Oxtail is one of Jamaica’s favorite authentic dishes.
Oxtail is traditionally cooked with dry butter beans. Cooking oxtail with dry butter beans the traditional way can take a few hours from start to finish. Oxtail is usually served with white rice or rice and peas and or provisions. The Oxtail recipe below is used daily at Ocho Rios Jerk Restaurant in Jansen Beach Florida. The chef at Ocho Rios Jerk Restaurant prepare the dishes using the finest quality ingredients.
1. Add water in iron pot to slightly cover oxtail and dry butter beans. Cover pot and turn stove to high heat.
2. Allow water to heat for 10 minutes then add browning sauce to pot.
3. Allow water to boil down to a quarter of original amount. Stir to ensure meat and beans does not stick to the bottom of pot. Allow oxtail and beans to continue cooking.
4. Use a fork to stick meat and beans until the meat is not spongy but tender and folk penetrate beans. Continue this process until oxtail and beans are tender.
5. Add water as needed to ensure liquid gravy does not dry out.
6. Once oxtail is tender and dry beans cooked, let pot simmer over medium heat stirring a few times.
7. ** Once oxtail is tender add butter beans from can based on desired choice.
8. Once oxtail is tender & gravy thickened it’s done.
Note: Oxtail must be cooked before adding pre cooked butter beans from can or cook dry beans along with oxtail.
Pressure Cooker Instructions: (Iron pot is recommended)
1. When using pressure cooker, add water to slightly cover oxtail & dry beans and pressure for 20 to 30 minutes. Remove lid from pressure cooker according to manufacture directions.
2. Remover oxtail from pressure cooker and add to iron pot then add all remaining substitute ingredients. And turn stove to high heat.
3. Follow same Cooking Instructions as of number 2.
True : Yes, people do drink the sauce while the oxtail is simmering. In fact, we were introduced to the oxtail sauce by our Granny from St. Mary. After the oxtail was cooking for over 1+ hours and simmering down, our Granny would skim the sauce off the oxtail and add to a cup to sip on. She used to say, “The sauce is good for you, it makes you strong.” Drinking the sauce from the oxtail remained a tradition in many Jamaican household.
1. Add water in iron pot to slightly cover oxtail and dry butter beans. Cover pot and turn stove to high heat.
2. Allow water to heat for 10 minutes then add browning sauce to pot.
3. Allow water to boil down to a quarter of original amount. Stir to ensure meat and beans does not stick to the bottom of pot. Allow oxtail and beans to continue cooking.
4. Use a fork to stick meat and beans until the meat is not spongy but tender and folk penetrate beans. Continue this process until oxtail and beans are tender.
5. Add water as needed to ensure liquid gravy does not dry out.
6. Once oxtail is tender and dry beans cooked, let pot simmer over medium heat stirring a few times.
7. ** Once oxtail is tender add butter beans from can based on desired choice.
8. Once oxtail is tender & gravy thickened it’s done.
Note: Oxtail must be cooked before adding pre cooked butter beans from can or cook dry beans along with oxtail.
Pressure Cooker Instructions: (Iron pot is recommended)
1. When using pressure cooker, add water to slightly cover oxtail & dry beans and pressure for 20 to 30 minutes. Remove lid from pressure cooker according to manufacture directions.
2. Remover oxtail from pressure cooker and add to iron pot then add all remaining substitute ingredients. And turn stove to high heat.
3. Follow same Cooking Instructions as of number 2.
True : Yes, people do drink the sauce while the oxtail is simmering. In fact, we were introduced to the oxtail sauce by our Granny from St. Mary. After the oxtail was cooking for over 1+ hours and simmering down, our Granny would skim the sauce off the oxtail and add to a cup to sip on. She used to say, “The sauce is good for you, it makes you strong.” Drinking the sauce from the oxtail remained a tradition in many Jamaican household.
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Aw, this was an exceptionally nice post. Taking
a few minutes and actual effort to make a good article… but what can I say… I procrastinate a whole lot and don’t manage to get anything done.