Name: Beef Tongue Sandwich (Sandaweech Lisaan)
Cuisine: Iraqi
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon salt; 1 onion studded with 6 to 8 whole cloves; 1 bay leaf; 2 or 3 pods cardamom; ¼ teaspoon each black pepper, marjoram, caraway seeds, and ground ginger; 1 medium beef tongue (about 3 lbs/1.35 kg); 1 teaspoon za’tar or thyme; Salt and flour; ¼ cup (60 ml) olive oil; ¼ cup (60 ml) vinegar

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Delights from the Garden of Eden

By Nawal Nasrallah

Published 2019

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Beef tongue makes exquisite sandwiches, juicier and more delicate in taste than pot roast. Unfortunately, not many people know how to cook it or serve it, and more often than not, it ends up being boiled to toughness, and cut into cubes to be picked up with toothpicks as an appetizer. It deserves better treatment, and here is how to do it.