Recipe detail

Directions

*oxtails-900g each
1. Rinse the tails well and cut them into eight equal chunks.
2. In a Dutch oven render the fat from the cured pork jowl by heating it from cold until the fat melts, adding evoo as necessary.
3. Sear the tail chunks in the hot, rendered fat, adding the garlic cloves, halved, stemmed and finely chopped, salt and pepper at a later stage.
4. Deglaze with white wine on high heat until the alcohol has evaporated and the wine reduced.
5. Set the oven on combi at 90°C.
6. Combine the tomatoes, cover with a lid and slow-cook in the oven for 3–4 hours or until the meat around the tails has fully tenderised.
7. Towards the end of the stewing process, soften the celery in hot evoo in a skillet and add to the pan about 60ml of jus from the stew, roasted pine nuts, raisins and cocoa powder.
Simmer for 5 minutes.
8. Plate a piece of oxtail per portion, topping with the pine nut and raisin sauce as garnish.