Tips on how to eat tripe
Tripe can make a cheap, nutritious, and tasty meal if you know what to do with it. The trick to enjoying tripe, especially for the beginner, is to make sure that it is cooked a long time-long enough to diminish its rubbery texture and allow it to absorb the flavor of the sauce in which you simmer it.
5 Steps from howtodothings
- Clean the tripe.
- Understand how tripe is usually prepared.
- Choose a recipe.
- Prepare the recipe.
- Enjoy! The cooked tripe can be eaten the same as any other meat.
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2 great recipes of tripe
Here are two of my family's favorite recipes:
ENGLISH TRIPE AND ONIONS IN MILK
1 lb. tripe 2-3 onions, chopped
1 1/2 cups milk 2 bay leaves
salt and pepper, to taste butter
2 tbsp. finely chopped parsley mashed potatoes, to serve
CHINESE TRIPE STEW
2 lbs, tripe, in bite-sized pieces 3 tsp peanut oil
1 tbsp. minced or powdered ginger 1 onion, coarsely chopped
4 whole star anise 1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp. rice wine or sherry 1/2 tsp, Chinese five-spice powder
3 carrots, sliced on the diagonal 3 cups chicken broth
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Tips from wikiHow
- Note that there are two types of beef tripe.
- Clean the tripe well by rubbing it with rock salt and rinsing it.
- Cook the tripe slowly in a court bouillon made with an onion, a carrot, a celery stalk, a few parsley sprigs, a bay leaf and some cloves and peppercorns.
- Cook it until the tripe is tender, 1 to 3 hours.
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