Oxtail Braised In Guinness.
After posting a pic of this Guinness braised oxtail on the Facebook fan page a while back, I’ve been overwhelmed with requests for the recipe. Just when you thought I forgot or ignoring those requests, here it is. Absolutely one of the best oxtail recipes I’ve shared to date and though it’s not something you think when you think about Caribbean cuisine, with our love for both Guinness and oxtails… yea, I assure you this will be a hit and fits well with our culinary culture.
It does take some time to cook, but if you have a slow cooker you can create the base on the stove and let the slow cooker do the rest. If using a slow cooker, you may find that oil may accumulate at the top – spoon off. And those of you who own a pressure cooker.. do your thing. It will cut back on the cooking time.
One more thing before we get to the actual recipe… directly below the recipe you’ll have the chance to win a wonderful box of candy as part of Valentine’s Day celebration. Enter your name as I’d love to send this out to one lucky winner.
You’ll Need…
2 lbs oxtail (cut/trimmed of excess fat)
1 can tomato paste (156 ml / 5.5oz)
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1 large onion
1 1/2 cups diced celery
2 large carrots
2 cans Guinness (see note below)
1 cup water
4 sprigs thyme
2 bay leaves
1/2 teaspoon oregano
1 habanero pepper (any hot pepper you like – optional)
2 tablespoon vegetable oil
Notes. The hot pepper is optional, but I love the heat and additional flavor. I used Guinness draft but I know we get the extra stout in the Caribbean, which is a bit stronger… rest assured that the alcohol will burn off so you don’t have to worry about that. If you want to start off with a good flavor base, replace the vegetable oil with coconut oil.
Wash the pieces of oxtail in some lime or lemon juice and cool water. Drain and pat dry with paper towels. Heat the oil in a deep, heavy pan on med/high heat and start browning the pieces of oxtail. Try not to crowd the pan (BTW if you want you can use 3 lbs of oxtail to feed more people if you wish – simply adjust the salt) or it will release a ton of moisture and you’ll notice it will start to boil and not brown. It should take about 10-15 minutes, remember to keep turning the pieces of oxtail.
Remove the oxtail pieces and set aside for a bit. Turn the heat down to low and add the onion, celery, black pepper, oregano and thyme (leave on the stem if you wish as you can remove it later on). Allow this to cook on a very low heat for about 3-5 minutes.
Now add the tomato paste and give it a good stir. We’re trying to release the natural sugars in the tomato and create a rich base. You’ll notice that it will go darker and there will be a lovely scent in your kitchen. Cook for about 2-3 minutes – keep stirring.
Return the pieces of oxtail to the pot as well as the carrots (cut the carrots in huge chunks), bay leaves and salt. Give that a good stir, turn up the heat to high and add the 2 cans of Guinness. Stir well and bring to a boil with the lid covered. When it comes to a boil, lower the heat to a rolling boil (low) and let cook for about 20 minutes. This is when you’ll add the whole habanero pepper to the pot. Remember to keep it whole for flavor and not the heat. Burst open near the end if you want the excitement of the heat.
After 20 minutes it’s time to add the water and bring it back up to a boil (this would be when I would add everything to a slow cooker or pressure cooker if that’s your plan). When it comes to a boil, reduce the heat to a gentle simmer and allow to cook for about 3 hours or until the meat starts falling off the bones. Continue stirring every 15 minutes or so and if you notice you’re running low on liquid.. add a bit more water. After 3 hours it should be tender… take out the sprigs from thyme, the hot pepper (if you don’t want the heat) and turn up the heat with the pot uncovered to thicken up the rich gravy.
If you want to add a bit more Caribbean influence you can always add a few pimento berries to the pot and a 1/2 teaspoon of green seasoning paste. This is great on rice, mashed potato, roasted breadfruit, ground provisions… even roti or bread. I did a cassava mash, which I’ll share with you in the next couple days. Here’s the video I did to help you follow along the cooking process:
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It’s that time again! Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we’re giving one lucky winner a box of Marshmallow Hearts (milk chocolate coated) from Cémoi Chocolatier. The box of chocolate covered hearts will be shipped to the lucky winner after we receive their shipping address (we even pay the shipping cost). All you have to do is tell me what’s your favorite valentines day dish in the comment section below and your name will be automatically entered to win. Yea.. it’s that simple.
There are two bonus ways you can have your name entered in the contest, giving you 3 chances at winning. Along with leaving a comment below, go to the Facebook fan page and/or the Youtube cooking channel and leave a comment there. I don’t care what your comment is, but it would be nice if you could tell me what’s your fav Valentine’s Day dish.
Here are the rules pertaining to winning the box of “Marshmallow Hearts – Cémoi Chocolatier”…
– contest is open to everyone globally (even if you won something here before)
– there are 3 ways to enter your name (see above)
– 1 winner will be chosen at random (if you left 3 comments, your name will be entered 3 times)
– contest is open from February 14 – to midnight Feb 26.
– the winner will be announced within 1 week of the official close date.
– the winners will have 1 week to contact us with their mailing address
– we will cover all shipping expenses (standard mail)
I hope you take a moment to enter your name as I’d really like to mail this box of chocolates to you. It’s simple, free and fellas you could give to the special lady in your life if you forgot to have something on Valentine’s day.
Good Luck!
How many generous servings would I get from this recipe. The amount of bone in it confuses me.
Looking forward to trying this.
Thanks
i am going to try this with short ribs. wife is no fan of oxtail. go figure. keep up the great work chris.
This is a BIG WINNER. Made this for a couple of friends for a small dinner. I had some left over heated it up for the next night my family LOVE IT. We love hot peppers I use 2. I use my pressure cooker.
Hi Chris, I made this, but it was a little bitter…I think I used too much Guinness. How many fluid ounces are in the cans that you used for this recipe please? Apart from the bitter taste, it was quite tasty. I want to make it again…any advice please?
Hi Chris love all your recipes, keep it up!!!
Made this again yesterday in the slow cooker 5hours on high falling off the bones. So delicious I use 3 and half lbs of oxtail. Feeds 4 . Any sauce left I add a few more veg and eat as rich soup . Habanero pepper just sat in the top adds beautiful flavour and kick x thanks again
Awesome dish.remembers time at home.
Cooked it, it tasted ok, it had a bit of a bitter taste
Hey Josie I diced up some sweet potato in mine. You can also use Yam. That should neutralize any bitter taste you may have.
Just cooking now, smells great the sun is out and a good bunch of friends coming for the tasting,lol! let you all know the results!!!!!! .
Hi chris tried this oxtail overnight in my slow cooker. Absolutely fabulous. Meat fell off the bones and flavour was wonderful thank you. Your recipes are clear and easy to follow.
Going to make green paste for recipes as have the herbs in my garden.
We went to st Lucia for our 25th wedding anniversary and been hooked on caribean food since. Thank you for the best recipes I have found x x
This was overly delicious. I am going to make this over AND over again. Everybody loved ti. Thanks Chris.
I'm a vegetarian so i added cauliflower and chickpeas. Amazing with mashed potatoes!
Always get a thrill anytime you send a recipe..They are always tasty and make me miss home even more.
Not a big oxtail man but love all your recipes.Thanks again my man and keep them coming.I really appreciate all that you do.
I tried your reipe over the weekend with 4kgs of ox tails and use a pressure cooker to make a perfect oxtail stew. Everyone loves it. Thanks
Where's the allspice?
Hello, I may be wrong but I remember my mom making this thing like this with stout.
Mr. Chris, any idea how long I would leave this in a pressure cooker to cook? Any additonal hints when using the pressure cooker to cook this recipe? Bought a new Presto stainless steel 6 quart and thought I would try this as my first dish in the new pressure cooker.
I did the oxtails in guinness feb 29, 2012. It was incredible. I made some brown rice and sauteed some asparagus and yellow/red peppers with it. Thank you so much for the recipe.
You are amazing Chris I love every ingredient you show here and you take your time with every step of the way. I love doing and following your ingredients because now everyone knows me as a great cook.! Keep it up
chocolate!
hey chris tks for the coconut shrimp not too bad for a first timer but i am trying to lose weight at the same time make some low fat dishes
my fav thing to eat is chocolate cake, any thing with chocolate to be exact !!!! yay !!
Hi Chris, My fave VD dish is whatever she decides to make…it's always good.
I wanted to enter the contest for chocolate!! My favorite valentines dish is heart-shaped ANYTHING!!! I've made heart-shaped things from pork chops to pancakes! There's nothing more loving than sharing a heart with your love!! ♥ And chocolate ANY thing!! I love CHOCOLATE!!
For Valentines Day, I always cook chicken marsala with angel hair pasta. For desert we have individual chocolate lava (molten) cakes. My husband is Jamaican and loves caribbean food. So once and awhile I like to cook something that we don't eat often. He just adores this dish served by candlelight with a bottle of champagne.
Chris, I love your recipes and videos. Take care and be blessed.
Gloria
Well I did indeed try the recipe, including the cheesy mashed cassava. However I couldn't get oxtail at the time so I used lamb neck slices. I also finished it in the pressure cooker after cooking it for one hour in a large saucepan. Needless to say, it was wonderful! I ended up only getting once piece of lamb neck! The day I cooked it (Carnival Monday here in Trinidad & Tobago) I had a visitor and her two sons over, and between them and my two children, they virtually "licked the platter clean!" So I ended up getting just one piece of meat! Nice recipe.
I don't really have a favorite dish for Valentine's day. I cook based on what is available at that time of year, which varies widely because we move around so much. Last year covered a chicken with flour tortillas after we marinated it overnight in a mixture of beer and hot sauce. We cooked it in a toaster oven at 350 degrees for about an hour, turning it around every 30 minutes so it would cook evenly.
Yummy LOL
My fav would be a nice spicy Dhal soup and then garlic and thyme roasted veggies and roasted chicken dessert would be a meadly of read fruits merangue and whipped cream mmmm.
read fruit is ment to be red fruit
My fav dish would be pepper shrimp, fried rice, and fresh salad with a glass of fresh grapefruit juice complimented with pineapple icebox cake for dessert.
red velvet cake i love making that….
Yummy! I shared your link with my in-laws.
Thank you, thank you, thank you and thank you for sharing your recipes.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the you tube videos, as well. Take care and God Bless!
Gonna give this one a try for sure!
I always love steak or mussels in garlic sauce for Valentine's Day 🙂
My fave dish is definitely the Oxtail braised in Guinness and for dessert it would have to be Tiramisu followed by a frosty glass of Mauby.Happy ValentinesDay!
I always make spaghetti and meat balls on Valentine Day
Great recipe
My favourite Valentines dinner is Risi Bisi rice, oriental honeyed chicken, garden salad and chocolate cake.
Chris I tried your braised oxtail with guinness it was delicious superb recipe.
My favorurite valentines dish is curried snapper with rice and peas, fried plaintain and salad. Then I would have chocolate rum cake. Washed down with pink champagne and strawberries!!!!
Always look forward to seeing what you’ve conceived in your kitchen.
Virtual photographs make recepies like The Tipsy Tails of Oxen above smell good right from the page!
Cheers!
One of my favourite dishes is Pigeon Peas Soup the way my granny used to make it. Chris I'd love to see the recipe and video for this. I'm learning to prepare more meals from your videos, thank you.
thanks for all and yes i would like to play for the gift
I'm new to CaribbeanPot but enjoying every bit of it. Please keep it coming!!!
trying this tomorrow
My favourite valentine's dish is curried chicken with rice and peas
Oooooh for Valentines day I made a lovely Curry Shrimp on Basmati rice with a Cherry tomato & Watercress salad, we had a spicy Bruscetta appetizer infused with Caribbean flavors. We toasted with sorrel splashed Champagne & crowned it all off with some yummy coconut cake… It was delightful!!!
Hi Chris,
For us we, start with homemade Trini style corn soup, pepper shrimp and oysters like the ones around the Savannah in St. James. Main couse is Chinese-trini style beef stir fry with noodles. Dessert I make the pound cake with coconut topping and a nice espresso shot with some Baileys for a kick.
I don't really have a favorite valentines dish or meal but I do have a favourite dessert for valentines which is cheesecake. mmmmmm
My Valentine’s Day dinner was really special because my hubby is alleric to seafood. He cooked & braved through it just for me. I had Shrimp & Lobster Scampi with Angel Haired Pasta with creamy garlic sauce. Very tasty I must say. I also had a arugula salad with mussels & cranberry vinegarette dressing. My meal was one for the record books!!
Love your cooking. Makes me miss home.
Almost anything chocolate is good in my book.
Fav valentines dessert – red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting. Mmmmm
I don’t have a fav dish for anything …..yet.
I jus got into this cookin thing & I am so happy that I found CaribbeanPot! Love, love, love oxtail! Gonna go shopping today and make it for Sunday dinner tomorrow (hehehehehe, that sounded so ole school). Only disappointment is that I have a slow cooker & Idk what to do w it. I wish u had elaborated on that process a bit.
I am very grateful to have the opportunity to learn how to create excotic dishes from Chris kitchen. Thank you Caribbean Pot…my favotie VD dish is the oxtails but its hard to only pick 1 favorite when i'm in love with ALL the dishes… 🙂 Anna
No favourite meal but definitely anything chocolate!
They look great use your recipes. I also love chocolate.
My new favorites Valentines Day meal is sautèd crab and shrimp in a butter garlic sauce over linguine.
everything that you cook looks soooo good! I can almost taste it. 🙂
Just imagine if we can smell something through a website in the future lol
looks good but i am much into ox tails
My Favourite thing to make is probably some kind of pasta…I like cream sauce and my bf likes red sauce so i compromise and make rose sauce =). although he worked late on Valentines so I made my "if all else fails meal"……Chicken Curry! Love your recipes Chris, keep them coming!
I love oxtails
Everyday is valentines day for me and my husband we don't wait till Feb14th to celebrate and we eat whatever we feel like on that day lol had roasted breadfruit blackfish buljoul (viny dish) and sorrel juice. ( A meal all the men in my family love)
Rice, dhal and curry goat!
Omg! Those oxtails look so delish!!
my favourite dish i BBQ, i guess i love it for any occasion lol, 🙂
If my baby had been with me this Valentines, we might have had beef stew, steamed vegetables, plain rice, maybe stuffed sweet peppers with a bottle of rose wine. Coconut cake for after? or chocolate fondue with strawberries…. hmmmm, I wish he was here…
I enjoy have Lobster meal sometimes
chocolate!!
My favourite valentine day dish is shepherd's pie with baked pork and fresh salad with sorrel or soursop juice and the dessert Black forest cake of course!!!!!!
oxtail with broad beans and rice and peas with sorrel drink mix with rum.
roasted beef, potatoe salad, rice and peas and a nice glass of grape wine
Pepper shrimp, mashed potatoes, vegetables and for desert , black forest cake yum!
Curry anything in a big bowl………I love it when the two of us are digging into the same bowl with our paratha/buss up shut in hand and the curry is dripping, waiting to be licked!!
curried goat, channa and dhalpurri….for my valentine favorites in the family.
For Valentines Day i love to whip up something special, usually whatever I’m in the mood for. Rice with pigeon peas with sofime pernil, lasagna, or some escabeche which is codfish with green bananas and avocado, its a salad. Then I’ll make either a flan or a strawberry topped cheesecake, or a tres leches cake..
My husband and I don't wait for valentines day or any other day to do something special, we do it when we can and when the finance is available. Never-the-less last night we went to the movies and
had burger and fries and wings. Not exacly my choice for valentine's night if I am dinning. I love chinese food.
I love oxtails but I usually stew it with peas, but I will try this recipe and let you what I think. Hope my reply qualify me for that box of chocolate
any meal that I can have with my family is my favourite!
hi im a vegetarian and i would like to try this with soya. On valentine's dinner i like a vegi fry rice with stew soya , tofu with brocoli and baked sweetpotato. for desert we go with an eggless cake. we then have a non-alcoholic wine.
looks just yummy
my valentine's dinner is rosmary lamb, mash potatoes and aspargas. yummy and romantic with candle lights and red wine.
I love brown stewed snapper fish with a hint of Jerk flavour!!
My favourite dish is salmon cooked with canadian maple syrup.
Hey Chris i have done your oxtail recipe very impressed ,plus i like most of your your recipes i don't use all the ingredients i experiment. and mix and match,I did a 3/4 side of belly pork,last night,i dried it sprinkled it with coarse sea salt and some veg oil rubbed it well into the scored skin put it in a pre heated oven for an hour as high as it would go, then turned it down to 130deg's for about 3 plus hours ,done didn't need a knife to cut it,it just fell apart.pls tell how you do pork belly ? have a nice day m8.
I will go for the true South African braai,lamb chops,t bone,fillet,boerewors(sausage),lamb rib,and a good pot bread.
My favourite Valentine's dish would be Grilled Steak and Mashed Potatoes…yum…..
My fav dish-s is curry conch and seafood soup.
So my husband got stuck at work,so my son and I did it simply, Spaghetti and meatballs. For dessert pumpkin muffins.
Chocolate is good. Bring it on.
Do not celebrate valentine because of religious reasons…But I'm craving me some chocolates!!! Yum…Yum…
I am Jamaican. Jamaicans love Guinness. Jamaicans also love oxtail, especially for Sunday dinner so this is a try for me…Only difference is that our Guinness here is bottled and probably tastes better…lol…lol…
vegetable fried rice,pepper shrimp,macaroni pie and a green salad with dessert being red vevet cake with cream cheese topping and our own willies coconut ice cream.
My daughter help me made some molten chocolate cakes and decorated it with red fondant hearts for dessert! So yummy!! 😉
Tonight, I made a lovely Valentine's family dinner with the hubby and my 2 young girls. On the menu, veal scallopini with cognac and pink peppercorn cream sauce.
Chocolate is good! Proof God loves man
i love backed chicken with backed potato jackets
My valentines dinner was at swiss chalet…with some nice red wine….if i had to cook dinner it would have been oxtail and rice with salad and a piece of black forest cake for dessert…
chocolate …chocolate…chocolate.!!did i say chocolate.
Boil and fried cassava with curry duck.
she loves when i make chicken curry roti… but we usually tend to cheat with store tortillas because that's the way the hotel restaurant served it on our first trip to the caribbean! that was our punishment for going to the bvi instead of trinidad lol…
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she loves when i make chicken curry roti… but we usually tend to cheat with store tortillas because that's the way the hotel restaurant served it on our first trip to the caribbean! that was our punishment for going to the bvi instead of trinidad lol…
Love lamb shanks but maybe this dish will turn out to be my new favourite 🙂
my favorite dish is hard to tell, but i guess it will have to be something that includes potatoes
Mmmmmmm I love oxtail!
Nothing better for dessert than
Chocolate !! 🙂
Happy Hearts Day!!
Wow this looks great and i think that as today is my birthday you should just give me the gift!!!!! LOL
Hope you had a great day.
Happy Valentines to you and your lovely wife….
and that oxtail looks fantastic!!!!!!
must try it
Spicy prawns and chorizo in a tomato sauce, served on a bed on basmati rice.
that would be red beans and rice, honey glazed ham baked chicken and caesar salad and i think i would like a pina coloda to go with that
I grew up with my mom making oxtails for us, in soups and stewed, I made it for my kids too , but i never thought about doing it like that, very interesting.. I have to try that..
I love to get Chinese take out on Valentine's day!
You are awesome. I cannot wait to make it myself. AND I love your marketing….
Lamb stew with garlic mashed potatoes and vegetables.
Looks fantastically tasty!
I dont have any favorite valentine dinner,but I do enjoy tasty desserts.
My favorite dish is curry lamb w bodi served with island rice and pholourie served with tamarind chutney.
My favourite dish to cook for my hubby is any new recipes that you post. Keep up the great work and keep those good Caribbean recipes coming!!!!!!!! 🙂
my favorite dish is curry goat, white rice and cabbage.
I just bought all the ingredients to make this. It looks exactly like a dish I had on my cruise last year. My husband and I went back three times. Can't wait to make it.
making this recipe with love is a perfect valentine gift for that special someone
Favorite Dish is some Shrimp and Lobster Scampi and Crab Cakes with a baked potatoe…too bad hubby allergic to shellfish ;(
I am making oxtail stew with rice and peas and having a glass of pink moscato with the hubby for Valentine's day…yumm!
also curry goat as well!
Curry goat with pigeon peas and rice with a side salad of lettuce, tomatoes, cukes, radish and shredded cabbage.
my favorite valentines day dish would be anything curry!!!!!!!!!!!! curry chicken and white rice and cabbage!
Curry chicken.
My favorite dish to make on valentine’s day would be eggplant parmesan, garlic bread and fettucine alfredo with a red wine on the side. For dessert mini strawberry cupcake with chocolate frosting and chocolate strawberrys.
Marshmallow chocs. are the best. mmmhhhh!!!!
Chris you are bringing back all the delicious trini food from my younger days growing up
in my lovely Trinidad.
Well if those 'oxtails' isn't delicious, I don't know what is. I am sureyly going to try it. Thanks Chris. don't need the chocolate.
Blackforest cake… oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh 🙂
Love those chocolates and your recepies.
jerk chicken and dirty rice…with champagne!
I love and enjoy all the kinds of food in the world.. I love trying new things.. Even at Valentine's Days!
anything ;as long as it comes from the heart!!
Or if I have to cook……. I would do simple mashed potatoes, steamed veges ans baked chicken or ribs
My fav dish which he could makle for me is oysters kilpatrick!!!
My perfect valentines meal would be at the Keg!
A nice steak with spicy potatoes. So hungry…
It's a special occassion, so Chateaubriand tops the list.
I usually make my husband spicy spaghetti and great dessert. Simple but flavorful and red for Valentine's Day. Thank you for the oxtail recipe. My family loves them and this will be another great recipe of yours to try.
Oxtail stew is the best; all that silkiness in that spicy sauce! Good!
Fav valentines day dish? hmmm.. i'm not sure. fave valentines day drink – cupid's kiss. nothing like some bacardi w/ white creme de cocoa and white hcocolate shavings to make valentines day sweeter!
i don't have a favorite dish but i'm a chocolate lover
Grilled lobster tails with lemon butter, roasted beets, and hand dipped dark chocolate strawberries
I love to do a surf and turf meal for my family. Happy Valentine's Day everyone!
my cou-cou wid flying fish hmmmmmm.
PF Chang's Sesame chicken and shrimp fried rice. Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Favorite valentines desert…. Pink coconut sugar cake !
Favorite valentines dish is….. Any home made dish made with love.
Any dish that I don't have to cook today. 🙂
coconut sugar cakes best to sweeten even the most reluctant heart on valentines day 😀
my favourite herb is Shadon Beni, it gives any meat a great flavor and for me is the best seasoning really gives that Trni flavor to any meal!
Broiled lamb chops Spinach baked potato creme brule
I am vegetarian cant wait to try this with potatoes 🙂
You're vegetarian and you want to eat a beef stew?
my favourite dish to make for my hubby is rosemary lamb and season rice