Beef tongue is a delicacy meat pro-product, from which you can prepare a variety of delicious and delicious dishes. Especially good are the dishes from boiled beef tongue for a festive table, for example, you can make a beautiful cut from the tongue and serve with some interesting sauce. Or you can cook from the tongue. Usually beef tongue before the further preparation preliminary boil.
We'll tell you how to cook the tongue of beef to make it delicious.
Of course, it is best to choose fresh, chilled, and not frozen languages from old animals. The tongue should be pink in color with purple hues and have a normal meaty smell. If the tongue is pale pink, then it was frozen, gray color indicates that the tongue is stale. Of course, there must be a stamp of the veterinary and sanitary service in the language.
Boiled beef tongue is the basic recipe
Ingredients:
- Beef tongue - 1 piece;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- parsley root - 1 piece;
- bay leaves - 3 pcs .;
- pepper peas fragrant - 5 pcs .;
- cloves - 3 inflorescences.
Preparation
The tongue is soaked in cold water for 20 minutes, then thoroughly washed and cleaned with a brush. Fill the tongue in a saucepan with a little water, but so that it covers completely. Cut the bottom part of the bulb, stitch the cloves into it and put the onion in a saucepan, add the peeled root of the parsley, bell pepper and laurel. You can also add seeds of cumin, coriander and fennel to the broth, but in a small amount, spices should only slightly modify, enrich and shade the taste of meat. Well, in addition, the remaining broth should have a pleasant taste, for example, if you plan to prepare from a tongue in jellied or use soup to make soup.
How long to cook beef tongue?
When the water in the pan with the tongue begins to boil, reduce the fire to a minimum, carefully remove the noise and cook for about 2 hours, covering the pan with a lid. You can cool the tongue in the broth, but it is better to extract it and cool it in cold water, after which we proceed to cleaning the tongue.
How to clean the boiled beef tongue?
Using a sharp knife, carefully cut the skin from the boiled tongue, holding it with your free hand.
Now the beef tongue is ready for further cooking.
Beef steak - recipe
Ingredients:
- tongue of beef boiled - 1 piece;
- broth, in which the tongue was brewed;
- gelatin - 10 g;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- greenery.
Preparation
Carrots must be separately boiled for 20 minutes and cleaned. We will cut carrots in circles and not too small brusochkami. Broth filtered, if it is muddy, we introduce a brace of egg white. Soluble in warm gelatin broth. You can pour a glass of white sherry, Madeira or Vermouth into this mixture.
The tongue is cut across with thin slices, garlic - also across - by thin plates. We lay slices of the tongue,