This simple beef tongue recipe results in tender, melt-in-your-mouth meat. The delicious mushroom onion sauce is optional, but it enhances the dish a lot.
Ingredients for cooking veal tongue:
You will only need a few simple ingredients to turn beef tongue into a delicacy. Here's what you need:
- Beef Tongue: Not often found in the grocery store, you can easily order fresh beef tongue from Bioangus Farms.
- Seasonings : Dried bay leaves, whole black peppercorns and allspice are used.
- Butter : quality cow butter is used.
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Onions and mushrooms: They are needed for the sauce with which we will serve the delicious veal tongue.
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Beef Broth : Use Bioangus Farms Beef Bone Broth .
- Salt and pepper : If you use fine salt, you need to reduce the amount you use or the dish may end up being too salty.
- Cornstarch : Only 1 teaspoon to thicken the sauce.
Instructions
Cooking veal tongue is easy! Here are the basic steps:
- You start by braising the tongue with the spices until it's soft, which takes 3-4 hours.
- Let it cool slightly until it is easier to handle, then remove the skin and slice it.
- If making the sauce, cook the onion and mushrooms in butter, then add the beef stock, salt and pepper.
- Add the chopped meat to this delicious sauce and simmer for 30 minutes until very tender. You can thicken the sauce with a little cornstarch if you like.
To serve, arrange the slices on plates and pour the sauce over them.

Expert advice
You'll want to let the cooked tongue cool a bit before removing the skin. It's too hot to handle when you take it out of the pot.
But don't let it sit and cool too long. You want to remove the skin as soon as possible. If it cools too much, it will be very difficult to remove.