Good Lamb Tongue Recipes?

[Baggy]

Just in the middle of preparing some lamb’s tongues which I plan to chill, slice and make up as sandwiches with mustard.

Last time I brined the tongues for 24 hours, soaked them and then boiled for 90 minutes with some aromatics, but the tongue was tough. I presume it was overcooked. I have seen recipes giving time for boiling lamb’s tongue for as little as 45 minutes and others for longer.

I’d like to find the best conditions for cooking lamb’s tongue sous vide in a water bath.

I’m guessing that tongue will be less full of connective tissue than say pig’s head (cooked at 68C for 36 hours) or pig’s ears (85C for 36 hours), but I have no benchmark for timing or temperature.

Any ideas?

[flacoman]

When you eat it do you taste it or does it taste you ?

[crinoidgirl]

We ate cow's tongue when I was a kid (raised German/Ukrainian), so it was no big deal.

Prepared in a pressure cooker with cloves, salt, pepper, onion, bay leaf. Peeled, then sliced.

Quite yummy.  Still do it on occasion.

eta: forgot the bay leaf

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Forget sous vide. Pressure cooker, people!

Edited September 13, 2008 by crinoidgirl (log)