How to quickly clean beef tongue in the home kitchen?

It is difficult to surprise anyone with meat products today, however, some offal will help to find unusual combinations of delicate taste and rich nutrition. Unfortunately, not all housewives know how to cook beef tongue, and often deny themselves and loved ones the original addition to the familiar menu. However, such a mistake is easy to fix.

Is beef tongue worth the effort?

Indeed, it will take a long time to cook this offal. About three hours, you only have to cook it. And if you recall the rather big cost, many people think about the advisability of such "victims". But beef tongue with its positive qualities in cooked dishes outweigh the scales in favor of its frequent use.

• It contains many minerals, including vitamins B and PP, a lot of zinc, which is rare in such quantities. There are iodine, potassium, phosphorus, iron and other substances with which the body can stabilize the production of hormones and amino acids.
• Facilitates the production of insulin by the body, which is especially useful for diabetics.
• Promotes tissue regeneration, which allows you to enter it in the menu of postoperative patients.
• Improves the condition of the skin, makes it more elastic, slows down the aging process.
• The lack of connective tissue makes it useful for patients with gastritis, ulcers and anemia.
• Helps lower blood cholesterol.
• Nutritionists suggest using a boiled version of the product as the basis for weight loss diets, as it contains a lot of protein and a moderate amount of fat.

Tip

It is better for older people not to get carried away excessively with dishes based on beef tongue, since there are a lot of fats in it, you can damage weakened kidneys or liver.

What to clean raw and what boiled?

In order for the beef tongue to turn out gentle, with a pleasant taste, you need to properly clean it. The procedure is carried out in two stages.

1. Raw tongue needs to be cleaned of dirt, mucus or remaining blood. Prior to this, the offal is soaked for at least half an hour, and preferably for an hour, in cold water. Everything that needs to be cleaned, soaked, and remove waste from the surface of the tongue will be much easier. Having taken out of the water, the meat is soaked with a paper towel. To clean thoroughly, but with light movements, scraping off an unpleasant coating, while at the same time cutting off the remaining meat from the neck and fat, if any. Wash before cooking in running cold water. The skin is still unsettled.
2. The second stage of cleaning takes place after the beef tongue has already been cooked. It is dipped in cold water, boiled after boiling for 15 minutes, boiling water is drained, the pan and meat are washed. The next time it falls directly into fresh boiling water, where it is cooked for 2.5-3.5 hours, depending on how big the piece is and how young the animal was. Together with it, you can boil bay leaf, onions and carrots. Salt broth can only be in the last phase, when the readiness is almost reached. Otherwise, the delicate product will turn into hard fibers.

After being prepared, the beef tongue immediately from boiling water is placed for a minute in cold water.

Tip

In order to check readiness, it is necessary to pierce the offal with a knife. A clear liquid will stand out from the pre-made tongue. If the meat is still damp, the liquid will be cloudy.

It will be very easy to clean further: the skin begins to easily separate from the surface of the meat, you can pick it up with a knife in one place and pull it off almost completely.

Tip

You can clean the tongue after cooking only before it cools down. If you leave the film, later it remains only to cut it with a knife.

When does good turn into harm?

Poor quality beef tongue can cause ailments, and its excessive amount can provoke relapses of chronic diseases. This happens under one of the following conditions.

• The tongue was bought boiled. On the one hand, it is convenient to get a product that does not need to be cleaned and cooked. On the other hand, you cannot know for sure which product was boiled, how much time passed after this, and under what conditions storage took place. Often languages ​​get on sale from other countries in a frozen form. In this case, they can deteriorate very quickly when cooked.
• Beef tongue purchased in spontaneous markets. When buying, you must require a certificate of sale. The laboratories check the meat for the presence of hormones, the amount of antibiotics and other harmful additives. If you use the services of natural markets, you can get problems for your body.
• The product is consumed too much. Beef tongue in large quantities is harmful for patients with bronchial asthma, with problem thyroid glands and allergic rhinitis. Do not forget that there is an individual intolerance to any food, including even such a dietary and wholesome one.

Do not deny yourself and loved ones the pleasure of enjoying the exquisite taste of domestic delicacy. Many dishes of Russian and foreign cuisines use this meat in various ways. Modern mummies with pleasure began to offer it as an option for sandwiches in school backpacks: the volume is small, the taste is excellent, the nutritional value is suitable for a growing organism, and even the most restless babies will not be able to get much smeared with such food.

If you cook and clean the beef tongue ahead of time, the procedure will not seem long to you. And you can save the product for several days in the refrigerator, for which pre-cooked meat is wrapped in foil.

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