I’m frustrated. I was planning to make a lot of Halloween dishes towards the end of October but things happened and my daughter got hospitalized for four days. I was left with spoiled and not so spoiled ingredients.
Would you mind if I make Halloween dishes this November? I know you wouldn’t, you would probably like to see how crazy I am making Halloween stuffs past Halloween.
Another thing I’m frustrated about is I miss cooking. If you will notice the few posts before this are all about eating out. I have no time to cook.
Well, here’s to hoping I could leave all my problems to October and step right into November without them.
BTW, Do you know it’s my tatay’s {dad’s} birthday today? Well, when there’s a special occasion then there’s also special food in the table. My dad loves saucy dishes like this. I know some of you may not like the sound of ox tongue being served on special occasions because I know that some of you just found out today that ox tongues are cooked and eaten.
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Uh…… Happy Halloween!! LOL! Just kidding.
Ox Tongues are really expensive here in the Philippines. Its price ranges from P400 – 500 {$9+} per kilo so you won’t see it grace the table everyday. And another reason why it doesn’t grace the table everyday is because you’ll need a lot of time to prepare and soften the tongue before you can even cook it.
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This is what the tongue looks like after boiling….
This is my mom’s version of Lengua. I grew up eating Lengua cooked this way and I have yet to try and make my own version but I will….soon.
PrintLengua Estofado / Ox’s Tongue in Tomato Sauce
- Author: The Peach Kitchen
Ingredients
- 1 whole ox tongue
- water for boiling
- salt and pepper
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 onions chopped
- 2 tbsp olive oil + 2 tbsp butter
- 3 potatoes, cubed
- 1 carrot, halved then sliced
- ¼ cup green olives {I didn’t have this}
- 250 grams tomato sauce or ¾ tomato paste mixed with 1 cup water
Instructions
- Boil the ox tongue in salted water until tender. It will take you around 2 hours depending on your desired tenderness.
- While tongue is simmering, fry potatoes and carrots for a few minutes until it is a little brown on the edges. Set aside.
- Take the ox tongue out of the pot until it is cool enough to touch then peel off the leather-y skin off.
- Heat oil and butter in a wok.
- Fry tongue in oil+butter until outside surface is seared. Remove from pan.
- Sauté onion in same heated oil+ butter until onion becomes translucent.
- Add tongue, tomato sauce and ¼ cup water.
- Simmer for 20 minutes. Take the tongue off the pan and slice it.
- Season sauce with salt and pepper.
- Put it back in the sauce along with the potatoes, olives and carrots
- Simmer for 10 minutes. Serve with lots of steamed rice.
2 Responses
thank you for this recipe..i like to cook lengua in tomato sause…..
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