Tongue Roast Masala Ingredients:
1 Onion of Garlic
1 1/2 Inch Ginger
8 - 10 Peppercorns
6 - 8 Cloves
2 Inch Piece Cinnamon
1 Teaspoon Turmeric Powder
1 Teaspoon Cumin Seeds
Tongue Roast Main Ingredients:
1 Tongue
2 Table Spoons Vinegar or 1 Sour lime
While frying -
2-3 Broken Red Chillies
Half cut onion
2 Teaspoons Sugar to be Caramalised
Procedure:
Clean the tongue, salt it and keep it aside
salt tongue and keep aside
Grind all the masala ingredients shown above, you don't need to do it in a pounder, we had no electricity at that time so hand ground the tongue roast masala.
roast masala ingredients
pound the tongue roast spices
Now that your masala is ground, time to spice up that tongue.
ready roast masala
Apply some vinegar on the tongue and then get ready to rub in the masala.
add vinegar to the tongue
Apply the masala evenly on the tongue, don't forget to turn it over and rub the masala onto the other side as well and now its patience.
rub masala on the tongue
We want the masala to get into the meat so we need to set it aside for 4 to 5 hours with a weight on it.
store with weight
After the marination is done and your ready to cook the tongue, heat some oil in a pressure cooker.
heat oil in the cooker
Add the sugar to it and wait till it caramelizes.
add sugar to the oil
Once the sugar is caramelized, add the tongue.
when sugar caramilizes add the tongue
Add the broken chillies and continue to fry.
add chillies
Then add the onions and continue to fry.
add onions
Turn the tongue over till both sides are fried.
turn the tongues
Then add two glasses of water with any remaining masala
Then pressure cook for 45 minutes, post that open the pressure cooker.
open pressure cooker
Slice the tongue and then cook it again in the gravy
slice the tongues
If there is extra water then boil it down,
cook in gravy
Post that your tongue should be ready :)
