Pork Tongue Suggestions

[liuzhou]

I've happily eaten pork tongue many times in restaurants and friends' homes here, but never cooked it. Today, on a whim, I bought one.

 

 

Obviously, I can and will ask those friends for suggestions as to how to use it, but I'd also like to read what suggestions people here may have. My friends are all going to give me Chinese ideas. There must be others!

 

 

 

Thanks!

Edited June 16, 2021 by liuzhou (log)

[heidih]

Not a product I have ready access to. Have you considered (trigger word alert) corning/pickling it, then the low slow simmer? I've only done beef which based on the cattle I've seen might be firmer than Mr. Piggy.  Dense flesh that I like with a sharp condiment or sauce like horseradish or mustard. Yiuyrs looks more managable than the larger beef one for a single person.

[Margaret Pilgrim]

Here's your first step.    From there, you can marinate sliced tongue in a myriad of vinaigrette type sauces.   Or serve hot with a mustard sauce, or...    Small tongues are blank canvases for your imagination and craving.

[liuzhou]

1 hour ago, Margaret Pilgrim said:

Here's your first step.    From there, you can marinate sliced tongue in a myriad of vinaigrette type sauces.   Or serve hot with a mustard sauce, or...    Small tongues are blank canvases for your imagination and craving.

Thanks, but perhaps I should have been clearer.  I know how to prepare and cook it. 

 

I was more looking for what to do with it thereafter. 

[Paul Bacino]

I would gravitate towards a spanish/ mexican  dish!!

 

It leaves my mind , that my relative used it in some type of soup.

[Shelby]

Just now, Paul Bacino said:

I would gravitate towards a spanish/ mexican  dish!!

 

It leaves my mind , that my relative used it in some type of soup.

Exactly what I was thinking.  Tacos.

[Margaret Pilgrim]

We have served it as a cocktail (pre-dinner_ accompaniment to rave reviews.    Thinly sliced, on Chinese spoons.

[Margaret Pilgrim]

30 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

Thanks, but perhaps I should have been clearer.  I know how to prepare and cook it. 

 

I was more looking for what to do with it thereafter. 

I don't understand.    If you have "cooked "it, which I assume means some seasoning treatment, what's left but to serve and eat it?

[Paul Bacino]

1 hour ago, Shelby said:

Exactly what I was thinking.  Tacos.

 

 

I think we used it in Posole..  In the broth and bits added back. we used tongue/ears/ snout/ toes and a Pork loin--  Rosario always said her daughters would never eat the fore mentioned body parts!!

 

Lingua taco's would work too

Edited June 16, 2021 by Paul Bacino (log)

[Duvel]

I had medium-cooked pork tongue in an Izakaya in Tokyo, specializing in offal. It came in thin  slices dressed with Tsuyu (soy sauce/mirin/sake), a bit of vinegar and karashi. It was topped with copious amounts of mild raw onion. Very good !

Edited June 20, 2021 by Duvel (log)

[liuzhou]

2 hours ago, Margaret Pilgrim said:

I don't understand.    If you have "cooked "it, which I assume means some seasoning treatment, what's left but to serve and eat it?

 

Oh dear. I guess you know how to cook chicken. Do you serve and eat it the same way every time?

 

I also know how to cook potatoes. I certainly don't always serve them the same way every time, either.

[Margaret Pilgrim]

37 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

 

Oh dear. I guess you know how to cook chicken. Do you serve and eat it the same way every time?

 

I also know how to cook potatoes. I certainly don't always serve them the same way every time, either.

Got it.

[Margaret Pilgrim]

Some good suggestions here.    I'll have a sample of each, please.

[FeChef]

Brine like you would beef tounge, then slice thin and serve with Rye bread, and cheese.  You add some mustard, or go the cuban route.

Edited June 20, 2021 by FeChef (log)