How to cook pork tongue and dishes from it?

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Boiled pork tongue can be used during the preparation of any dishes. Today we will look at two different lunch options where this product is present. It is worth noting that both of the presented methods require a minimum amount of ingredients and time.

Delicious boiled pork tongue: recipes with photos of ready meals

1. Aspic for the festive table

Required ingredients:

• chicken thighs - 2 pieces;
• pig tongue - 1 pc.;
• bay leaves (for broth) - 4 pcs.;
• head of onion (for broth) - 1 pc.;
• boiled chicken egg - 1 pc.;
• table s alt - add to taste;
• instant gelatin - 1.5 large spoons.

Cooking stock

Before you prepare the aspic for the festive table, you should boil the pork tongue well in s alt water (for 80 minutes). After that, it must be cooled, peeled and cut into pieces up to 1 centimeter thick. Next, you need to start cooking chicken broth. For thisboil chicken thighs in 2 liters of drinking water, after s alting it, and also adding bay leaves and an onion head for taste. When the chicken meat becomes soft, it must be removed from the broth, cool and cut off all the flesh.

Formation of aspic

After the fragrant broth is ready, it should be cooled and mixed together with instant gelatin. Next, you need to take deep forms, line their surface with pieces of pork tongue, and also put some chicken meat and halves of a boiled egg (for decoration). In conclusion, all the ingredients must be poured with broth so that it covers the dish by 1-2 centimeters, and then put it in the refrigerator for 6-7 hours.

2. Hearty boiled pork tongue salad

Required ingredients:

• canned green peas - ½ standard jar;
• pickled and fresh cucumber - 1 each;
• canned champignons - 200 g;
• boiled carrots - 2 pieces;
• boiled pork tongue - 1 pc. (cook as in the previous recipe);
• fat high-calorie mayonnaise - 200 g;
• small table s alt - ¼ part of a small spoon;
• fresh or frozen cauliflower - 200g

Cooking process

Before you make such a delicious salad, you should boil the pork tongue using the same technology as described above, and then chop it into smallcubes and place in a large bowl. You also need to cut canned champignons, boiled cauliflower, carrots, pickled and fresh cucumbers. All these components must be added to the tongue, and then add green peas, fine table s alt to them and lay out high-calorie mayonnaise. As a result, you should get a very satisfying and tasty salad.

How to serve properly

Now you know how to cook pork tongue deliciously and make festive dishes out of it. Aspic from such a product must be served at the table as a snack in a cold state, and a hearty salad should be served before the main dinner. As for the last dish, you can add boiled chopped potatoes instead of cauliflower if you wish.