Oxtail with Cassava and steamed pumpkin

Oxtail with Cassava and steamed pumpkin

ingredients:

2 pounds oxtail with enough meat, cut the joints, remove excess fat.
Use only big parties
1/2 cup of corn oil
1 liter of water for cooking.

Follow up:

1 pound of cooked cassava in one liter of water

Other Ingredients:
½ pound of grated onion,
6 skinned tomatoes without seeds or a can of sauce ready, diluted with 3 cans of tin
1 red pepper (optional)
1 cup (tea) of chopped parsley and chives,
1 leek cut into banking part only thinly sliced, chopped 2 stalks celery, sliced ​​(optional)

seasonings:

1 tbsp (tablespoons) of salt,
1 teaspoon (tsp) or (soup) of grated ginger
1/2 teaspoon (coffee) crushed bay or 2 bay leaves
1 lady finger pepper chopped without seeds.

steamed pumpkin:
1 pound neck pumpkin cut into chunks
1 medium onion, chopped
1 teaspoon (tsp) salt
1 cup of hot water or the necessary

How to Prepare steamed pumpkin:

Put 2 tablespoons oil in skillet, fry an onion until wilted, add pumpkin, salt, sauté leave dripping hot water, so that is cooked without much broth.

How to Prepare the sauce:

Fry the leeks with celery, add the onion, bell pepper and seasonings.

Separately fry the tail until nicely golden. Add tomatoes or tomato sauce industrialized, already diluted with water. become a sauté finally boiling water.

Leave on heat for a few minutes, then put everything into the pot of great pressure and cook for 40 'minutes or until meat is tender.

Allow to cool in the pan to finish cooking.

Turn off the heat and when to stop releasing the steam open and check how is the flesh he needs to put more hot water, turn the heat to cook.

Ten minutes before end of cooking add the spices of another pot.
After the pass the cooked meat with the sauce to a large saucepan, combine pre-cooked cassava pieces, leave the fire until it is all well cooked.
If you need to add more hot water.

"If you use industrialized sauce, bring the fire with 3 cans of water until reduced by half, place 1 tablespoon (soup) of sugar or 1 carrot
Before cooking the sauce add sugar or carrot serves to take the acidity.

Serving the tail, with white rice, steamed pumpkin, watercress salad with cherry tomatoes.

Can serve oxtail with polenta or mashed potatoes.