Don't let the title fool you...these are awesome and inexpensive. I had these down in Mexico 3 years ago and when I found a place that had grass-fed beef tongue I grabbed it and have been waiting to try it out. In most of the world beef tongue is normal food, my grandparents who went through the depression fixed it like a roast and it was delicious that way too.Laura was less excited as she saw the pre-cooked tongue and was grossed out. She opted for shredded chicken which I grilled special for her. (more beef for me!). You can use a lean roast if you are grossed out or can't find a tongue.
Beef Tongue Tacos
So good and tender- Prep Time: 10 min
- Cook Time: 240 min
- Servings: 4
- Ingredients:
- 1 onion
- 6 cloves of garlic
- 1 Beef Tongue (you can sub a lean roast)
- 5 roma tomatoes
- corn tortillas
- salt and pepper
- 5 serrano peppers
Cut up half the onion into slices and throw with the beef tongue in a crock pot. Dice up 5 cloves of garlic and put that in the crock pot too. cover the tongue with water and set on low for 8 hours.
Take the tongue out and remove the 'skin'. I know it looks funky. Shred the meat with 2 forks.
Take the tomatoes and peppers and saute them on med-high heat until you have seared/cooked all sides and throw them in a blender with the remaining clove of garlic. flash blend until slightly chunky...be sure to put the lid on the blender.
dice the remaining onion and saute until slightly translucent. Add your tomato mixture and heat over low for 5 or 6 minutes to reduce it down just a bit.
remove the rest of the cooked onions from the crock pot and put in with the shredded meat.
Warm up your tortillas for a few minutes to get them nice and soft . Load up a tortilla (i use two at a time to stop breakage) with some meat and onion mix and spoon on some of the tomato mixture.
I also cut up some jicama and splashed some lime and added a dash of cayenne pepper to it to eat on the side...real good if you refrigerate the jicama first to get it nice and crispy.
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