Oxtail Stew and Creamy Samp
🍽️ 4 Servings ⏲️Prep: 20 min 👩🍳Cook time:+-3 hours
Ingredients
- 1kg Oxtail
- Cooking Oil
- Flour
- Salt
- Pepper
- 2 Onions
- 2 Carrots
- Fresh Thyme
- Tamato Paste
- Curry Powder
- Tomatoes (canned/fresh)
- White Sugar
- Red Wine (optional)
- Beef Stock
- Dried Samp
- Bay Leaves
- Cream
Method:
➤ Place the samp into a bowl, then pour over the boiling water and leave to stand and soak for 30 minutes. You can also soak the samp for 24 hours, using cold water.
➤ Rinse the soaked samp, then place into a pot. Add the bay leaves, salt and cover with cold water.
➤ Bring to the boil, then turn down to a simmer and cook for 1 hour, checking halfway through to top up the water if necessary.
➤ Dust oxtail in flour, salt and pepper.
➤ Heat oil in a pot, and then brown the oxtail in batches before removing from the pan and setting aside.
➤ To the same pot, add onions, carrots, bay leaf and thyme then sauté until vegetables begin to soften and brown.
➤ Add tomato paste and curry powder, then cook for a minute.
➤ Add tomatoes (tinned/fresh), sugar, wine (optional) and stock then bring to a simmer.
➤ Return oxtail to the pot, then cover with a lid and simmer gently for 2 ½ hours or until the meat is tender.
➤ Give the samp a stir, the kernels will be softer, but not quite cooked through and the starch will have come out of the samp and thickened the mixture. Add more water to cover, then simmer for another 30 minutes.
➤ Check if the samp is cooked through by tasting a few kernels (if they are tender, then its ready) or mash a few kernels with a fork, if they mash easily then the samp is cooked through.
➤Add the cream and season generously with salt then simmer for 5 minutes.