Ox tongue and Cheddar cheese soldiers

Name: Ox tongue and Cheddar cheese soldiers
Ingredients: 4 bay leaves; 30 g fine salt; 2 carrots, peeled and roughly chopped; 1 onion, roughly chopped; 50 g butter; 200 g good-quality Cheddar, coarsely grated; 20 g thyme; 4 slices of sourdough bread; 1 ox tongue

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Changing Tides

By Roberta Hall McCarron

Published 2024

About

Ox tongue sandwiches and soup were a regular favourite at my grandparents’, and I wanted to make something similar for the restaurant lunch menu: so the ox tongue soldier was created! The perfect dipper but also amazing by itself.

Ingredients

1 ox tongue
2 carrots, peeled and roughly chopped
1 onion, roughly chopped

Lunch
Sandwich
Winter

Method

Place the ox tongue in a pot and cover with cold water. Bring to a boil, then strain through a colander and rinse the tongue under the cold tap. Put it back into the pot and cover with fresh, cold water, then add the chopped carrots, onion, bay and salt. Set aside a few sprigs of the thyme and put the rest in the pot. Bring to a simmer and cook for 3 to 4 hours, until the tongue is tender and a