Beef tongue, like pork tongue, is considered a delicacy. It is used to prepare transparent aspic, delicious salads. Boiled tongue with various sauces is good. With them, the tongue is baked in the oven, it turns out very tasty.
Preliminary preparation
To make the tongue tender and juicy, it must be boiled for 2-3 hours, then put in cold water. When it cools down, remove the top film. The tongue prepared in this way can be baked in the oven. If you put it in foil and place it raw, it won't be tender. In addition, the film of this offal is tough. If you remove it from the baked tongue, it will have an unattractive appearance. Therefore, it is first prepared in the above way, coated with sauce and only then sent to the oven.
Baked Mushroom Tongue with Cheese Sauce - Ingredients
To appreciate the great taste of this product, prepare a baked tongue with a cheese sauce with mushrooms. For this dish, take:
- 800-900 g of beef tongue;
- 50 g onions;
- 150 g of mushrooms;
- 30 g sour cream;
- 30 g of water;
- 50 g of cheese;
- 1 tablespoon flour;
- 25 ml of vegetable oil;
- 30 g bell pepper;
- ground paprika, herbs, salt to taste.
Cooking tongue with mushrooms
Wash the offal, fill it with cold salted water, boil for 3 hours. Then place in a bowl and rinse under running cold water. Now the skin can be easily removed from it.
Prepare the sauce while boiling the tongue. To do this, cut the mushrooms, put them in a frying pan in sunflower oil. After 10 minutes, add peeled and chopped onions to them, keep on fire in a pan for another 5-7 minutes.
Mix flour with water until smooth. Pour in a thin stream into the pan, stirring constantly. Add sour cream, stirring constantly. Turn off the heat after 3 minutes.
Cut the tongue into diagonal slices 0.5 cm wide. Place half the slices on a greased baking sheet, put sour cream-mushroom sauce on each, cover with the other half of the slices.
Grate the cheese on a fine grater, add paprika, chopped pepper, chopped herbs, salt, mayonnaise to it. Stir in the cheese sauce and brush over the surface of the tongue slices. Bake the dish at 180o for 15 minutes. The number of products is designed for four people who can enjoy this delicious dish.
Layered option
You can bake your tongue in layers. To do this, prepare 700 grams of tongue, as in the previous recipe. Place the tongue slices on a baking sheet, alternating with three finely chopped onions. Coat the layers with 500 grams of sour cream mixed with salt, paprika. Bake the flaky tongue for 15 minutes. Serve hot.
