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.
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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