How To Cook Oxtail Potjiekos - Beef Potjie - South African Food
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- čas přidán 21. 04. 2024
- Oxtail Potjiekos Recipe
Join me on a culinary journey as we dive into the rich and aromatic world of South African cuisine with this delicious Oxtail Potjiekos recipe! In this step-by-step guide, I'll show you how to create a tantalising pot of tender oxtail stew infused with a medley of spices and veggies, cooked to perfection in a potjie - a traditional South African cast-iron pot over an open flame.
The slow-cooking process enhances the flavours, this recipe is a celebration of culinary traditions and savoury goodness. Whether you're a seasoned chef or a cooking enthusiast looking to explore new tastes, this Oxtail Potjiekos is a must-try!
In this video, you'll learn:
• Step-by-step cooking instructions
• Which ingredients I like to use for an Oxtail Potjiekos
Gather your ingredients, fire up your potjie pot, and get ready to embark on a flavoursome adventure with this Oxtail Potjiekos recipe!
Ingredients:
• 3kg oxtail, cut into pieces
• 1 cup flour
• Vegetable or olive oil
• 3 large onions
• 6-8 cloves garlic
• 4 large or 6 medium tomatoes
• 4 celery sticks
• 4-6 carrots
• 2 dozen baby potatoes
• Tomato puree
• 3 beef stock cubes
• ¾ bottle red wine
• 4-6 bay leaves
• Salt and pepper to taste
• Worcestershire sauce
• Mushrooms
• Baby sweetcorn
• 1 tablespoon mixed herbs
• 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
• 1 teaspoon ground turmeric
• 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 2 teaspoons ginger
Potjie pot
Firepit
South African hardwood / braaiwood
Instructions:
1. Light the fire using South African hardwood - it burns for longer.
2. Heat the vegetable oil in a large potjie (cast iron pot) over medium-high heat.
3. Pat dry oxtail pieces with paper towel.
4. Cover the oxtail pieces with flour - season with salt and pepper to taste.
5. Add oxtail pieces to the pot and brown on all sides, working in batches if necessary.
6. Remove the oxtail from the pot and set aside.
7. Add the chopped onion, minced garlic, herbs and spices to the potjie and cook until softened.
8. Return the browned oxtail to the pot.
9. Crush beef stock cubes, splash Worcester sauce and squeeze some tomato puree.
10. Free pour wine.
11. Add tomatoes and celery.
12. Add potatoes, carrots and mushrooms.
13. Cover the pot with its lid and reduce the heat to low.
14. Let the potjiekos simmer gently for 3-5 hours, until the oxtail is tender and falling off the bone.
15. Once the oxtail is cooked through and the vegetables are tender, remove the pot from the heat.
16. Serve with rice, dumplings, pap or anything of your choice.
This recipe should yield a flavourful and hearty oxtail potjiekos for a larger group. Enjoy your cooking! - Jak na to + styl
Watching from Phoenix, Durban, South Africa awesome food
Thanks
Pacino
Wow nice food,thank you so much darling i love your pootjikos nice one ❤❤❤
Looks sooooo delicious and mouth watering! Definitely trying this recipe! Thanks for sharing!
It finally arrived and in excellent condition. A #2 Best Duty body and a Falkirk #2 lid! Stellar on the inside, some rust and old dust on the outside. A good scrape here and there, hot bath and 3 light oils and trips through the oven...she's beautiful! In Eastern Oregon no one considers eating ox tails.... It will be an event for our two real butchers of the area when I ask for ox tails!! Thanks, again, for posting and don't let the 'critics' get you down. That dinner looked super yummy....hope mine is as good!
Many thanks for your kind messages. I'm glad your potjie arrived in excellent conditions. You're going to cook many tasty meals in your new toy. PLEASE let me/ us know how you get on. Haha, it'll be cool to find out how the butchers react - they might need to order some in for you. Oxtail is a cheap cut of meat that they might even throw away so they'll probably be happy to supply it to you. You might even start a new trend in Eastern Oregon.
@@londonsouthafrican
How many hours to cook this African stew!❤
Sacrilege to NOT eat oxtail! Delicious favourite. I don't have a potjie, but use a slow cooker.
@@jennypage2005I use a pressure cooker
You're dish makes me yummy yummy hungry,!!!,🍉
There's a South African dish...👌
Lekker kos
Watching from Cape Town 🇿🇦
Excellent. Reminds me of back home. That outside fire.🔥 The food tastes better too
🇿🇦 watching from home thank you brother's and sister all over the world to support our brother
Mmm Can't wait to prepare for my family, Yummy, Super
Wow the potjie looks so good and tasty. Love it👏👏🇿🇦
Yummy winter food
Dit lyk verskriklik lekker, yummy
Baie dankie. Die was baie lekker 🙂
Yummy sharing just connected
Well done. I love oxtail
Look so delicious
Appetizing!
Love this eish
Yumy
Im going to cook it following what I saw. Awesome
Nice, let us know how it turns out. 🙂
Luke goes!! Lekker 👌🏾
Asome Gary, wish I was there to share the delicious oxtail 🎉
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Thank you, it was mouth watering 🙂
Looks yummy 😋
Watching from South Africa Welkom
Yerre Falkirk number 2!!!
Dit lyk flippin lipsous lekker.
@londonsouthafrican looks great Bru represent🔥
This is a high-end potjie.... love it. I always flavour my veggie layers after browning the oxtail...cook the oxtail as you do, then layer my veggies without stirring the pot. Once completed, I then give it a final stir/mix and let it rest for approx 5 minutes before we dish. I am definitely going to try your method.... looks delicious 😋😋😋
Thank you for watching my video and taking your time to let us know how you make yours. Your method also sounds good. 🙂
Greetings from Cape Town 🇿🇦
Dude… so good
Thanks pal
Yummy! I like the idea of separating the veg before dishing up.😀
Ek geniet baie sous! Dankie vir die inspirasie. ❤
Thanks - this is the first time that I separated the veggies from the meat and I'm glad I did. Will keep doing it in the future , or else it's a luck of the draw when dishing up.
Mmmmm
Good kos
I miss South Africa. I will cook potjiekos this weekend ~ will copy your recipe. Dankie
I also miss SA but this is a nice way to keep traditions going. Enjoy cooking over the weekend and don't forget to let us know how it goes.
How timely and delicious! Best Duty potjies are hard to find and when you do, they are very expensive here in the USA....$200+ for #2! Stumbled across one on EBay auction, just what I have been looking for for several months...a Best Duty #2. Just my size and in excellent condition for just under $100 with freight. Am so excited for it and to find your site. All the cows around me need their tails at this time, so I'll sub for the beef. BTW, what wine did you use? ...keep posting and have a great Spring!
Thank you for sharing your story. I'm glad you found the potjie that you were looking for. Don't worry if you can't find oxtail, just replace it with another cut of meat, however, you might want to reduce the cooking time if it isn't a tough meat like oxtail. I used cheap wine that I bought from a supermarket - it worked well.
Looks good. Everyone has their own style of cooking oxtail. Different methods and seasonings yield different flavors so don’t be rude to say how oxtails should be prepared. The brother used less oil and the fat to sear the meat.
Jy KAn maar! Heerlik. Ek MOET dit probeer! Dankie!
😭😢..... 👌🏽👌🏽🙌🏾
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Then cook Stambu( Samp) with boontjies… ijooo or idombolo ( dumplings) or jeqe
Where can I buy the pot in london?
What is the thing under the drie foot called ? Id like to buy it
Yummy. But that is not leaks you put in there; that was celary!
Ja, hierdie boerseun mag maar n potjie maak! Ek hoop net die kole is genoeg.
wHOOOAAA AKENIME LOMAMA UPHEKA INHLOKO YINI?
Nice knife!
I've never seen anyone break up an oxo cube like that but my gran probably did it that way 😛
I appreciate the video but I don't do the flour anymore because when browning the meat it tends to burn and burnt flour spoils the whole poitjie
correct noodles...that oxtail genocide
What herbs and spices were used? We are making this potjie right now!
Nice, enjoy.
Please look in the video's description for the ingredients.
Just my cup of gravy, firstly you should trim the fat off the oxtail.. look at your sauce at the end, very oily, second NEVER use olive oil to brown your meat (look it up) Tomatoes, or any GREEN veg do not belong in an oxtail potjie. Mushrooms, carrots and potatoes, Red wine, garlic, rosemary, THAT's it and yes, oxtail stock cube or even oxtail soup powder accepted. Ps what I have learned over the years, (seeing you have outdoor facility) is to put the unseasoned , trimmed oxtail on the Braai !! to get the sear and the extra smokey flavor. Last note, what Ina Paarman .. Paarman Foods) taught me (yes I know her personally) is to add sliced beef chin to your pot, it will stretch the pot as oxtail is very expensive now in SA, don't know about the UK. Well done and good luck with your next endeavors. Remember NO TOMATOES in an Oxtail Potjie!!
Just put those meat pieces in a big enough plastic bag, pour your seasoned flour and shake.
Stew
Lekker stew 🙂
Nice, cut the meat a bit, marinade in lemon juice, red wine and sugar....Durban..
What is the liquid poured, is it red wine or vinegar?
Liquid is 50 % red wine 50% beef stock
Old tradition
Not sure about the firefighter!
Only the rich can afford oxtail
Ja nee VREK!🤣
Not true
It's recommended to add tomato on winter. If you add it on summer, you gonna get diarrhea at 1am
Howcome?
Really
uhm just wine??
Why is the knife having problems cutting the bacon🤨
leeks?
Feel free to include leeks. I've used leeks in other potjies but not in this one.
Dit lyk heerlik, knap gedaan
Baie dankie, dit het lekker geproe
10:02 That is celery .... not leek.
You're 💯 right. Not sure why I said leek in the video. I got it right in the ingredients part of the description.
Armgatte kan nie oxtail bekostig
Too much wine 🍷 don't you have water
end result could have been better.just too much stirring and too watery,just saying
Dankie vir die Oxtail Sop resep. Jy moet leer behoorlike pot maak voor jy sulke kak op CZcams post
Se hom ja. lmk'
Te veel wyn
Kinda rude nei 😂
@@AdrianaGyska 🙂
Ek wil altyd leer hoe ander mense dit maak. Any tips are welcome so please share them 🙂
@@sadeqmintin4909 haha, te veel wyn = babelaas
Because the cheff kept stirring the potjie it ended up as a stew... Not a potjie.
I find that it's good to stir the meat while it's browning - together with the onions, garlic, herbs, spices, base veggies etc. If you don't stir it at this stage then you won't get the flavours onto your meat - and you can't brown the meat if you don't stir it. You'll note that I layered the veggies and didn't stir them at all. I even mentioned this in the video.
Thanks for your feedback.