Recipe: Yummy Ox Cheek and Vegetable Soup

Ox Cheek and Vegetable Soup.

You can have Ox Cheek and Vegetable Soup using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Ox Cheek and Vegetable Soup

1. It's 3 of medium onions, cut into quarters.
2. It's 3 of medium carrots, peeled and cut thickly.
3. You need 3 of stalks, cut thickly.
4. It's 1/2 of of a Swede, peeled and thickly cut.
5. Prepare 2 of Ox cheeks, cut into Bitesize chunks.
6. Prepare to taste of Salt.
7. It's to taste of Ground black pepper.
8. It's 2 of beef stock cubes.
9. You need 2 l of water, plus more as required.
10. Prepare Handful of fresh thyme sprigs.
11. Prepare 150 g of approximately of pearl barley.

Ox Cheek and Vegetable Soup step by step

1. Place the water in a large stock and and bring to the boil. Add the ox cheek one the water is boiling and stir well..
2. Add the carrots, swede, celery, onions and leeks into the pot and bring back to boil..
3. Add the thyme and barley and reduce to a simmer, Season with salt and pepper. Cook for 2 hours to 2.5 hours. May need more or less time, depending how long the meat takes to soften. Add more water if the pot starts to dry out too much..