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Pork tongue is cooked for 1,5-2 hours in a saucepan and 20 minutes in a pressure cooker. Pig tongue – 1-1,5 hours in a saucepan and 15 minutes in a pressure cooker.
How to cook pork tongue
Rinse the pork tongue, brush it, cut off fat and salivary glands. Pour water into a saucepan, put on fire. Put the tongue in boiled water and cook it for 1,5-2 hours. Then rinse the tongue with cold water and remove the skin from the pork tongue.
The weight of the pork tongue before cooking is about 220-300 grams
Cook pork tongue in a saucepan
Pork tongue skin can be easily removed by rinsing the tongue in cold water. During cooking, the pork tongue is boiled down about 2 times.
Pork tongue spices
Like any offal, pork tongue loves spices when cooking. When cooking pork tongue, you can add peppercorns, garlic, peeled onions and carrots.
When to salt pork tongue when cooking?
Salt at the beginning of cooking.
Calorie content of boiled pork tongue
208 kcal.
Side dish for boiled pork tongue
Beans, green peas, fresh vegetables, lettuce, boiled potatoes, mushrooms.
Boiled pork tongue sauce
Bechamel sauce and chicken sauce and mushroom sauce, mustard and horseradish are perfect.
How easy it is to peel a pork tongue
After boiling the pork tongue, rinse with cold water – peel the cooled tongue with a knife, removing the whitish skin. If you do not rinse the tongue with cold water or tighten it with cleaning, the skin will have to be peeled off along with the tender fleshy part.
How to cook pork tongue for a child
Pig tongue can be offered to a child upon reaching 1 year of age. However, due to the relative fatness of the pork tongue, parents usually prefer the beef tongue. When boiling a child’s tongue, increase the time by half an hour.
Pig tongue price
From 500 rubles / 1 kilogram (on average in Moscow for June 2019).
Secrets of softness Most often, pork tongue needs to be cooked for a snack or for a salad, so it is very important to cook the tongue correctly. The most important thing is that the tongue should be soft, for this is why it is boiled for so long. To make the pork tongue so soft that it melts in your mouth, it is enough to follow a couple of rules: before cooking, fill it with ice water for 1-2 hours, and at the beginning of cooking, as soon as the water in the pan boils for about 15 minutes, change the water to cold – and finish cooking in it. Add salt at the very end of cooking, or salt the dishes with the tongue directly. After boiling, immediately pour ice water over the tongue – a sharp change in temperature will make it even more soft.
Boiled pork tongue salad
Products
Pork tongue – 2 pcs.
Cucumber – 2 pcs.
Chicken Egg – 1 pcs.
Cheese – 1 pc.
Mayonnaise or sour cream to taste.
Boiled pork tongue salad recipe
Boil the pork tongue and chop finely, wash and chop the cucumber, finely chop the boiled eggs. Cut the cheese on a grater. Layer cucumbers, tongue, eggs, cheese. Then again – cucumbers, tongue, eggs, cheese.
Boiled tongue sandwiches
Products
Boiled tongue – 300-400 grams (this is a pound of raw), 1 large carrot, onion, a third of a loaf of white bread, herbs and spices – to taste.
Boiled Tongue Sandwich Recipe
40 minutes before the end of cooking the tongue, add carrots, onions and spices to the pan with boiling tongue. Dry the tongue for 5-7 minutes, cut into thin pieces, serve the tongue on bread, sprinkle with chopped herbs.
Pork tongue
Pork tongue products
Pork tongue – 3 pieces
Carrots – 1 piece
Parsley greens – 2 tablespoons
Onions – 3 heads
Gelatin – 50 grams
Green peas – 5 tablespoons
Salt, pepper, lavrushka – to taste
How to cook pork tongue
Wash and cook pork tongues, water should cover the tongues by 2 centimeters. When boiling the tongue, remove the foam. 1 hour after boiling, add peeled carrots and onions, salt, lavrushka and pepper. Remove the boiled tongue from the broth, peel and cut into cubes. Remove the onion from the broth, put the carrots and then use for decoration.
Dissolve the gelatin with a glass of water, leave for 30-40 minutes, then add the gelatin mixture to the boiling broth and stir until the gelatin is completely dissolved.
Pour a couple of centimeters of broth on the bottom of the jellied tongue dish and cool in the refrigerator for 2 hours until it solidifies. Decorate with carrots, peas and parsley cut into circles on the frozen broth. Then lay out the tongue and pour over the strained broth. In the refrigerator, aspic from the pork tongue will freeze no more than a day.
Serve pork tongue with lettuce, sour cream, mustard, pickled ginger, horseradish, fresh vegetables.
Calorie content of jellied pork tongue – 180 kcal.
Pork tongue in a slow cooker
Products for cooking pork tongue
Pork tongue – 3 pieces
Carrots – 1 small
Onions – 1 head
Bay leaf – 2 leaves
Black peppercorns – half a teaspoon
Parsley root – 1 tablespoon
Salt – to taste
How to cook pork tongue in a slow cooker
Rinse the tongue, put it in a multicooker container and fill it with water with a margin of 2 centimeters. Peel onions and carrots, add to a slow cooker. Set the multicooker to the “Extinguishing” mode, time – 1 hour. Then add salt and spices to the tongue. Cook the tongue for another half hour. After boiling, pour cold water over the tongue and peel. Chop the tongue, serve with mustard or horseradish. Pork tongue cooked in a slow cooker can also be used in salads.