How much to cook beef lung?

Rinse the lung thoroughly, cut lengthwise, remove large veins and blood vessels. Put the lung in a saucepan and fill with cold water with a margin. after cooking, the lung is deformed and floats. Bring water to a boil, add salt, spices and cook for 40-60 minutes depending on size. After cooking, you need to let the light cool down and remove the films from it. After boiling, it is better to cut the light into pieces and fry or stew.
The lung is cooked in a pressure cooker for 10 minutes.

How to cook beef lung

Products
Beef light - half a kilo
Salt - 2 teaspoons
Lavrushka - 1 leaf

Defrost beef lung and rinse thoroughly.
Cut each lung in half lengthwise and remove the large veins.
Put the lung in a saucepan, fill it with water with a supply, since during cooking the lung is strongly deformed and can rise from under the water. You can put a weight or a lid of a smaller diameter so that the lung does not digest.
During cooking, almost no foam is formed, but it is better to monitor the first couple of minutes and carefully remove it when foam forms.
Salt the lung, add spices.
Boil beef lung 40 minutes, then put out of the pan, cool slightly and peel off the film.

To taste boiled beef lung resembles something between lard and meat. To use it as an independent dish, after cooking, fry the light in vegetable oil with the addition of spices. But more often salads are prepared with light or they are put on fillings in pies - in both cases, the beef lung must be brought to full readiness, just like the heart, liver and any beef offal.

In order to do softer beef light, as well as to rid it of the pungent odor, you can soak it in water for 2-3 hours. Or use a pressure cooker, in which the dish will cook under pressure.

Calorie content beef lung - 103 kcal / 100 grams.

Beef lung cost - from 180 rubles / kilogram (in Moscow for June 2020). Due to the relative cheapness, light is sometimes given to feed dogs - in this case, cook light for about 10 minutes, or you can do it without cooking, but then you should first freeze the offal.

Pressure cooker method

Products
Beef light - half a kilo
Salt - 2 teaspoons
Lavrushka, peppers, onions and carrots as spices - to taste

How to cook beef lung
1. Thoroughly rinse the lung under running water, large veins can be removed before or after cooking.
lung

2. Put the washed heart in a pressure cooker pan or a multicooker-pressure cooker bowl, add salt and spices.
easy in pressure cooker

4. Close the pressure cooker valve. Put the rubble pressure cooker on low heat, set the multicooker-pressure cooker to the cooking mode.
5. Cook a lung 10 minutes after the valve closes (a characteristic hiss will notify about this, the multicooker pressure cooker will beep).
ready-made beef light

6. Release the pressure for 10-20 minutes under natural conditions, then you can use the easy recipe.

When loading the pressure cooker with a light, keep in mind that the lung will swell a lot. It is better to cook the lung by cutting it into large pieces, the water should be more than 1.5 times the level of the lung.

After boiling, you can add chopped raw vegetables (potatoes, carrots, cabbage, tomatoes, etc.) to the pressure cooker and cook the dish for another 10 minutes - then you get a delicious stew with minimal effort.

If the lung has a strong odor, it is better to soak it in water or milk for a couple of hours.

Boiled lung and cucumber salad

Products
Boiled beef light - half a kilo
Pickled cucumbers - 6 pieces
Olives - 300 grams
Cilantro - 1 bunch
Onion - 1 head
Mayonnaise or sour cream, salt and pepper - to taste.

Boiled beef lung salad recipe

Easy to cook and chop finely, chop the pickles finely, chop the olives in half, finely chop the onion and cilantro.Season with mayonnaise or sour cream, salt and pepper, add a spoonful of sunflower oil and mix well.

Boiled lungs and eggs salad

Products
Boiled beef light - half a kilo
Eggs - 3 pieces
Green peas - small jar
Corn - 300 grams
Onion - 1 head
Mayonnaise or sour cream, herbs, salt and pepper - to taste.

Making a salad from light
Boiled eggs, finely chop the onion and boiled beef light, add corn and peas, season with mayonnaise or sour cream, sprinkle with herbs and mix well.

Author / Editor - Lydia Ivanova

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