Ox tail soup. In a stockpot, saute the oxtails, carrots, onion, celery, leeks and green pepper in butter until vegetables are crisp-tender. Add the tomatoes, bouillon, seasonings and water. Parsnips, turnips, dried black mushrooms, and brandy give this oxtail soup a unique flavor.

This recipe is a good candidate for the slow-cooker if you don't want to simmer on top of the stove. Oxtail soup is also called poor man's soup. In the old days because it was made from whatever you had available. You can have Ox tail soup using 9 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Ox tail soup

1. Prepare of Ox tail.
2. It's 3 of Potatoes.
3. Prepare 3 of tomatoes (heirloom).
4. You need 1 of onion.
5. Prepare 2 of turnips.
6. It's 1 cup of Ketchup.
7. It's of Carrots.
8. It's of Water that covers them all.
9. Prepare of Pasta (macaroni).

Now it's poor man's soup because of what oxtails now cost. Anyway I think this soup should never be made without parsnips first & foremost. I usually use whole peeled tomatoes & squeeze them into the soup. The oxtail is the tail of a steer, usually cut into segments.

Ox tail soup step by step

1. Boil the ox tail (or beef, chicken, ribs) for 5 mins to remove the blood.
2. Boil another pot of water in a cast iron pot or pressure cooker. Pick up the meat by a tone. Then add chunk veggies..
3. Add seasonings like bay leaves, ketchup, garlic, onions... boil on low/medium heat for 1 hour..

It is a flavorful, tough cut, perfect for slow braising in stews or soups, well marbled with fat, and here's the best part, the bones have a ton of collagen, so good for making a gelatinous stock. Oxtail soup is served all over Hawaii. Discard the bones and transfer the meat to a bowl. Sieve the liquid into another bowl, then cover and chill overnight. Remove and discard any fat that has solidified on top of the soup.