Meat by-products are mostly useful. A language that is not inferior in its organoleptic properties to meat of the first category is especially useful and tasty. From the pork tongue you can cook a lot of different dishes. They will be especially appetizing and tasty if you bake the pork tongue in the oven. You can bake the by-product whole or cut into pieces, but in any case, you must follow a few rules.
Cooking Features
Swine tongue can be prepared in different ways, and each option has specific features. However, regardless of the method of preparation must take into account several important points.
- Swine tongue should be washed well before cooking. In order to remove all the pollution, it is pre-soaked for an hour in cold water, and then rubbed with a brush or scraped with a knife.
- If you add lemon juice to the water while soaking the tongue, it will be more tender, it will be easier to clean.
- You can clear the tongue and raw, but it is difficult to do without damaging the meat. Therefore, it is best to boil it all the same, then clean it, immersing it for 10 minutes in cold water. This simple manipulation makes it very easy to peel off the tongue.
- If you boil the tongue for subsequent baking, you do not need to salt it. In extreme cases, you can add salt for 10-15 minutes before readiness. This will preserve the richness of the language.
- You can bake your tongue in a sauce, sleeve, or foil. The last options allow not to overdry the tongue when cooking in the oven, if it is made without a large amount of sauce.
The individual subtleties of technology already depend on each specific recipe.
Pork tongue baked in oven in foil
Composition:
- swine tongue - 0, 4 kg;
- olive oil - 20 ml;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- seasoning for meat, salt - to taste;
- fresh dill - 20 g.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the pig's tongue thoroughly. Using a knife, clean it, trying to remove the skin without damaging the meat.
- Pass garlic through a press.
- Finely chop the dill.
- Mix and mint the dill, salt, garlic, seasonings. Mix with butter.
- Rub the peeled tongue with the fragrant mixture and put it in the fridge for 3 hours to marinate well.
- Wrap the tongue in foil, put it on a baking sheet.
- Place the by-product tray in a preheated 180 degree oven. Bake it at this temperature for one and a half hours.
With the tongue out of the oven, wait for the foil to cool. Unwrap and cool. After that, cut the tongue into thin slices and serve as a cold snack. Serve baked tongue and can be hot with a side dish of stewed vegetables, canned green peas, mashed potatoes. In this case, it will need to cut it hot, although it is a little more difficult. To the tongue prepared according to this recipe, horseradish or mustard sauce is served as a sauce.
Pork tongue baked in an oven sleeve
Composition:
- pig languages - 1 kg;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- lemon - 0, 5 pcs .;
- vegetable oil - 50 ml;
- adjika acute - 50 ml;
- bay leaf - 2 pcs .;
- allspice peas - 5 pcs .;
- salt - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Pork tongues wash well and soak in cold water for half an hour. You can add the juice of half a lemon to the water. This ingredient is not listed in the recipe, so if you want to add it to the water to make it easier to remove the skin from the tongue afterwards, you need a whole lemon to prepare the dish.
- Clear tongues from skin.
- Squeeze the juice from half a lemon into a bowl. Add to it adjika, vegetable oil and salt. In this case, note that the real Caucasian adjika is usually already very salty.
- Rub the tongues with the mixture. Leave in the fridge for 2 hours to marinate.
- Cut the garlic cloves into 3-4 pieces.
- Put tongues marinated in adjika into the cooking sleeve. Spread the garlic on them. Add bay leaves and allspice.
- Secure the sleeve on both sides with special clips or just tie. Make a few holes in the film with a toothpick.
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees. Place a sleeve with tongues on a baking sheet and place it in the oven.
- Bake the dish for an hour and a half.
It is possible to serve pork tongues baked in adjika both hot and cold. They must be pre-cut into flat plates. A good addition to this snack will be spicy tomato sauce, better homemade, although the usual shopping ketchup will also work.
Pork tongue baked in sour cream
Composition:
- pig languages - 1 kg;
- garlic - 4 cloves;
- sour cream - 100 ml;
- water - 100 ml;
- lemon juice - 20 ml;
- bay leaf - 2 pcs .;
- salt, black pepper powder - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash out the tongues and fill them with water, adding lemon juice to it. Water should be cold and completely cover offal.
- After half an hour, remove the tongues from the water, put in a clean pan. Fill with clean water. Add bay leaf to the water. Boil the tongues over low heat for an hour, removing the foam.
- Transfer to cold water for 10 minutes, clean. Cut into plates half a centimeter thick. Put in heat resistant form. Salted and pepper.
- Cut the garlic into thin plates, spread on the tongue.
- Dilute sour cream with water, add a little pepper and salt. Pour this mixture of languages.
- Place the form on a baking sheet and send it to the oven.
- Turn on the oven and wait until the temperature inside it reaches 200 degrees. Cook tongues in sour cream at this temperature for an hour.
You can serve tongues baked in sour cream with a side dish of potatoes or a salad of fresh vegetables. Canned beans and green peas are well suited to this dish.
Pork tongue baked with potatoes and mushrooms
Composition:
- boiled pig languages - 0, 5-0, 6 kg;
- potatoes - 0, 6 kg;
- fresh champignons - 0, 3 kg;
- sour cream or mayonnaise - 150 ml;
- hard cheese - 100 g;
- onions - 100 g;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- vegetable oil - as required.
Method of preparation:
- Boil and peeled pork tongues cool and cut into plates with a thickness of about half a centimeter.
- Lubricate the baking dish with oil.
- Boil the potatoes in half-cooked uniform, peel, cut into round slices.
- Cut the champignons into thin plates.
- Place potatoes on the bottom of a baking dish, pepper and salt it.
- Cover the potato with tongue slices.
- Onion cut into small cubes.
- Fry champignons with onions for 10 minutes. Put on the language.
- Smear a dish with sour cream or mayonnaise, sprinkle with grated cheese.
- Send the form to an oven preheated to 200 degrees. Bake for 30-40 minutes, depending on the degree of readiness of the potatoes used to prepare the dish.
Such a dish can be served for the festive table - it will almost certainly make the best impression on your guests.
The pork tongue cooked in the oven is a tasty and healthy dish worthy of even a festive table.
