Braised Oxtail with Port Wine (砵酒炆牛尾 )

Braised Oxtail with Port Wine (砵酒炆牛尾 ) is one of my favorite dishes.  I'm always tempted to buy oxtails every time I walked by the meat counter.  This recipe is super easy.  All you need is all the ingredients and a heavy duty pot.  I use my dutch oven which hold the heat well and it usually ready in about 3 hours for fork tender oxtails.

Ingredients:
3 lbs           Oxtail
2-3              Carrots
1                 Onion
2-3 stems    Celery
4-5              Tomatoes
1 Cup          Port Wine
1 Cup          Beef Stock (or Chicken Stock)
1 Tbsp         Tomato Paste
3 piece         Rock Sugar
2                  Bay Leaves
                    Salt & Pepper

Methods:

1. Clean the oxtails under running water and pad dry with paper towel
2. Season the oxtail with salt and pepper, the dust it with flour
3. Heat the dutch oven, add oil and seared the oxtails
4. Once all sides are seared, add onion, celery, tomatoes, carrots and tomato paste
5. Then add port wine, stock and bay leaves
6. Put the lid on the dutch oven and cook in medium heat for 20 minutes
7. Turn off the heat but do not open the lid, let it braised for 20 minutes
8. Turn on the heat again and cook in medium for another 20 minutes
9. Repeat step 7 and 8 for two more times or until the oxtail is fork tender

This dish goes really well with pasta or rice even with toasted baguette.

Enjoy!