Beef Tongue Tacos

I know what you’re thinking.  Disgusting.  But they are so good!  Trust me.  Additionally, tongue is a very nutritious food that is great for skin and soft tissue!

These brought me back to my days in Honduras and Costa Rica.  I’m pretty sure I had cow tongue there without knowing it.  The taste was entirely too familiar.  For those of you scared….don’t be!  I just tastes like meat, and you wouldn’t know it was tongue.  Although I won’t lie, once it was cooked, before it was diced, it looked very similar to the cadaver tongues that I used to teach from in lab!  Yikes!  It is just another muscle, and you can probably get it cheap!

Beef Tongue Tacos
Ingredients:
beef tongue
onion
garlic
salt
Directions:
Prep the tongue by removing any hair that may be stuck to it….but this probably isn’t necessary. Cut the tongue in half.  Place it in a stock pot and bring to a boil with a whole onion, a head of garlic, and some salt. (Just throw the aromatics in there whole, you are just flavoring with them, not eating them).  Simmer for 2 1/2-3 hours until the white connective tissue comes off easily.  Peel it off.  Let the tongue cool and dice it up.  Put it in a taco w/garnishes.  We going authentic, so we ate them with 100% corn tortillas; however, if I were to make it at home, I would enjoy it just as much in a lettuce cup.  We served it with fresh tomatillo salsa, radishes, cucumber, sauteed green onion, avocado, onion, cilantro, and lime..

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