How to cook tongue

Any dish from the tongue, whether it is jellied or sliced from a boiled product, is considered a delicacy, as it turns out delicate, tasty and nutritious. How to cook the tongue correctly so that it does not become stiff and inedible?

Before you talk about the rules of cooking this product, a little information about the choice of language. To cook dishes from it, use beef and lamb, and pork, and tongue of lamb.

If you need to quickly prepare a dish, choose a pig.

If time allows, then it is better to take beef, since it is more delicious. It has the greatest iron content. That's why doctors recommend him pregnant and lactating. He enters the diet and those people who have low hemoglobin.

The tongue of a lamb is usually boiled for babies because of its tenderness.

How to cook tongue, if you did not have to do this before? Since cooking it is a rather complicated process, it requires some culinary skills. When choosing a language, you need to pay attention to its color (red) and the smell (fresh). Before cooking this byproduct, you need to soak it for two hours. After that, it is put in cold water and allowed to boil. After the beginning of the boil after five minutes, the liquid should be drained, the tongue should be rinsed and poured again with cold water. It should be cooked for a long time, while regularly it is necessary to remove the foam that appears during the cooking process. If this is not done, the broth will become cloudy, it can not be used to prepare other dishes (although most cooks still refuse to use it today, or dilute the broth with diluted gelatin). After the tongue becomes soft, and this is somewhere in minutes so 50 until the end of cooking, you need to add to the broth the root of parsley, carrots, celery, onions. To improve the taste of the dish, you can use seasonings such as oregano, black and red peppers, basil, bay leaf. Sometimes vinegar is added to the water to speed up cooking and facilitate the cleaning of the finished tongue.

Still hot tongue is cleaned from the top film. This can be done quickly and neatly, if you put it for a couple of minutes in cold water. Begin cleaning the tongue from the root to its tip. Here in short and the whole technology of cooking this nutritious and healthy product.

How to cook pork tongue? Are there any differences in his cooking from beef, mutton or lamb tongue? The difference is only in the time spent on brewing. The longest beef is cooked - up to three hours. On pig's time it takes less - somewhere about 10 minutes (if a young pig). If the animal was older, then an hour and a half.

How to cook a tongue in a steamer, aerogrill, multivark and other modern appliances designed to make life easier for the hostess? The rules for preparing meat dishes in them (including from the language) can be found in the annotation attached to each of the devices listed. Of course, with such assistants the cooking process of the language will be shorter, but the main points are still the same for everyone.

Boiled tongue is good in and of itself, and in salads, and in jelly dishes, and in rolls. It must be included in the diet.

How to cook the tongue now we know, but what dishes and how to prepare it will be described below. If there is a desire just to enjoy this delicacy, with nothing without mixing it, serve it on the table with sliced slices on a plate, where, in addition to the tongue, put a spoonful of canned peas and a bit of shit.

Love the jellied? Then add to the boiling broth swollen in cold water gelatin, while constantly stirring. Preheat this mixture, but do not boil. The resulting solution is poured into the tongue of the tongue and previously beautifully sliced (circles, asterisks, fir-trees, etc.) vegetables that were cooked with it. The frozen jelly with tongue is served on the table.

Do you like salads? The fastest and easiest recipe: cut tongue, mushrooms, marinated cucumbers, marinated onions join them , everything is filled with mayonnaise.

Sitting on a diet? Then the next dish is for you. Boiled tongue is cut into strips, sprinkled with olive oil, which has already been added chopped garlic.

Knowing how to cook tongue, and doing it by all rules, we get nutritious, tasty and tender meat.