Oxtail Hot Pot

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Ingredients

• 1 kg oxtail · or beef bone, shank, or meatballs for braising
• 2 white onions · keep 1 whole, dice the other
• 1 large knob ginger · peeled
• 4 cloves garlic · pounded
• 3 stalks lemongrass · cut into 3 cm pieces and pounded
• 3 star anise
• 1 stick cinnamon
• 1 white radish (daikon) · peeled and cut into chunks
• 2 carrots · 2 to 3, peeled and chunked
• 200 g taro · peeled and cut into chunks
• 1 lotus root · small, peeled and sliced
• 200 g enoki or shiitake mushrooms
• 300 g tofu · cubed
• celery, water spinach, or napa cabbage · your pick, roughly chopped
• 400 g noodles or rice vermicelli
• 1 tsp chilli powder · or to taste
• 2 tbsp fish sauce · plus more to taste
• 1 tbsp salt · plus more to taste
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 1 tbsp chicken powder · or to taste
• 3 tbsp rice wine · for cleaning the oxtail and for cooking

Prep first do it all at once

Get every cut and measure out of the way before any heat. Then cooking is pure motion.

• Pound the garlic and lemongrass, then cut the lemongrass into 3 cm pieces
• Slice the ginger
• Cut the daikon, carrot, taro, and lotus root into chunks
• Cube the tofu
• Slice the leafy greens
• Keep one onion whole and dice the other

Method

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1. Clean the oxtail with ginger, rice wine, salt, and water. Rinse a few times with clean water until it runs clear.
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2. Fry the lemongrass, garlic, ginger, chilli powder, cinnamon, and star anise until fragrant. Add the oxtail, splash in rice wine, and season with 1 tbsp salt, 1 tbsp sugar, and 2 tbsp fish sauce. Stir-fry about 5 minutes.
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3. Simmer Move everything to a big pot. Add 4 L water and the whole onion. Cook 2 hours on medium heat, skimming the scum off the top. A pressure cooker needs only about 1 hour.
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4. Build Remove the whole spices. Ladle some broth into a serving pot. Add the hard veg first (daikon, carrot, taro, lotus root), then the tofu, celery, mushrooms, and diced onion.
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5. Cook the noodles or vermicelli separately and divide into bowls.
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6. Serve with fermented tofu sauce or chilli sauce on the side. Dip, slurp, enjoy.
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