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Rabo de Toro Estofado
Rocio Delgado Ortiz
Head chef, Meson El Adarve, Cordoba, ES
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Rabo de Toro Estofado

5 h total55 min hands-onServes 4Medium

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Four hours in Montilla wine until the meat leaves the bone without being asked.

WHAT YOU GET

  • The chef's hidden note — the technique no cookbook prints
  • Every component built from scratch, each with its own spec
  • Films on choosing and judging the produce before you buy it
  • Gross and net gram weights for every ingredient, per portion
  • Time and temperature at each stage, as run in the restaurant
  • A photo at every step that can go wrong
  • Substitutions for anything hard to find where you live
  • What usually goes wrong, and what to do about it

Yours for good once bought. Updates from the chef included.

BEFORE YOU BUY

Equipment
Heavy casserole, Fine sieve, Tongs
Allergens
Sulphites
Method
22 steps · 16 photographed · 4 filmed
Components
3 made from scratch
Films
3, 15 min

3 RECIPES INSIDE THIS RECIPE

Each with its own weights, steps and timings

The sauce, the cure, the dough, the dressing — a restaurant makes these itself, and so will you. Every one below is a full sub-recipe: its own ingredient list, its own method, its own yield and shelf life. Nothing says «use shop-bought».

Browning stage

Film

Oxtail pieces dried, seasoned and coloured hard in olive oil in batches.

Everything the sauce tastes of is made here. Crowd the pan and the tail steams grey, and no amount of wine repairs it.

  • Oxtail000 g
  • Plain flour000 g
Steps
4
Time
35 min
Hands-on
35 min

Makes 1.5 kg browned oxtail

No — straight into the braise

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Wine reduction and braise

The vegetables softened in the browning fat, deglazed with Montilla, then the tail returned and covered.

Reducing the wine before the liquid goes in takes the alcohol edge out; skip it and the sauce stays sharp for four hours.

  • Onion000 g
  • Carrot000 g
Steps
8
Time
4.3 h
Hands-on
20 min

Makes Serves 4 generously

Best made a day ahead and reheated

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Strained sauce

Film

The braising vegetables pushed through a sieve and reduced back onto the meat.

Left whole they read as stew. Sieved, the same vegetables become a sauce that holds on a spoon.

  • Braising liquid000 g
  • Braised vegetables000 g
Steps
4
Time
25 min
Hands-on
15 min

Makes 600 ml sauce

Same day as the braise

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WEIGHED

INGREDIENTS

A taste of the list · the rest locked

A few ingredients to show you what the dish is built on. Every one on the full list carries a gross and a net weight per portion, and a note on what you can swap it for where you live.

  • Oxtail000 g
  • Montilla-Moriles or dry oloroso000 g
  • Onion000 g
  • Carrot000 g
  • Leek000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 15 min

Most of what goes wrong is decided at the counter, before you cook anything. These are filmed by the chef: what to buy, how to tell it is good, and how to set your own kitchen up for it.

CHOOSING5:00

Asking the butcher for oxtail, and which end to take

TECHNIQUE6:00

How dark is too dark when browning

KIT4:00

Casserole material and why it changes the timing

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 22 STEPS

16 photographed · 4 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 16 of the 22 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 4 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: knowing when to stop browning — step 13 of 22.

  1. 01

    Read the whole method before you start, then weigh everything out. Every timing below assumes the next ingredient is already within reach.

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  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. + 16 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

3 things Rocio Delgado Ortiz watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.

  1. 01

    Chilling overnight to lift the fat off clean

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Testing doneness with a skewer, not a clock

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    What to do if the sauce breaks

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

How dark to take the browning before it turns bitter, and the point at which the sauce is reduced enough to coat but not to break.

Written by Rocio Delgado Ortiz. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

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NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

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