| Total: | 1 hr 5 min |
| Prep: | 10 min |
| Cook: | 55 min |
| Yield: | 4 to 6 servings |
Ingredients
- Vegetable oil
- Salt and pepper
- 3 pounds combined beef shank and oxtail pieces
- 2 onions, quartered
- 2 ribs celery, halved
- 2 carrots, halved
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1 bunch parsley
- 1 teaspoon black peppercorns
- 2 quarts water
Instructions
- Place pressure cooker over high heat. Oil and salt the oxtail and shank pieces then sear in batches. Add remaining ingredients and cover with water, being careful not to fill above the cookers “maximum fill” line. (If your pressure cooker does not have a water line, fill the pot 2/3 full). Bring to a boil and skim off any foam that gathers at the surface. Cover and lock lid. Once pressure builds up inside the cooker, reduce the heat so that you barely hear hissing from the pot. Cook for 50 minutes.
- Release pressure using your cookers release device (read that manual) or cool the cooker by running cold water over the lid for 5 minutes. Carefully opening the lid and strain squeezing the solids before feeding to the compost pile, or the dogs. Strain through a fine sieve or several layers of cheesecloth. Season and serve or use as a base for other soup recipes.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 4 servings |
| Calories | 59 |
| Total Fat | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 1 g |
| Carbohydrates | 1 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Sugar | 0 g |
| Protein | 6 g |
| Cholesterol | 14 mg |
| Sodium | 154 mg |
Reviews
It is an extra step but it pays off in depth of flavor, I always roast the meat, bones, and vegetables in the oven before putting them in the pressure cooker or stockpot.
I agree with another review. Please do not feed any of the left over scraps to the dogs. Also I’m pretty sure your not supposed to put animal products in your compost. I’ve read only to put plant based materials in your compost.
Don’t feed the strained material to the dog, or your cat either. Onions and garlic are extremely dangerous. Don’t take it from me, call your vet.
Made this in my electric cooks essentials P.C. turned out great, it doesn’t have a salty bouillon taste. Used it in beef barley soup, used leftover meat. The final soup had a deep beef taste without the salt.
I like this broth and have made it several times. Perhaps “savory” is the best word to describe it…it certainly does not have an overwhelming flavor, just right in my opinion. I’ve tried it with a couple of femur bones and the flavor was stronger, but I don’t like the earthy marrow flavor, but some I suspect are expecting that.
And for those reviewers who ended up with a bland, weak broth, the problem is probably the pressure cooker. I heard about a pressure test that was done on 11 pressure cookers: 3 of them never reached anywhere near the optimal 15psi. This is why I love the Kuhn Rikon pressure cookers that W and Alton dismiss as too expensive in the show… they essentially have a pressure gauge so you always know what pressure you’re at. They’re a great investment!
This recipe seems more like a stock than a broth, so it shouldn’t have such a beefy taste so much as feel good in the mouth and be a base to build a soup on.
I followed directions to the letter. At the end of it all, the broth is only a mild beef taste. I must admit I held back on extra salt as I really wanted to try a beef broth that wasn’t salty. Now, what else can I do with this broth? Besides use it as stock for something else or add noodles? Any other suggestions?
Alton is using a hard anodized Hawkins Futura pressure cooker. Hawkins Cookers Limited is an Indian pressure cooker and cookware manufacturer. They have 10 different lines of varying sizes, for a total of 57 different pressure cookers. I think their top of the line pressure cooker is the Hawkins Futura Stainless Steel pressure cooker, which I think was the pressure cooker that flustered Alton at the end of his encounter with ‘W’. The 2nd generation pressure cooker that ‘W’ described was a Kuhn Rikon. You can get the Hawkins Futura at Amazon and many other resellers. It comes in 8 different sizes, but some don’t appear available in the US.
What kind of pressure cooker was that and where can I find one?
What an total waste of great oxtail ! We eat the oxtail here in hawaii.