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&nbsp;wontons</b>
  • 1&nbsp;tbsp&nbsp;vegetable oil
  • 1 garlic clove, finely diced
  • 1cm piece ginger, finely diced
  • 100g fresh shiitake mushrooms, chopped
  • 2 tsp&nbsp;Shaoxing&nbsp;wine
  • ½ tsp castor sugar
  • 3 tsp light soy sauce
  • 50g tinned water chestnuts, chopped
  • 20&nbsp;wonton&nbsp;wrappers
  • paste (made from flour and water) to seal&nbsp;wontons

Instruction

  • <p><b>1.&nbsp;</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>&nbsp;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>&nbsp;Put&nbsp;kombu&nbsp;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&nbsp;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>&nbsp;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>&nbsp;For the&nbsp;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>&nbsp;Put 1&nbsp;tbsp&nbsp;of mixture in the centre of each&nbsp;wonton&nbsp;wrapper. Brush 2 edges of lightly with flour-and-water paste. Fold in half to enclose and seal edges.</p> <p><b>8.</b>&nbsp;Reheat broth and skim off impurities. Blanch&nbsp;wontons&nbsp;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>