Oxtail Sopas, Oxtail with Macaroni Soup
Oxtail Sopas, Oxtail with Macaroni Soup. This is another innovative dish that I made last week. I was planning to make a stew out of oxtail but I thought it would be best if I just have it cook the oxtail Pinoy style. For the reason that to most Pinoy oxtail is usually cooked as soup dish. Cooking the dish is fairly easy, except for the long cooking hours of the oxtail it is basically the same with my other sopas dish below.
To make the cooking simple I just used frozen mixed vegetables for the vegetable ingredients however you may substitute it with your usual favorite sopas vegetables. Then I had to used fresh milk for the reason that I could not find a Pinoy brand of canned evaporated milk, again go ahead use a canned evaporated milk. Here is the recipe of my Oxtail Sopas, Oxtail with Macaroni Soup.
Ingredients:
1/2-1 kilo oxtail
2 cups macaroni elbow pasta
1 cup mixed vegetables
1 small bundle, spring onion, chopped
1/2 head garlic, crushed
1/2 head garlic, chopped
1 small size onion quartered
1 medium size onion, chopped
1/4 cup fish sauce
1/2 cup fresh milk
1 tsp. peppercorns
salt and pepper
cooking oil
Cooking procedure:
Put the oxtail in a large pot, add enough water to cover oxtail to at least 1” above. Bring to a boil and let boil for 2 to 3 minutes, discard and drain first boil water, rinse the oxtail to remove scum. Add in enough fresh water to the pot to cover the oxtail to at least 2” above. Add in crushed garlic, quartered onion and peppercorns. Bring to a boil and simmer for 1 to 1 1/2 hours or until oxtail start to fall off from the bones. Add more water as necessary, remove scum that rises. When done separate the oxtail from the broth, using a sieve filter out residue and scum from the broth, keep aside. Using same pot sauté garlic and onion until fragrant, add in oxtail and stir cook for a 1 to 2 minutes. Add in fish sauce stir cook for 1 to 2 minutes, now add in the reserved broth add more water as necessary. Bring to a boil, add in the macaroni pasta and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes or until al dente and stirring occasionally, add more water if required. Add in the mixed vegetables and continue to cook for 2 to 3 minutes, season with salt and pepper to taste. When ready to serve add in the milk and garnish with spring onion.
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this is amazing! too bad i don't eat oxtail bec of the heavy fat content, but i do LOVE oxtail though.
ReplyDeleteIt looks so yummy! At first look I thought it was a Sinigang sa Miso bowl. But I think this sopas is good both as a main course and as a merienda.
ReplyDeleteHi Jean,
ReplyDeleteIt is good as main course...