Easy Oxtail Soup

This is my first recipe while making an attempt at Weight Watchers along with my wife. There are many oxtail soup recipes out there, this one is extremely easy, and done in less than an hour with a pressure cooker.

Ingredients

• 2-3/4 lb. raw oxtail
• 2 packets Won Ton instant soup mix (Dragonfly brand)
• 1 small head nappa cabbage
• little bunch of cilantro
• A few stalks of green onion
• 1 tablespoon sesame oil

Directions

Put 1 tablespoon of sesame oil in the pressure cooker, and heat up hot. Brown the oxtails.

While the oxtails are browning in the pot, mix a package of won ton instant soup mix into 3 cups of warm water. Pour the soup mix into the pot. Mix up another package of won ton soup mix into 3 more cups of water, and add that in there, too. Chop up the green onion and cilantro and toss that in the pot.

Close up the pressure cooker, and following the usual processes, cook under pressure for 30 minutes. Watch the temperature so that not too much steam escapes. You want the pot to be pressurized, but you do not want all the liquid to steam out.

After 30 minutes, release pressure using the cold water release method. Chop up 1 small head of nappa cabbage, and place it on top of the soup, avoiding the urge to stir it in.

Close the pressure cooker back up, and return to the stove. Cook for an additional 10 minutes under pressure, and cool using the cold water release method.

Now you got some pretty good oxtail soup without too much effort.

Nutritional Info

I don't have much nutritional info for this soup, as getting useful information on oxtail is pretty much impossible. Lots of the oxtail is bone, so weight alone isn't a good measure. Figuring out how much meat comes off the bone isn't easy, either. The Weight Watchers site shows "Oxtail Soup, Hawaiian (1 cup)" as 7 points. So, that's what I'll say for mine.