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MazDee

Mar 10, 2007, 11:22 PM

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Lengua Recipes

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My bro visits me every year from Oregon (he is here now) and one of his favorite foods seems to be the guisados they make with tongue. We have searched the internet to find something like these simple dishes, but they don't sound that promising. What we eat is just REALLY tender little cubes of lengua in a simple sauce of red or green. I have never tried to cook a tongue, but my bro has and has not been able to replicate what he eats here. Maybe it's just not cooking it right in the first place. Anyway, if you have a good family recipe for lengua, we would appreciate it!

Anonimo

Mar 11, 2007, 12:46 AM

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Re: [MazDee] Lengua Recipes

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Hi MazDee,
I haven't made it myself, but a favorite way to make lengua de res is in a Salsa Veracruzana; with chopped tomatoes, onions, garlic, green olives, capers, a little jalapeño chile, laurel, s&p, and dashes of cinnamon and cloves, perhaps. Of course, you precook the lengua in simmering salted water first and peel it. For the the sauce, keep it chinky and use at least a little olive oil to saute the onions, garlic and to cook the fresh, chunked tomatoes. I'm thinking it would be more attractive if you also browned the precooked tongue in the onion-garlic-olive oil first before slicing it into serving pieces and letting it reheat in the Salsa a la Veracruzana.

Buen provecho,
Anonimo

Rolly

Mar 11, 2007, 8:23 AM

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Re: [MazDee] Lengua Recipes

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Anonimo's sauce sounds very good.

Look here for a little simpler version: http://rollybrook.com/lengua.htm

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MazDee

Mar 19, 2007, 3:09 PM

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Re: [Rolly] Lengua Recipes

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Belated hanks to both of you. My bro liked the looks of both recipes and asked me to forward them to his email so he can try them when he returns home. Dee