Ingredients (needed for cooking 1kg or pickled tongue):
Kosher beef tongue
1 big spoon of oil
2 table spoons of saltpeter
1 teaspoon of sugar
Lots of garlic
Sweet pepper
Bay leaves
Parsley root
Cooking a kosher pickled tongue:
Chop garlic cloves finely.
Prepare a mixture of salt, saltpeter, garlic and sugar. Rub it in the tongue thoroughly and put the kosher tongue in a bowl.
Cover the beef tongue with a heavy press and leave it there for two weeks. Flip the kosher tongue over every day.
After two weeks, use the liquid that is formed in the bowl, add water to it. Add pepper, bay leaf and parsley root to the mixture.
Put on a stove and boil on small fire until cooked.
Serve cold, decorating with greenery.
Symbolism of the meal:
This meal is symbolizing Moses, who was a great prophet. He was given a very complicated task by the God to give people the laws of Torah and to explain them the meaning of the Jewish religion. For this reason tongue in this meal is symbolizing how complicated it was for Moses to speak to Jewish people in the dessert. The big beef tongue is very heavy and hard to move. And when the kosher beef tongue is pickled, then it is even harder to move!
The fact that the kosher beef tongue is put under the press is symbolizing the heavy yoke that Moses had to bear.
Tags: Kosher Recipes