Oxtail with Red Wine and Vegetables Sauce

(my own recipe)

Serves 4
Ingredients:

• 1,5 kg oxtail
• 2 celery sticks
• 2 carrots
• 2 onions
• 2 shallots
• 600 gr tomatoes
• 150 ml red wine
• 200 ml beef stock (or any other stock)
• 10 sun-dried tomatoes
• 3 garlic cloves
• 1 tsp dried thyme
• 1 tsp dried dill
• 2 tsp dried oregano
• salt and pepper
• fresh flat leaf parsley

Step One

 Preheat the oven to 175 °C. 

Step Two

 Put olive oil on a big pan. Dust the oxtail with flour and fry them on each side until brown. Then, put them aside in the oven-proof pot.

Step Three

 Chop the onions and shallots in slices, the carrots into cubes and slice the celery sticks. Put in the same pan you fried the oxtail, the onion and shallots and fry for 2 min. Then, add all the rest vegetables and fry for another 3-4 min. Add the fried vegetables on top of the oxtail. 
Step Four
 Blend the tomatoes and put them in a pan with the chopped sun dried tomatoes, dill, oregano and thyme. Let them simmer for 5 min. Add the finely chopped garlic, salt and pepper, red wine, beef stock and put the mixture in the oven-proof pot.

Step Five

 Close the pot with its lid and put it in the oven for 2 hour  at 175°C.  Take it out of the oven, add some fresh parsley and put it back in for another 1 hour and 30 min at 200°C. Garnish it with mashed potatoes or Mămăligă and sprinkle some fresh chopped parsley on top.