Unlike other offal meats, tongue is notan internal organ, but a muscle, although quite a unique one. Maybe for this reason, or maybe for other reasons, the tongue was and remains a delicacy, and quite an expensive one at that. And it is usually prepared for a festive table: jellied tongue, sliced boiled cold tongue and, of course, salads with tongue. And the tongue is considered not only a delicacy, but also a suitable product for dietary nutrition. And yet, about salads. This is, perhaps, the most multi-variant dish from the tongue. For example, here is a salad with tongue and cucumbers. Do you think this is just one recipe? You are wrong: even such a seemingly simple salad can be prepared in completely different ways.
Salad "General"
Ingredients:
- Beef tongue - 1 piece;
- Fresh cucumbers - 2-3 pcs .;
- Pickled cucumbers - 2-3 pcs .;
- Sweet (French) mustard.
- Mayonnaise;
For the broth:
- Onion;
- Carrot;
- Bay leaf;
- Parsley root;
- Black peppercorns.
Preparation:First, for the salad, you need to boil the tongue in vegetable broth. To do this, wash the tongue well, put it in a saucepan and fill it with cold water. Add washed and peeled carrots, parsley root and one onion (the vegetables do not need to be cut, so add them whole). Boil the tongue for about two hours, and about fifteen minutes before the end of cooking, add salt, a couple of bay leaves and a few black peppercorns to the broth. Cool the boiled tongue and peel it. The skin comes off easily from a well-boiled tongue, and if the skin is difficult to peel off somewhere, you can cut it off with a knife. Then cut the peeled tongue into thin strips (strips or bars). The main thing is that the pieces are long. The number of cucumbers is taken from the ratio: one cucumber per hundred grams of tongue. That is, for an average tongue weighing about three hundred grams, we need three fresh and three salted cucumbers. We also cut the cucumbers into strips, put them in a salad bowl and add the sliced tongue to them. By the way, if you peel the cucumbers (especially the salted ones), the salad will be more tender. Season the almost finished salad with a sauce of mayonnaise and mustard. To do this, mix three parts mayonnaise with one part French mustard. If you do not have any, you can replace it with regular (Russian) mustard, but you need to put much less of it and add a little sugar and lemon juice to the sauce. Well, at the end of cooking, you can sprinkle the salad with finely chopped herbs, for example, parsley or cilantro, dill or basil.
Salad "Count of Dracula"
Ingredients:
- Beef tongue - 300 g;
- Fresh cucumbers - 300 g;
- Hard cheese - 150 g;
- Mayonnaise and ketchup for refueling.
Preparation:Boil the tongue, cool, peel and cut into strips. Wash the cucumbers well, dry and also cut into strips. Mix the sliced products, put them in a mound in a salad bowl and sprinkle with grated cheese. Decorate the salad with a mayonnaise net and drops of ketchup (like drops of blood) on top. Note: This salad can also be prepared in portions, placing it in bowls. You can also season the salad with mayonnaise, and use only ketchup for decoration.
Salad "Silva"
Ingredients:
- Boiled tongue - 300 g;
- Ham - 200 g;
- Fresh cucumbers - 300 g;
- Mayonnaise;
- Red ground pepper.
Preparation:Boil the tongue, cool it and peel it, wash and dry the cucumbers. Then cut the tongue, ham and fresh cucumbers into strips, put everything in a salad bowl, mix and season with red ground pepper and salt. Dress the salad with regular mayonnaise and decorate with chopped greens.
Salad "Lily"
Ingredients:
- Pig tongue - 400 g;
- Fresh cucumbers - 3 pcs .;
- Eggs - 3 pieces;
- Bulgarian red pepper - 1 piece;
- Bulgarian pepper is yellow - 1 pc .;
- Canned green peas - 300 g;
- Salt;
- Mayonnaise.
Preparation:Boil, cool and peel the tongue. Boil the eggs hard, wash and dry the vegetables, and remove the seeds and partitions from the peppers. Then prepare the ingredients for decorating the salad: one cucumber, the yolk of one egg, half a yellow and red pepper, and about ten peas. Cut all the other ingredients into cubes. Put the chopped ingredients in a salad bowl, add the green peas, season everything with salt and mayonnaise and mix. Now let's start "growing" the lilies. Cut the cucumber into four parts and cut each of them into curly cloves. Then take out the pulp, leaving a thin layer along the edge - the sepals for the flowers are ready. Cut the petals for the lilies from the red and yellow peppers, cutting them into long narrow triangles. Insert the petals into the sepals, and put a quarter of the yolk in the middle. From the parsley stalk we cut "stamens" onto which we put peas. We insert the "stamens" into the yolks. We put the lilies on the salad and decorate with parsley leaves.
Salad «Cleopatra»
Ingredients:
- Beef tongue - 1 piece;
- Fresh cucumber - 1-2 pcs .;
- Shrimp - 100 g;
- Eggs - 2 pieces;
- Salt;
- Mayonnaise.
Preparation:Boil the tongue in salted water (or with roots and onions). Let it cool and remove the rough skin, then cut the tongue into strips. Wash and dry the cucumber - also into strips or bars. Boil, cool and peel the shrimp. Boil the hard-boiled eggs, cool, peel and chop on a coarse grater. Lay out the salad in layers:
- Dressed with mayonnaise and salt tongue;
- Cucumber;
- Shrimp;
- Eggs.
Cover all layers except the first with mayonnaise.Leave the salad in the refrigerator for a while to soak. Serve chilled. Here are different ways to prepare a salad with tongue and cucumbers. Try, cook and enjoy the process and the result. And the result will definitely come if you cook with pleasure. We recommend reading:
