Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Food, Cooking, and Game Preparation smoked beef tongue tacos

Made an excellent tongue today. I smoked it for a couple hours and boiled it for 3 with an onion, couple japs and several cloves of garlic. Shredded and in corn tortilla with salsa verde and a squeeze of lime with sour cream. Delish.

sounds ok, but to be honest, I have NEVER been courageous enough to eat that stuff.

Why not? Tongue, Heart, liver.

Sounds a lot like song dog jerky.

It may sound offal (pardon the intended pun), but it's just a small roast with plenty of fatty tissue from the underside to keep it moist. I trimmed that fatty part off for pintos before shredding for tacos. I had never smoked one before, but it adds a great deal of flavor.

I think I'm going to try corning it next time. It has a finer texture than brisket, but the muscle has a similar grain and a more even fat distribution.

If you try it with an open mind you'll have a soft spot for lengua.

If you've ever enjoyed a hot dog, you have enjoyed some tongue and worse...lol

Actually, I find nothing bad about tongue...it's a great source of protein.

Sounds good to me. I would boil first if necessary then smoke, to keep it smoky. Was the smoke flavour still strong?

By the way, no animal I shoot gets to keep it's tongue. It is good pickled too

Randy

It was more mild, but it had a great pink ring. I did a pork tender at the same time an it had a stronger smoke taste but a little hickory goes a fair distance. If I were using oak it would have either smoked longer or smoked after boiling. It was really perfect for my taste.

My dad would get smoked beef tongue from the local meat market and custom butchering shop - benefit of being in a small town. Pete the owner thought it a quite curious request, definitely not local fare. Dad would boil for a couple hours like prostrate8 did but with bay leaf and peppercorns. Cool, skin and you've got mother nature's own cold meat. Pretty spendy sandwich fixins in a NY deli. Great stuff, think I need to visit with Pete.

Oh, my cousin Don's kids loved smoked tongue, particularly his youngest, Shane, and we'd always bring one when we visited. Teased Shane that he should take one to school for show and tell and darned if he didn't!

Love pickled tongue. I use a pressure cooker to speed up the process.

BCR

Gotta love the lengua, the best roast on a beef IMO.

Man...there is nothing better than beef tongue tacos...hungry.