To prepare tripe

Name: To prepare tripe
Yield: Feeds four
Ingredients: handful of parsley stalks; 1 carrot, roughly chopped; 1 celery stalk, roughly chopped; 1 onion, roughly chopped; 1 kg (2 lb) raw honeycomb tripe

Preparation info

Feeds
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Old Food

By Jill Dupleix

Published 1998

About

Most butchers will have prepared tripe, but it can be over-bleached and over-cooked. By doing your own, you have control over cooking times and additives.

Ingredients

1 kg (2 lb) raw honeycomb tripe
1 onion, roughly chopped

Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Wash tripe well under plenty of cold running water, and place in a large saucepan of cold, salted water. Bring to the boil, and blanch for 5 minutes. Drain and rinse tripe in cold running water, until cool enough to handle. Cut the tripe into thin strips as called for in the recipe, and place in a saucepan of water with roughly chopped onion, celery, carrot and parsley stalks. Bring to the boil