Many people love beef tongue for its pleasant peculiar taste and tender meat. It can be prepared in many ways: stew, bake, smoke. It makes an excellent soup, aspic, roast, salad. But its most amazing quality is that it is good in itself - just a boiled language, without unnecessary seasonings and “frills”.
It will completely replace sausage, while sandwiches with a tongue will be much more useful, because it is a nutritious protein product with a high content of B vitamins and iron. It is not for nothing that he is considered a delicacy.
Most housewives hesitate to cook boiled language, expecting that this is too troublesome occupation. But, as they say, it is worth trying only once, and everything will not be so scary. It should be said that for cooking almost all dishes, the tongue needs to be boiled. Therefore, the main thing is to master this process.
So, as an independent dish or as the basis for delicious snacks and hot dishes, we need boiled beef tongue . The recipe is very straightforward.
From the products we take the whole language, two onions, pepper, salt and bay leaf. Optionally, add carrots, parsley roots, garlic.
First, soak the tongue for a couple of hours to make it easier to clean. After this time, we take out and with a knife we scrape off all the dirt from the surface of the skin. Then rinse thoroughly in cold water.
Now you need to pick up a pot. It is recommended to cook the whole language, so you need to take a container so that it fits completely into it and is covered with water. We put the pan with the tongue and water on the fire, let it boil, reduce the gas and begin to descale. When there is no foam left, cover the container with a lid and continue cooking. The approximate cooking time varies from 2 to 3 hours, depending on the size of the tongue and the age of the cow.
At this time, we chop onions and other vegetables and spices, if we decided to add them. In about 30 minutes until ready, open the pan, once again remove the scum, put the cooked vegetables and spices, salt and pepper. Cover with a lid and keep on fire the remaining half an hour.
When the boiled tongue is ready, put it in a dish or a large plate. Allow to cool so as not to get burned during cleaning, then remove the skin and cut off fat and other unnecessary formations.
If we want to get a simple snack, cut the boiled tongue like a sausage, decorate with herbs and serve with horseradish.
In addition, you can cook various salads, snacks and even hotter. And we will make a popular aspic from beef tongue, which has long become a classic dish.
In addition to the tongue, you need to cook the broth, boiled carrot and egg, canned peas, parsley and dill, gelatin.
You can use the broth that turned out after boiling the tongue, only you need to strain it, then add gelatin to it and let it brew for an hour. After that, put on fire and keep until the gelatin is completely dissolved, but do not boil.
We cut the boiled tongue, egg and carrots, put them in the jellied molds, add green peas, dill or parsley, pour the broth with gelatin, which we let cool beforehand, and place in the refrigerator.
It should be said that the language is recommended to be included in the menu of children and pregnant women. And it’s not for nothing that beef tongue is related to dietary food. Its calorie content is not too high, moreover, it has a lot of vitamins, zinc and iron. The level of cholesterol depends on the method of preparation. So, boiled tongue contains no more than 100 mg per 100 grams of product.