How to cook pork tongue if you bought this by-product? This delicacy requires a special approach.
In order to know how to cook pork tongue, you need to consider that this is a rather fatty product. And also the fact that it needs to be boiled beforehand. A very successful combination of this offal with vegetables, eggs, herbs.
How to cook boiled pork tongue in jelly?
Soak the offal weighing about a kilogram in cold water for several hours. Then rinse, cook for two hours with carrots, onions, peppers and salt. Before you cook pork tongue, it does not need to be peeled. Just cut off excess fat and veins from the blunt edge of the product. After boiling, the peel is easily removed by dipping the tongue with ice water. Cut off any irregularities at the root and try to give the product a cylindrical shape, aligning it slightly with a knife.
Cut into neat slices, put on a dish (it should be deep enough, because the tongue still needs to be filled with broth). You can decorate with carrots, peas, favorite vegetables and herbs with stars - in jelly it will all harden and will look very aesthetically pleasing. Now you can do the broth. You can take chicken or beef, at your discretion. Broth is best clarified with egg white. Boil it first and prepare the egg. Separate the yolk and set aside. Whisk the protein with a drop of vinegar and pour into the broth. Stir. Turn off the heat and cover. After fifteen minutes, the broth with the resulting protein flakes should be traced through a double gauze.
Before you cook pork tongue, you must first make jelly. Dissolve gelatin in the broth (fifteen grams for every two glasses of liquid). If it is normal, first soak for forty minutes until completely dissolved. If soluble - dilute immediately in a hot broth. You can put chopped garlic for soaking, this will give the dish a flavor. Only then will you have to strain the liquid again. Pour the broth with gelatin onto a dish with chopped tongue, put in a cold place to solidify. Serve with horseradish and mustard. A dish with a jellied tongue can be dipped in hot water for a short while and the jelly can be removed from the mold.
How to cook pork tongue in marinade
You will need two medium-sized languages. Each approximately seven hundred grams. Soak them in cold water for one hour, then rinse, separate the cores and films. Pour tongue with fresh water, boil. Drain the first broth and repeat the procedure. Cook for about two hours, add spices and salt at the very end. Is the language ready, can be determined by plugging the plug into the thickest part of the product, it should go in easily. Peel under cold water, cool. Bake three red paprika in the oven to tan. Put the vegetables in a closed pan or bag for a while, this will help peel them. Then cut into strips and mix with sliced tongue. Add three cloves of garlic and pour the marinade from the juice from the baked peppers with soy sauce, vegetable oil, nine percent vinegar, sugar and salt. Serve as a cold appetizer in a day .