{"id":234,"date":"2020-08-31T03:21:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T03:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/recipes.thewolfmans.com\/?p=234"},"modified":"2020-09-09T08:08:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T08:08:37","slug":"southern-smothered-oxtails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes.thewolfmans.com\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Southern smothered oxtails"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2 1\/2&nbsp;pounds&nbsp;beef oxtails<\/li><li>1 1\/4&nbsp;cups&nbsp;all purpose flour<\/li><li>2&nbsp;tbsp&nbsp;worcestershire sauce<\/li><li>2&nbsp;tsp&nbsp;kosher salt<\/li><li>1&nbsp;tsp&nbsp;freshly cracked or ground black pepper<\/li><li>3\/4&nbsp;cup&nbsp;vegetable oil<\/li><li>3&nbsp;cups&nbsp;beef broth OR water<\/li><li>1&nbsp;large yellow onion&nbsp;sliced<\/li><li>3&nbsp;cloves&nbsp;of fresh garlic&nbsp;minced<\/li><li>* more salt &amp; pepper for taste<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Season the oxtails with 2 tsp kosher salt, and 1 tsp black pepper.<\/li><li>Drizzle the worcestershire sauce all over the oxtails, then toss the oxtails to make sure that they are coated.<\/li><li>Next, sprinkle 1\/4 cup of flour all over the oxtails, and make sure that the oxtails are coated with the flour.<\/li><li>Next pour the vegetable oil into a large pan, and place the pan over medium heat.<\/li><li>Once the oil is nice and hot, add the oxtails in, and brown them.<\/li><li>Once the oxtails are nice and brown remove them from the pan, and put them in the slow cooker.<\/li><li>Return back to the pan with the hot oil.<\/li><li>If they are burnt pieces in the pan, pour out the oil, strain, clean the pan, then pour the strained oil back into the pan.<\/li><li>Start adding the remaining flour into the pan, but only a little bit at a time.<\/li><li>Whisk continuously.<\/li><li>Once the flour is brown, and resembles &#8221; chunky peanut butter&#8221;, slowly pour in the beef broth or water.<\/li><li>Whisk while you pour!<\/li><li>Make sure everything is lump free, then turn the heat from medium to high.<\/li><li>Once the gravy reaches a full boil, reduce the heat to medium, and add in the sliced onions, and garlic.<\/li><li>Stir the gravy, and do a taste test.<\/li><li>Add as much salt &amp; pepper that you think you may need.<\/li><li>Turn the heat off, and pour the gravy into the slow cooker covering the oxtails.<\/li><li>Make sure that the oxtails are nicely covered with gravy, then set the slow cooker on high.<\/li><li>Let cook for 8 hours.<\/li><li>Once done serve with mashed potatoes, rice, or whatever you&#8217;d like.<\/li><li>Enjoy!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 1\/2&nbsp;pounds&nbsp;beef oxtails 1 1\/4&nbsp;cups&nbsp;all purpose flour 2&nbsp;tbsp&nbsp;worcestershire sauce 2&nbsp;tsp&nbsp;kosher salt 1&nbsp;tsp&nbsp;freshly cracked or ground black pepper 3\/4&nbsp;cup&nbsp;vegetable oil 3&nbsp;cups&nbsp;beef broth OR water 1&nbsp;large yellow &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beef","category-entrees","category-wolfman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.thewolfmans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.thewolfmans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.thewolfmans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.thewolfmans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.thewolfmans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.thewolfmans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.thewolfmans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.thewolfmans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.thewolfmans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.thewolfmans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.thewolfmans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}