🔥 Dominican-Style Oxtail Recipe | Rabo Encendido Made Easy

red wine

🥗Healthier: grape juice

💰Cheaper: white wine

Grape juice provides sweetness without alcohol.

beef broth

🥗Healthier: vegetable broth

💰Cheaper: water with bouillon

Vegetable broth reduces calories while maintaining flavor.

Marinate oxtail for at least 3 to 4 hours with time, orange, garlic paste, Dominican oregano, cooking base, cumin, black pepper, chicken bouillon, salsa singles, Worcestershire sauce, and light soy sauce.

Chop red pepper and scotch bonnet pepper, adding a little of the scotch bonnet for spice.

Caramelize sugar in a pan until it turns a nice color, then add the oxtail to brown.

Add tomato paste to the browned oxtail and deglaze the pan with red and white wine.

Pour in water to penetrate the flavor of the meat, ensuring the oxtail is submerged.

Add half of the chopped peppers to the pot and reserve the other half for later.

Add more water as needed during cooking and adjust seasoning with salt later.

Add vinegar and cilantro towards the end of cooking, about 10 to 15 minutes before serving.

Serve the oxtail with rice and beans.

Cooking Techniques

Equipment Needed

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