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Gastronomical experimentation
Topic Started: Jul 14 2010, 08:54 PM (127 Views)
brenda
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Delicious Beef Tongue (Lengua de Vaca) Tacos
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Prep Time: 15 Minutes
Cook Time: 8 Hours 15 Minutes
Ready In: 8 Hours 30 Minutes

INGREDIENTS:
1 beef tongue
1/2 white onion, sliced
5 cloves garlic, crushed
1 bay leaf
salt to taste

3 tablespoons vegetable oil
5 Roma tomatoes
5 serrano peppers (I used a single jalapeno. Hubby can't handle the spice.)
salt to taste
1/2 onion, diced
2 (10 ounce) packages corn tortillas (I made ours from scratch.)

DIRECTIONS:
1. Place the beef tongue in a slow cooker and cover with water. Add the onion slices, garlic, and bay leaf. Season with salt. Cover and cook on Low overnight or 8 hours. Remove the tongue, remove the skin and shred the meat into strands.
2. Heat the oil in a skillet over medium heat. Cook the tomatoes and peppers in the hot oil until softened on all sides. Remove the tomatoes and peppers in a blender, keeping the oil on the heat; season with salt. Blend briefly until still slightly chunky. Cook the diced onion in the skillet until translucent; stir in the tomato mixture. Cook another 5 to 6 minutes. Build the tacos by placing shredded tongue meat into a tortilla and spooning salsa over the meat.

Hubby and I both loved it. Daughter is not a huge fan of Mexican food, but she thought it was good, too.
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
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Piano*Dad
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Bull-Carp
Well, you've got tongue licked.
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Mikhailoh
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
It takes quite a palate to eat palate.
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Mikhailoh
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
But seriously, I had some very good beef tongue tacos in Chicago.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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apple
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we have some awesome Mexican food carts around town (near the butcher shoppe).. who knows what they cook, but the tacos are awesome.
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Jolly
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Geaux Tigers!
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John D'Oh
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My mum used to serve us beef tongue in salads. To say it was delicious would be an overstatement.

Traditional poor people's food in England is always a bit crap - tripe and onions, jellied eels. Bleugh. I've never actually eaten jellied eels, but if you have to stick them in jelly to stop them wriggling around, I don't want to know. Plus, anybody who's ever swum in the English channel and survived knows it's not exactly the cleanest sea.

Rich people's food in England is a little better - my favourite recipe involved getting on the train and going through the Channel Tunnel before eating.
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