Best Oxtail Soup With Onions And Barley Recipes

LINDA'S OXTAIL AND BARLEY SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil in a heavy frying pan over medium-high heat. Saute oxtails in the hot oil, turning until browned on all sides, about 3 minutes per side. Drain on paper towels.
• Transfer oxtails to a large Dutch oven or soup pot. Add water, bouillon, sazon, parsley, garlic, and pepper. Bring to a boil. Lower heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, until tender, about 1 hour. Add more water if necessary.
• Remove oxtails to a plate to cool. Skim the grease off the surface of the soup, using a gravy separator if desired. Add potatoes, tomatoes, parsnip, mushrooms, onion, barley, celery, carrot, and bay leaves to the soup. Bring to a boil; lower heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, about 20 minutes.
• While the vegetables are cooking, cut as much meat as possible off the oxtail bones. Add the chopped meat and the bones back to the soup. Simmer for another 20 minutes. Remove bones and bay leaves from the soup before serving.

RICH BEEF BARLEY SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a large pot or Dutch oven, such as Le Creuset. Add the oxtails, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper and cook over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes until browned all over. Remove the oxtails with a slotted spoon and reserve.
• Add the leeks, carrots, onion, celery, and garlic to the fat in the pot and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes, until the vegetables start to brown. Tie the thyme sprigs together with kitchen string and add to the pot along with the bay leaves. Return the oxtails to the pot and add the broth, 1 teaspoon of salt, and 1 teaspoon of pepper. Raise the heat and bring to a boil. Lower the heat, cover, and simmer for 1 hour. Discard the thyme bundle and the bay leaves, and skim off the fat.
• Meanwhile, bring 4 cups of water to a boil and add the barley. Simmer uncovered for 30 minutes, drain, and set aside.
• When the soup is ready, add the barley and cook the soup for another 15 or 20 minutes, until the barley is tender. Depending on the saltiness of the stock, the soup might need another teaspoon of salt and some pepper. Serve hot, with or without the oxtails.

SLOW COOKER OXTAIL SOUP

Steps:

• Heat butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add oxtail and onion; cook until oxtail is until browned, 5 to 7 minutes per side. Transfer oxtail and onion to a slow cooker.
• Pour wine into the skillet and bring to a boil while scraping the browned bits of food off the bottom of the skillet with a wooden spoon. Pour wine mixture into slow cooker; add water to cover.
• Set slow cooker to Low; cook soup for 8 hours. Add potatoes, carrots, celery, and green beans; cook soup for 4 hours more.
• Cool soup slightly; refrigerate until fat has risen to top and solidified, about 1 hour. Scoop off fat; stir in tomatoes. Reheat soup on stove before serving.

OXTAIL BARLEY SOUP

Steps:

• Over medium heat, brown the oxtails on all sides. Remove to a plate with a paper towel on it.
• Remove all but 2 tablespoons of the rendered fat. Add the onions, salt, pepper, paprika and garlic. Saute until the onions are translucent.
• Add back the oxtails and the water. Bring to a boil. Skim off any foam that forms.
• Add in the celery, barley, bay leaf and pepper, bring to back to a boil and simmer for an hour.
• Add in the carrots, yam and tomatoes, bring back to a boil and simmer for another hour.
• Check for seasoning, and then pull out the oxtails, remove meat from bones and trim fat. Return meat to soup, turn off and let sit on burner for 10 to 15 minutes.
• Defat the soup either by skimming off the top or by chilling and pulling off the solidified fat.

SLOW COOKER (CROCK POT) OXTAIL BARLEY SOUP

Steps:

• Saute celery and onions till tender.
• In slow cooker, add water, oxtail, potatoes, carrots, peppercorns, bay leaves, celery, onion, and salt. If using regular barley, add at this time too.
• Cover and simmer for 8- 10 hours, until meat is tender, potatoes and carrots are cooked, and barley is tender.
• When meat is tender, take meat off bones and return to broth.
• Bring broth to boil and add quick-cooking barley and tomatoes.
• Cover and cook for 15 minutes or until barley is tender.
• Note: Beef shanks, neck or other bones with meat remaining on them may be used in place of oxtail.