Salad with beef tongue is a real find, since it is cooked incredibly simple, it will delight you with excellent taste, very nourishing. And thanks to an interesting presentation suitable even for the holiday table.
Cooking Tips
Before you start cooking, you should be familiar with the rules of cooking beef tongue, which is the main component of the dish. A fresh product will have a dark purple hue, but if the tongue is gray, this indicates its stale condition, and a pale pink color indicates that the product was subjected to a second defrost.
A fresh tongue does not have extraneous smells, there must be an elastic surface, and if the consistency is soft, after pressing with a finger it restores the structure for a long time, this also indicates a repeated defrosting.
To prepare a delicious salad, it is not necessary to use a chilled product - salted or smoked beef tongue will fit (it all depends on the recipe). But if you use fresh ingredient, before cooking it must be boiled for three hours in salt water. After that, the skin must be removed, finely chopped, add other ingredients, cheese. You can take any dressing: mayonnaise, mustard, lemon juice, vegetable oil
Salad "Tender Spring" with beef tongue
Cooking time: 40 minutes.
Caloric content per 100 g: 64 kcal.
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of beef tongue;
- some radishes;
- 1 medium cucumber;
- 1 tomato;
- 1 small bunch of dill;
- 2 tbsp sour cream and mayonnaise;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- salt and pepper to taste.
Salad is cooked very simply:
- Cut the radish into small pieces, we also act with tongue and cucumber, cut tomatoes slightly larger.
- Preparing the sauce: mix sour cream, mayonnaise, add the finely chopped garlic, salt, pepper, mix thoroughly.
- Combine vegetables with tongue, pour sour cream and mayonnaise sauce.
Spicy snack with cheese and almonds
Cooking time: 50 minutes.
Caloric content per 100 g: 75 kcal.
Surprise your guests with this delicious salad with an unusual combination of ingredients. Looking for the following products:
- 200 g of beef meat;
- 2-3 pickled cucumbers;
- 50 g Dutch cheese;
- 1 medium onion;
- 100 g fresh mushrooms;
- 3 tbsp. mayonnaise;
- 1 handful of almonds.
The longest in this recipe is roasting onions and mushrooms. Otherwise, everything is simple: cut cucumbers, mushrooms, onions, beef tongue with long and thin slices. Fry the onions and mushrooms until softened, preferably over low heat and without a lid. Before cooking, you need to put the cheese in the freezer for 5 minutes - it will be easier to rub it. In a container, mix all the ingredients, add mayonnaise, then lay out a plate in a plate, coat with mayonnaise and sprinkle with grated almonds.
Recipe with the addition of pickled cucumbers
Cooking time: 70 minutes.
Caloric content per 100 g: 90 kcal.
Instead of fresh cucumbers, you can use salted. In this case, the salad will be spicy.
Ingredients:
- 300 g of beef tongue;
- 2 onions;
- 3 pickled cucumbers;
- 3 eggs;
- 250 grams of green peas;
- 10 ml of vinegar;
- 150 ml of mayonnaise.
Making a snack is easy:
- Boil the tongue, cut into strips.
- Onion chop rings, pour vinegar and boiling water for 20-30 minutes.
- Salted cucumbers cut into strips, eggs rubbed on a grater.
- Mix all the ingredients and fill with mayonnaise.
How to make a warm salad
Cooking time: 120 minutes.
Calories: 90 kcal per 100 g.
This salad has the second name - "Boyarsky". Appetizing appearance is obtained by adding cucumbers, zucchini (can be replaced with eggplants or zucchini), bell pepper.
Ingredients:
- 250 g of potatoes;
- 150 g of zucchini;
- 100 g cucumber;
- 120 g paprika;
- 300 grams of beef tongue;
- 4 cherry tomatoes;
- 1 egg;
- 20 ml of soy sauce;
- 10 ml of Tabasco sauce.
Cooking method:
- Potatoes, eggs, boil tongue, finely chopped.
- Pepper cut into strips, zucchini - rings, then fry them slightly.
- Mix all sauces, add butter, fill mixed products.
- Arrange on plates and decorate with cherry tomatoes.
Easy option without mayonnaise
Cooking time: 50 minutes.
Calories: 180 kcal.
This snack can be easily prepared by those who are on a diet or do not want to load the stomach with heavy food. This recipe involves the use of slightly smoked meat, and thanks to the use of anchovy, pickled cucumbers, mustard appetizer will be spicy and unusual in taste.
Products:
- 100 g smoked tongue;
- 300 grams of beef;
- 100 g of ham;
- 50 g of anchovies;
- 2 pickled cucumbers;
- 20 ml of mustard;
- 1 onion;
- bunch of parsley.
Cooking does not take you much time: boil beef, cut into strips, like other meat products. Onions, wash cucumbers, cut into cubes, mix everything. Season the salad with mustard and garnish with parsley and serve.
"Olivier" with beef tongue
Cooking time: 120 minutes.
Calories: 90 kcal per 100 g.
"Olivier" is a versatile salad, because it can add various types of meat, while getting a new dish with a new taste. Simply replace the sausage or chicken with beef tongue to get an unusual version of "Olivier", which is not ashamed to serve.
Ingredients:
- 300 g of boiled tongue;
- 3 boiled potatoes in their uniform;
- 4 boiled eggs;
- 2 pickled cucumbers;
- 2 boiled carrots;
- 1 can of canned peas;
- 4 tbsp. mayonnaise.
Crush the prepared products into cubes, mix, season, salt and season with mayonnaise.
Some additionally add onions to this salad, but it should be pre-marinated: cut into small cubes, pour over the mixture of vinegar and boiling water, leave for 5 minutes. True onion is advisable to add only if you plan to eat a snack on the day of cooking - if the salad stays in the fridge for several days, it will start to taste bitter.
And it is worth adding pickled mushrooms, and you will cook Vyborgsky salad, which will appeal to those who like spicy snacks.
