Tongue Roast to review

Ingredients

  • 1tongue
  • to tastewater
  • to tastesalt
  • to tastewhole spice
  • to tastepepper
  • 2elaichi (cardamom)
  • 3/4 to 3 stickslavang & dalchini (cloves & cinnamon)
  • 4red chillies
  • to tasteghee
  • to tastepepper powder
  • to tastetomatoes
  • to tasteboiled fried potatoes

Instructions

  1. Clean the tongue.
  2. Boil water but it should not reach boiling point.
  3. Te'blowgass (te bilang gass), put the tongue in the water, wait, then peel off the skin.
  4. Put water in the pressure cooker.
  5. Put in the tongue, salt, whole spice, pepper, elaichi, lavang 3/4 to 3 sticks dalchini, and 4 red chillies. Cook for 1/2 hour.
  6. When boiled, cut into slices, fry in ghee with pepper powder, then remove it from the pan.
  7. Smash tomatoes in the gravy and thicken it.
  8. Serve with boiled fried potatoes.

One step uses the phrase 'te'blowgass' before peeling the skin — likely a Konkani/regional term for blanching.

  • tongue
  • roast
  • pressure-cooker
  • offal
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Original handwritten page for Tongue Roast