Beef tongue is a delicious food product, from which you can cook a lot of various interesting salads, appetizers, hot, etc. The pickled language is also very tasty and aromatic.
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Beef tongue in a European wine marinade
To prepare, take the tongue, 1 medium-sized onion, 2 lavrushki, 3-5 black pepper peas, 2 clove inflorescences, salt. For marinade, prepare 50 ml of wine vinegar and lemon juice, 300 ml of pink or red strong wine. Madeira, nutmeg, sherry or vermouth are perfect. Also add 3 cloves of garlic, 1 hot red pepper, basil, parsley, rosemary and coriander. Dill should not be used.
Take the tongue, clean it thoroughly with a brush, rinse well under warm water. Pour water into the pan, put the tongue, peeled and halved onion, cloves, pepper, lavrushka, add salt to taste, mix. Put on the stove over medium heat, cook for 2.5-3.5 hours.
Please note that pork tongue is cooked for 1.5-2 hours.
When the tongue is ready, remove it from the pan, put it for a quarter of an hour in cold water. After that, carefully remove the top layer of skin from it. Cut the meat across into slices of the thickness you need. The tongue is ready for pickling.
In a special mortar, crush red pepper with garlic, salt. If there is no mortar on the farm, simply finely chop the ingredients. Put everything in a container, pour in lemon juice, vinegar and wine, add chopped herbs, mix everything thoroughly. Put the tongue in the composition, stir again, put everything in the refrigerator, let stand for 5-8 hours. Serve with a side dish, such as pasta, boiled potatoes, asparagus, rice, fresh vegetable salad.
Far Eastern language
Lay out the tongue 1.2-1.6 kg, for the marinade, prepare 300 ml of plum wine, 40 ml of rice or fruit vinegar, 20 ml of lime juice, a dessert spoon of honey, 3 dessert spoons of dark soy sauce, 1 medium pod of red hot pepper, 2 garlic cloves, a composition of dry ground spices, made to your taste.
Boil the tongue, prepare as indicated in the recipe above. Chop or chop the garlic and pepper. Fill all the components necessary for the marinade in a container, mix thoroughly. Put pieces of tongue, pickle in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours.
Additional original shades of the marinade can be given by putting a small amount of tamarind paste.
Pickled tongue with tartar sauce
For this dish, 1 beef tongue, 1 medium carrot and onion, a small stalk of celery, a garlic clove, a glass of white wine vinegar, salt and pepper, 4 eggs, a glass of olive oil, 4 sprigs of parsley, half a lemon juice are useful.
Fold in the pan, peeled and coarsely chopped, onions, carrots, celery. Salt, pour water, put the tongue, cook for 3 hours. Cut the finished meat into small pieces. In a bowl, mix chopped garlic, pepper, salt, vinegar, put the tongue, mix. Pickle 2 hours in a cold place.
Yolks 3 boiled eggs, place in a blender, add one raw yolk, put parsley, a little onion, beat everything until smooth. Whisk, add lemon juice and oil. The sauce is ready. Using variants of these marinades, you can cook pork tongue.