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Ingredient 32Meat & protein
Ingredient 32 · Meat & protein

Oxtail

Beef tail, sold jointed into rounds. Each round is a vertebra wrapped in muscle, tendon and fat. It gives more gelatin per kilogram than almost any other cut, so it thickens and sets a braising liquid with no starch. Buy it jointed.

Item no. 32
Aisle Meat & protein
Usual unit piece
Recipes 2
Also called
ox tailOchsenschwanzbeef tail

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Recipes using it

two
Recipe

South African Pepper Steak Pie

Shin, oxtail and tendon braised in merlot and set in their own gelatin, frozen as pucks and baked in individual puff pastry pies.

South African · Second revision · 22 OCT 2026
Preparation

Demi-Glace

A 48–72 hour reduction, done properly

French · First revision · 13 OCT 2026
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