Posted on 08/02/2026 11:02:00 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Many of you have probably enjoyed tacos de lengua or tongue tacos. However, few of you have ever tried arepas de lengua. In this video I show you the steps I took to create arepas de lenga. Beside the obvious difference of using arepas instead of tortillas, the arepas de lengua are also cooked in tomato sauce instead of having salsa verde added to it. A two step process is used to cook the tongues. First the tongues are boiled and then they are barbequed. The latter step added TREMENDOUS flavor to the tongues as you can physically see with the smoke rings. In this case I used cherry wood for its sweet flavor.
After the tongues were smoked and sliced they were added to the homemade tomato sauce and allowed to stew in it for about 40 minutes. The final step was simply adding the tomato sauce soaked tongue slices to the arepa pockets for serving.
p.s. Less than half of the charcoal snake was burned so I was able to keep the unburned charcoals for future use. A big advantage of using the snake method in BBQing since it allows you to use only the exact amount of fuel you need to smoke your meats.
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Bkmk
You don't know where that tongue has been!..............
Bite your tongue!..................
I don’t want to eat anything that can taste me back.
There’a an innuendo in there somewhere.
He said ‘Moo’
Well, it certainly was a taste treat. Plus it had not a bit of toughness. Over four hours of boiling and smoking will do that. I plan to do it again with a bit of variation on the recipe.
I had a friend who slaughtered his own cattle and cured the tongues himself. He would always carry one in his pocket while he worked on the farm, and shave off a piece for a snack now and then. I tried it. Once, never gain - largely just the idea of it put me off.
But, you enjoy.
Back in the nineteenth century when the white hunters would wipe out the buffalo herds, the one part that they made sure to take were the tongues because pickled buffalo tongues were considered to be a delicacy back East. The rest of the buffalo were left to rot.
,,, thanks for posting this. How long is the smoking time?
Very sad.
Here in Southern California, King Taco, a chain of restaurants located mostly in Mexican communities makes the best burritos. The choice of meat includes tongue and pork belly as well as the more conventional beef, pork and chicken.
Whatever time it takes to reach 205 internal degrees in the tongue. Usually a couple of hours but when it hits 205 degrees internal, I pull them right then.
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