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Oxtail Stew

Name: Oxtail Stew
Total time: 210 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Jamaica
Ingredients: 1kg Oxtail; 200g White Beans (canned); 1 Onion; 4 cloves Garlic; 1 knob Ginger; 3 Green Onion; 3 Thyme; 1 Chili pepper; 1 tbsp Sugar; 2 tbsp Soy Sauce; 2 tbsp Ketchup; 3 Clove; 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil; 1 tsp Salt; 1/2 tsp Black Pepper; 1L Water

Main Dish

⏱ 210 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Oxtail cooked until meltingly tender with butter beans — a Jamaican Sunday dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Oxtail is a Jamaican Sunday treat. The oxtail is seasoned with browning (burnt sugar), thyme, allspice, and scallion and simmered for hours until tender. Butter beans are added at the end, and it's eaten with rice and peas.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On Sunday afternoon in Jamaica, the family back from church sits down to a pot of dark stew and rice and peas.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Oxtail 1kg
White Beans (canned) 200g
Onion 1
Garlic 4 cloves
Ginger 1 knob
Green Onion 3
Thyme 3
Chili pepper 1
Sugar 1 tbsp
Soy Sauce 2 tbsp
Ketchup 2 tbsp
Clove 3
Vegetable Oil 2 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper 1/2 tsp
Water 1L

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Rub the oxtail with salt, pepper, soy sauce, grated garlic and ginger, chopped scallion, and thyme and marinate at least 2 hours.
Caramelize sugar in oil in a pot, add the oxtail, and brown all over.
Add water, cloves, a whole chili, and chopped onion, cover, and simmer on low for 2.5 hours.
Add the ketchup and beans and simmer 20 minutes.
When thick, season with salt.

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