Name: Lengua Recipe
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 2 h 20 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Filipino
Ingredients: 2 lb lengua; 3 cup beef broth; ¾ cup whipping cream; 1 10.5 fl oz condensed cream of mushroom; 1 cup button mushrooms; 1 large yellow onion; 5 garlic cloves; 6 cup water; Salt; ground black pepper; 3 tbsp cooking oil

Lengua Recipe

Blondell Baugh Modified: November 12, 2023

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How To Make Lengua

Lengua is ox tongue. In this dish, it is cooked in a creamy white sauce with mushrooms. Serve this with rice for the perfect meal.

Prep: 20 mins

Cook: 2 hrs

Total: 2 hrs 20 mins

Serves:

Ingredients

2 lb lengua, (ox tongue)
3 cup beef broth, or stock
¾ cup whipping cream
1 10.5 fl oz condensed cream of mushroom, (can)
1 cup button mushrooms, sliced
1 large yellow onion, chopped
5 garlic cloves, crushed
6 cup water , (for boiling the ox tongue)
Salt, to taste
ground black pepper, to taste
3 tbsp cooking oil

Instructions

Boil 6 cups of water in a pressure cooker. Add the ox tongue. Cover the cooker and pressure cook for 35 to 40 minutes or until tender.
Remove from the pressure cooker. Let it cool down. Peel the outer layer off the tongue. Slice the ox tongue into thin pieces.
Heat oil in a cooking pot.
Saute onion and garlic.
Add the sliced ox tongue. Cook for 2 minutes.
Pour the condensed cream of mushroom and beef broth in the pot. Stir. Let boil. Cover and simmer for 35 minutes.
Add the sliced mushrooms and whipping cream. Continue to cook for 40 minutes in low heat or until the liquid reduces to half and the sauce starts to thicken.
Add salt and ground black pepper to taste.
Transfer to a serving plate. Serve.
Share and enjoy!

Nutrition

Sugar: 1g
:
Calcium: 92mg
Calories: 856kcal
Carbohydrates: 29g
Cholesterol: 231mg
Fat: 50g
Fiber: 1g
Iron: 10mg
Monounsaturated Fat: 22g
Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g
Potassium: 783mg
Protein: 72g
Saturated Fat: 21g
Sodium: 4189mg
Trans Fat: 1g
Vitamin A: 438IU
Vitamin C: 3mg

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