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Meat & protein · two recipes
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
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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 2026Preparation