Ingredients
The following ingredients have 4 Servings
- 750g oxtail pieces, cut at joints
- ½ cup vegetable oil, for frying
- ½ small red onion, finely sliced
- ½ small carrot, finely sliced
- 60g kombu (edible kelp seaweed, also known as konbu)
- 15g bonito flakes
- 2 spring onions, finely sliced into rounds mint leaves
- chilli oil
- <b>For the wontons</b>
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 garlic clove, finely diced
- 1cm piece ginger, finely diced
- 100g fresh shiitake mushrooms, chopped
- 2 tsp Shaoxing wine
- ½ tsp castor sugar
- 3 tsp light soy sauce
- 50g tinned water chestnuts, chopped
- 20 wonton wrappers
- paste (made from flour and water) to seal wontons
Instruction
- <p><b>1. </b>Preheat oven to 180°C. Roast oxtail on a lined oven tray until golden brown, about 1½ hours, turning after about 45 minutes.</p> <p><b>2.</b> Heat oil in a small saucepan and deep-fry onion and carrot, stirring often until golden, about 6-8 minutes. Do not let vegetables get too dark or the stock will be bitter. Drain on paper towel.</p> <p><b>3.</b> Put kombu and 2 litres of water in a large pot and heat to make a stock. Just before boiling point, add ½ cup cold water and remove kombu.</p> <p><b>4.</b> Bring stock back to the boil on a low heat. When almost boiling, add bonito flakes, remove from heat and allow bonito to sink to the bottom of the stock. Strain through muslin.</p> <p><b>5.</b> Put roast oxtail, carrot and onion into a pot with stock and simmer for 4 hours. Remove oxtail, strain stock through muslin and set aside. Remove meat from bones and chop.</p> <p><b>6.</b> For the wontons, heat oil in a frying pan until hot. Fry garlic and ginger until fragrant, then add mushrooms and cook until they wilt. Add wine, sugar, and soy, then transfer to a bowl and mix in water chestnuts and oxtail meat. Check seasoning.</p> <p><b>7.</b> Put 1 tbsp of mixture in the centre of each wonton wrapper. Brush 2 edges of lightly with flour-and-water paste. Fold in half to enclose and seal edges.</p> <p><b>8.</b> Reheat broth and skim off impurities. Blanch wontons in gently boiling water and share among four large bowls. Pour over broth and garnish with spring onions, a few mint leaves and chilli oil to taste.</p>