How much and how to cook veal tongue?
Calf language is a universal and high-quality product.On its basis, you can cook a lot of delicious and nutritious dishes. Skilled housewives make such a product: hot dishes, salads and many other snacks.
However, not everyone has an idea of how much time the calf language really needs to be boiled over time so that it becomes softer and more tender. In fact, the recipe for cooking the language is so simple that even an aspiring cook will master it.
How to choose the right product?
Before you cook boiled tongue, you need to buy it in a store or on the market. This product contains a low level of fat, and the mass contains about 600 grams. It is necessary to choose a language very carefully, be sure to pay attention to:
- the product had a hard shell and a delicate texture inside;
- there should not be cuts and cracks;
- he does not look weathered and shrunken.
When buying a semifinished product, you should check whether it has ice crust or traces of old defrosting.
Remember that the freshness of such meat is stored in the general department of the refrigerator at a temperature of +4 degrees for no more than four days, and the shelf life of the tongue in the freezer can not exceed eight months.
The benefits of boiled tongue for the body
Properly cooked language is a useful delicacy. Its regular use contributes to:
- improve brain activity;
- good blood circulation and the circulatory system as a whole;
- increased hemoglobin levels and more.
Doctors recommend that they diversify their nutrition to patients with a disorder of the nervous system and diseases of the skin. In addition, the use of this product helps the synthesis of hormones and amino acids in the body. In addition, nutritionists recognize calf language as an easily digestible delicacy product, the use of which normalizes the sugar level in the body, and also perfectly stimulates insulin production. Consumers who have included it in their daily diet feel well and suffer less from colds.
Recipe
Before you start cooking such a dish, you need to carefully prepare it. To do this, the product must be soaked in lightly salted water for a long time. Experienced chefs advise to leave it in this solution overnight.
It will take more cooking time, but the tongue processed in this way will be softer and more pleasant to the taste. Then it must be removed from the pan with water and cleaned with a kitchen scraper.
Prepared product should be placed in another dish, pour water and put on fire.
After boiling the liquid, remove the foam formed on its surface and add water as needed. In order for the dish to have a more refined and savory taste, during cooking you can add the following ingredients:
- celery root;
- small peeled carrots;
- whole bulb;
- black pepper and salt to taste.
In this case, you must make sure that the product in the pan is constantly under water. Cooking time depends on its size and weight. The more the product itself weighs, the longer the cooking process will be.
It usually ranges from 1 to 2 hours. Check the dish for readiness, you can use the kitchen sharp sticks. A perfectly cooked dish will have a delicate texture inside.
How to cook the product in a pressure cooker?
In order to cook the tongue in the pressure cooker correctly, it is desirable to use high-quality modern equipment. It will significantly simplify your task. Pre-prepared product should be put in a pressure cooker tank and completely filled with salted water. On the instrument panel, you must set the cooking mode and set the timer to 15–20 minutes.
When the tongue is fully prepared, the hostess can only open the lid and remove the foam formed on the surface. Then, in the pressure cooker itself, you can add pre-prepared spices and vegetables. Close the lid and activate the "quenching" mode.After the time expires, take out the finished product and remove the film from it.
The term of cooking veal tongue in a pressure cooker depends on how carefully you have made its preliminary processing. It usually takes about 45 minutes depending on the size of the product. However, a properly prepared meat product will cook much faster than a semi-finished store.
It is advisable to wrap the prepared tongue with food foil and put it in the refrigerator for two days.
How to bring the dish to the table?
Veal tongue is a delicious delicacy product that can make a real celebration of everyday lunch or dinner. Modern cooking knows a lot of recipes based on it. The most popular and affordable way of serving calf tongue is cold cutting, made in thin slices with fresh or stewed vegetables.
However, this product is used by cooks for the preparation of sophisticated delicious dishes. These include: various snacks, salads, aspic, and so on. As a garnish to the veal tongue, usually serve large potatoes, beans or pasta. To make the dish spicy, you can apply homemade sour cream sauce to it.
How to cook beef tongue correctly, see the video below.
