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Salad with tongue and pickled cucumbers

Tongue and Pickle Salad

This one won't go unnoticed by your guests! If you're wondering what tasty, filling dish to serve at a holiday table, take a look at this simple but interesting salad of tongue and pickles. It comes together quickly and tastes one of a kind!

Maria

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Pork tongue

400

Walnuts

Pickles

Eggs

Mayonnaise

Lettuce leaves

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 41 % 9 g

Fats 55 % 12 g

Carbohydrates 5 % 1 g

145 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Cooking method

Step 1:

How do you make tongue and pickle salad? Gather the ingredients. Use large eggs; if yours are small, use 4. If your pickles are large, 2 are enough; if small, use 3. You can use a ready-made salad mix in place of the lettuce leaves.
Step 2:

Boil the tongue ahead of time until tender, in water with a whole peeled onion, a bay leaf, salt, and allspice berries — that makes it more flavorful. Peel the skin off the cooked tongue. Pork tongues take about 1 1/2 to 2 hours to cook. I usually cook them late at night in a pressure cooker and leave them on the cooling burner until morning — that way they come out tender and don't dry out.
Step 3:

Cool the tongue and cut it into thin matchsticks.
Step 4:

Cut the pickles into long, thin matchsticks.
Step 5:

Hard-boil the eggs, peel them, and cut into strips. For a more uniform texture, you can grate them on the coarse side of a box grater.
Step 6:

Finely chop the walnuts. You can leave them out, but they make the salad much tastier. You can swap them for salted peanuts or other nuts you like.
Step 7:

In a salad bowl, combine the pork tongue, pickles, eggs, and walnuts. Dress with mayonnaise and mix.
Step 8:

Arrange the lettuce leaves on a platter and mound the salad on top. Sprinkle with chopped nuts if you like. You can chill it for 10-15 minutes if you wish. Serve. Enjoy!

Homemade mayonnaise is worth the effort — tastier and more wholesome. You can also use sour cream or plain yogurt instead, on their own or mixed in to your taste, which lightens the dish.
You can also replace the mayonnaise entirely with sour cream, or make a milder dressing by mixing equal parts sour cream and mayonnaise.
Use beef tongue, or the more affordable pork tongue.
You can swap the pickles for brined or fresh cucumbers.