructions
- Allow the pieces of meat to rest at room temperature for 30 minutes before cooking.
- Generously coat the pieces of oxtail with flour. Remove the excess flour.
- Heat 6 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the pieces of oxtail.
- Brown the meat on all sides. Remove the meat from the pan and set aside.
- In a large Dutch oven, heat 6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil over medium heat. When the oil is hot, add the onion and garlic.
- Brown for 5 minutes and add the bell pepper and carrots.
- Brown for 10 minutes, stirring regularly.
- Add the leeks, bay leaves and thyme to the pan and sauté for another 10 minutes, stirring regularly.
- Add the tomatoes and continue cooking for 15 minutes.
- Add the red wine, stir well and add the reserved meat.
- Cook over medium-high heat, uncovered, for 10 minutes.
- Cover the Dutch oven, lower the heat and simmer the stew for 4 hours over low heat.
- After these 4 hours, remove the pieces of meat that should be very tender and prepare the sauce with the vegetable stew.
- Strain all the sauce and vegetables in a chinois (fine sieve) and crush everything to obtain a finer sauce.
- Pour the sauce into the pan and put the meat in it.
- Cook covered for 5 minutes.
- Serve with simmered or sautéed potatoes.
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