Cooking our Nutritious yet Convenient Oxtail Soup at Home

We love oxtail soup, and it is a must-order whenever we dine in a Korean restaurant.

Oxtail soup is a pretty time-consuming to make. Hence I had only attempted cooking the soup at home once. It was without much satisfaction because the beef did not turn out as tender as I wanted, and the soup was not milky nor flavorful.

Today, we enjoyed the soup every week, straight from our own kitchen. Don’t be mistaken. We did not order via grab, nor use instant beef powder. We use real oxtail bone, and the process is not tedious. The trick? Use a slow cooker!

Check out our super simple recipe here.

Ingredients

Oxtail 500g

Water 1.5mil

1 large radish, peeled

2 cloves of Garlic, crushed

Spring Onion (optional)

Method

Starting preparing at least one day before. If you are preparing the soup for dinner, start your preparation work no later than 5 pm.

Wash the oxtail thoroughly. Remove excess fat and loose pieces of bones.

Fill the slow cooker with water and add the oxtail chunks. My slow cooker has a smaller capacity, so I typically add about 1 litre of water for a start.

Turn on high heat and leave the slow cooker to do the magic overnight. Depending on how hot your slow cooker gets, you may wish to turn down the heat to low before going to bed. For me, I can keep my slow cooker on high heat overnight.

Slow-cooking beef broth for such a long time will release the collagen and minerals from the beef bone into the soup. These nutrients will help to strength our immune system and reduce joint inflammation.

2 to 3 hours before dinner, transfer the soup and the ingredients into a soup pot and continue to simmer. In my case, I need to add more water as well as I added only one litre of water the night before—my family of 6 savours this soup.

Cut the peeled radish into chunks, roughly 2 cm thick, and add into the pot. Add the crushed garlic for additional flavour and its wholesome benefits. Simmer till dinner time.

Add spring onion, salt and fish sauce before serving.