Oxtail Potjie
Potjie No: 4
Serves: 6 – 8
Cooking Time: 4 hours
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Ingredients
500g Oxtails cut into 2 inch thick pieces
10 slices Bacon cut into 1 inch pieces
½ cup flour seasoned with salt and pepper
1 litre beef stock
1 can tomato paste
1 bay leaf
6 black peppercorns
1 bouquet garni
6 large leeks, chopped coarsely
2 large onions, chopped coarsely
6 large carrots, chopped coarsely
20 button mushrooms
1 cup red wine
½ cup sherry
½ cup cream
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons crushed garlic
Method
Dry oxtails with paper towel.
Put seasoned flour in a ziplock bag, then add the Oxtail and shake to coat with flour.
Heat butter and olive oil and sauté bacon pieces.
Remove bacon and brown Oxtail in resulting fat, remove and drain.
Finely dice 4 of the carrots.
Coarsely chop the onions and the leeks.
Add the finely diced carrots, leeks, onions and sauté until softened
Add Oxtail, bacon, bouquet garni, bay leaf, peppercorns, garlic, tomato sauce, red wine, sherry.
Bring slowly to a boil and cook slowly for 3 – 4 hours.
1 hour before serving cut the remaining carrots into 1 inch pieces, add them and mushrooms and continue cooking slowly.
Just prior to serving, add cream and stir in.
If you want to thicken the sauce mix some cornstarch with the cream before adding.
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Divine, the best Potjie I ever tasted. Changed the receipt slightly added two storks of thyme instead of a bouquet garni. Added barbeque spice two teaspoons. Added the 1 liter of beef stock after the red wine and sherry the instruction not listed in the recipe cooked for one hour. Then added about 16 baby potatoes and green beans in hour two.
Hi there, can anyone tell me how long to cook the oxtail potjie if I am doubling up the quantities?
Ta!
Cooking time should be the same. Use larger pot for bigger quantities. Check heat though – pot must simmer.
Anybody knows of potjiekos competitions during March in Cape Town?
Used the recipe for the first time in a casual church potjie competition and WON! Not reall surprising because it is so tasty. Thanks for the recipe.
Great recipe. I won a small church potjie competition using it. Very tasty.