Language - beef or pork - is reala find for the economical mistress. Because it is considered an offal, it is cheap. But the taste of the language is in no way inferior to the meat of the first category. And on some parameters even surpasses it. The tongue has a soft, delicate texture and exquisite taste. In addition, since this organ is a solid muscle, it practically does not contain carbohydrates. But in its composition a lot of proteins and minerals. Among the latter is particularly worth mentioning zinc, which helps to produce natural insulin. Thus, this by-product is more often used by people with diabetes. But zinc is more in beef tongue, but pig is known for the content of lecithin, which is necessary for the normal functioning of nerve cells. In the by-product there are no connective tissues, which means that it is perfectly digested and can serve as dietary food. In this article, we'll look at how to make a delicious pork tongue. Recipes for cooking, how long to cook the byproduct, in order to preserve its useful qualities, what dishes can be added to it - all this will be described below.
How to choose a good language. Preliminary preparation of the product
Many prescriptions of how to prepare this dish,begin with the words: "Take the boiled tongue and cut it ...". As if in this form the product is sold in the store! And in case you are a beginner, a similar recipe will put you at a dead end. Fortunately, the cooking process of the language is not at all complicated. True, quite lengthy. But whatever you are going to do from the language - soup, salad, jelly, bake it in the oven - at first it should be appropriately prepared for cooking. In the store, give preference not to a frozen, but to a cooled product. It is in it preserves the entire supply of vitamins and minerals. Frozen tongue is suitable only for minced meat, but good jellied from it will not work. But if you still purchased this product, you need to give him enough time to thaw. Any recipe for cooking a pig tongue involves a gradual defrosting. First, move the product to the refrigerator. And then let the tongue lie in very cold water. It needs to be changed from time to time, so that it does not heat up. After an hour and a half of soaking, the tongue will be easier to clean. But in this case, you can not do without a brush.
Tongue of pork boiled: cooking recipe with a photo
Initial processing of the by-product directlyaffects the taste of the dish. To make the pig tongue succulent, with a delicate smell, you need to know a few secrets. It is not necessary to clean the byproduct from the rough skin covering it. Leave this process for later when the tongue is completely welded. Are you embarrassed that no effort could wipe the skin from the dark spots? That's how you can comply with health standards. Fill the cooled tongue with water. After half an hour, drain the liquid. We put a new one in the pan and set it to cook. When the water boils, wait a quarter of an hour. Salt and this water. Thus, all the dirt that has become entangled in the fibers of the skin of the tongue will go away, and along with it the unpleasant smell of the raw by-product. Again, we collect clean cold water. And if you are going to cook soup from the tongue, then this will be your future broth. This time, diligently remove the foam with a noise. So your soup will turn amber and transparent. Do not rush and boil the broth over high heat. Enough if it will barely gurgle.
Cook time
During heat treatment, the skin of the tonguebecomes white and hard, like a rubber pouch. It is difficult to guess whether an edible portion of the by-product was sufficiently prepared. Therefore, many beginners are interested in the question of how much to cook pig tongue? Recipes do not give a clear answer. After all, the cooking time depends not only on the size of the tongue, but also on the age of the animal. It is possible to give only a very approximate answer. If the whole language weighs about 300-400 grams, then it most likely belonged to a young pig. This subproduct is brewed from one and a half to two hours. If the weight of the delicacy reaches half a kilo, then it is taken from an adult pig. This product requires a longer cooking time - about two and a half hours or more. We remind: it is not necessary to hurry and plant a large fire under the pots. The tongue turns tender and juicy, when it is cooked for a long time on a slow fire. We check readiness so. Pull the tongue out of the pan onto the plate. We pierce with a knife in the thickest place. If there is a colorless juice, then you can turn off the fire.
Some rules of cooking
Any recipe for boiled porkthe language prescribes for half an hour before the readiness to put in bay leaf bay leaf, peeled carrots and parsley, celery half-poultry, onion. And this - regardless of whether you plan to use the broth or not. Simply, these seasonings will give the language additional nuances of taste and aroma. At the same time, and not earlier, the broth should be salted. Immediately after you turn off the fire under the pot, the tongue needs to be reached and dipped for five to ten minutes into cold water. From the temperature drop, the peel will fall behind the pulp, and it will be easy to cut. For some dishes, the tongue can be cut into slices and in a skin, like sausage. But most of the recipes still require a complete purification of the product from a solid white shell. Language without skin is returned to the hot broth. Let it lie there for half an hour and absorb additional moisture into the fibers. So the product will become more tender.
Cooking in a multivariate
Как видим, сам процесс тепловой обработки языка uncomplicated. But it takes considerable time. And the cook needs to constantly remove the foam from the broth. But we live in the XXI century! Modern kitchen devices will help us make a delicious boiled pork tongue. The recipes of the preparation in the multivark of this by-product are very simple. Carefully wash and brush the tongue with a weight of 300 grams. Put it in the bowl of the multivark. Immediately put there and vegetables: cut into four pieces of onions and carrots, as well as two whole garlic cloves. Pour a liter of cold water. Lower the lid, turn on the "Quenching" program. After an hour and a half, add a laurel leaf, two pea peppercorns, salt, and other spices to taste in the multivark bowl. If necessary, pour water. Again, run the "Quenching" program, but this time for half an hour. After the sound signal, we take out the tongue and lower it for ten minutes into the icy water. Clean, let him lie down in a hot broth.
Pork tongue salad: recipe with photo
To be honest, this byproduct is very tastyby oneself. Slice it with slices, serve with mustard or grated beets with horseradish. Excellent snack for Russian vodka! As for salads, the boiled tongue can be used in any recipe where meat or sausage is used. Try to make thus stuffed with the edge of Olivier. That is, instead of sausage, cut the same amount of boiled tongue. You will see how the taste of the whole dish will change. No wonder the version of this salad is called "Olivier for the bourgeois". And here's another recipe. It is called - "Salad from the language." The boiled and chilled by-product is cut into small pieces. We pour 100 grams of prunes with hot water. When the dried fruits soften, select the stone, and cut the flesh into slices. Bulb chop half rings, put in a bowl, salt and pour with pepper, sprinkle with vegetable oil and vinegar. We'll marinate for about 10 minutes. Mix all the ingredients. We fill with mayonnaise. We spread the dish on salad leaves. We decorate with leaves of parsley.
Jelly
A simple recipe for a pouring piglanguage will help you create a crown appetizer on the festive table. Two pieces of this by-product are cooked until prepared according to the method described above. Purify, cut into slices. Gelatine (20 g) is filled with an incomplete glass of cold boiled water. We clear the carrot and half the celery tuber. We lay out slices of the tongue on the dish. We adorn the asterisks with carrots and celery. We take 350 milliliters of liquid from the broth in which the tongue was cooked. Filter it through gauze. Whisk egg whites with a fork and pour into hot broth. The color of the liquid will immediately lighten. We put it on the fire. After boiling, cook the broth for 3 minutes. Separately warm up in a cup swollen gelatin. We knead until the yellow grains dissolve completely. Pour into a hot broth. We knead it. Fill this liquid with a dish of tongue. We put in the cold.
Stewed tongue in Chinese
The subproduct can be used not only inas a cold snack, but also serve it as the main hot dish. First we weld the tongue. We'll clean it from the skin. Slice the boiled pork tongue with thin slices. The recipe for cooking a Chinese dish prescribes in the same way to grind 30 grams of fat. Let's throw it on the hot frying pan and make crisp cracklings. We mix a couple of spoonfuls of broth in which the tongue was cooked, with the same amount of soy sauce. Add a pile of vodka (preferably rice). Lay out slices of the tongue on a large frying pan. Fill with cooked sauce and grease with cracklings. We mix it and bring it to a boil. Spoon the starch dilute with a small amount of water. We pour a thin trickle into the frying pan. We extinguish another two minutes and serve, decorating the dish with fresh herbs.
Oyster mushrooms with sour cream sauce
We continue to consider the preparation optionsby-product in the composition of hot dishes. Here is the recipe for making a pig tongue in sour cream with mushrooms. First, we boil the by-product until it is ready, we clean it. Two pork tongues will require 300 grams of ham. These are mushrooms, on which there is practically no skin, so we do not clean them, but simply mine under running water. Bulb finely chopped. In a frying pan, melt 50 grams of butter. Let's lose the bow until golden. Add large cut oyster mushrooms. Cover the frying pan and put out the mushrooms for about a quarter of an hour. Let's add a spoonful of flour. We mix it. We pour 150 grams of sour cream. If it is too thick, you can dilute it with milk. Stir, lower the lid. We extinguish it for 5-10 minutes. Boiled tongue is cut into random pieces. We put it in a frying pan with mushrooms. We extinguish another ten minutes. Solim dish. Garnish is served with mashed potatoes, boiled rice or pasta.
Pie "Fairytale"
Pork tongue can also be baked.But first it should be boiled and peeled off the skin. Next, the recipe for cooking in the oven of a pig's tongue prescribes to put a thinly rolled layer of ready-made puff pastry into a mold. This is the basis of our cake. One fruit of zucchini or a young zucchini is cleaned, cut into strips. Fry in a frying pan or oven on the grill. Boiled tongue is cut exactly with the same brusochkami as zucchini. We put on the dough, alternating with zucchini. From four large spoons of sour cream and two small grated horseradish we make refueling. Add to it the garlic and two cloves passed through the press. Mix the dressing to homogeneity, distribute it over the tongue and zucchini. The next layer of the pie is fresh tomatoes. Cut them in circles. Sprinkle the top of the pie with a thick layer of grated cheese. We put it in a hot oven. Stove at 200 degrees for about half an hour.
Fried tongue in Polish
Without lighting the oven, cook delicious hotdish. Polish recipe for pork tongue requires first to boil the by-product until ready and clean it. Now we are preparing the batter. Two eggs lightly shake with a fork with a little water and salt. Add 2 tablespoons of flour. Let's make a dough. In the end, add 1-2 soup spoons of vegetable oil. Boiled and cooled tongue is cut into thin slices. Now put on the fire a pan with vegetable oil. Slices of the tongue are dipped one at a time in the batter. We put it into the red-hot fat. Fry for three minutes on each side. This dish is suitable garnish of boiled or fried vegetables.
Potato casserole
For this dish you need to boil separatelyeight young tubers and two pieces of pork tongue. The recipe for cooking casseroles is extremely simple. Cut potatoes into slices. Put them in a greased with vegetable oil form. Sprinkle with chopped garlic (2-3 cloves) on top. Languages without skin are also cut in circles. We spread in the form of potatoes. Salt, season with your favorite spices. Mix 200 grams of sour cream with one egg. Pour on the tongue pieces. Send in the oven, heated to 180 degrees. After a quarter of an hour sprinkle the dish with grated cheese. We'll send another ten minutes to wake up.
Soup
Среди рецептов приготовления свиного языка есть и first meal. There are a lot of them, but they are made according to the same principle. The broth, in which the tongue was cooked, does not pour out, but is filtered and clarified with the help of raw egg whites. Vegetables, which are usually put when cooking tongue whole, we beautifully sliced. In such soups you can add potatoes.
