Meaning
One of the most celebrated Jamaican dishes — the tail of the ox (cow), browned and slow-braised for hours with butter beans (broad beans), until the meat is meltingly tender and the sauce rich and glossy. Served with rice and peas, oxtail is a Sunday-dinner and special-occasion favourite, prized for its deep flavour despite once being a cheap 'off-cut'.
Examples
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Sunday dinner a oxtail an rice an peas.
Sunday dinner is oxtail with rice and peas.
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Di oxtail cook dung till it fall off di bone.
The oxtail cooked down until it fell off the bone.
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Oxtail an beans, di sauce rich.
Oxtail and beans, the sauce is rich.
Origin
From 'oxtail' (cow's tail) braised with butter beans; a celebrated braise. See [[cow-foot]], [[rice-and-peas]].
How it’s used
Slow-braised oxtail with butter beans; a Sunday-dinner favourite. See [[cow-foot]], [[rice-and-peas]].