Stewed Oxtails

Tlaxhuayajú

Preparation info
  • Makes

    4

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Zarela's Veracruz: Mexico's Simplest Cuisine

By Zarela Martínez

Published 2001

  • About

This is one of several fine recipes that i was given at the Papantla chapter of INSEN, Mexico’s National Institute for Old Age (Instituto Nacional de la Senilitud), a remarkable organization that, among other projects, has a program which allows a disappearing generation to pass on local cooking traditions. Noemí Castro Domínguez demonstrated this traditional Totonac Indian dish with the characteristic local accent of mint.

For best results, start the cooking a day ahead. Thi