Suya Ox Tongue With Smoked Bone Marrow Emulsion And Wild Garlic Capers
  1. Wash the wild garlic buds and then mix with salt and vacuum seal. Store in the fridge for one month

  2. Rinse the salt from the wild garlic buds

  3. Bring vinegar, soy sauce, sugar and water to a boil and then allow to cool

  4. Add to the wild garlic buds and vacuum seal and store in the fridge. Leave for at least 1 week before using

  5. Trim sinew and excess fat from ox tongue and put everything into a pressure cooker, bring up to pressure and cook for 45 minutes on a low pressure

  6. Depressurise the pressure cooker, remove from the bag, and peel the outer skin from the tongue

  7. Place the tongue on a flat tray with parchment paper and press with another tray on top. Add some heavy weights and leave to cool down in the fridge until cold

  8. Combine all the ingredients for the suya spice mix and blend in a high speed blender into a fine powder crumble

  9. Combine all the suya glaze ingredients with 25g suya spice mix in a pot and cook on very low heat, for about 15 minutes, stirring continuously until thick

  10. Place all the ingredients for the bone marrow emulsion into a vacuum bag, and cook sous vide at 75°C for 30 minutes

  11. Blend with a stick blender until emulsified and then add to a whipping siphon with a charge. Once aerated, transfer to a piping bag

  12. Slice the ox tongue on a meat slicer at 5mm thickness (approx. 10 slices per serving) or with a sharp knife

  13. Roll the slices into little logs, then pierce and arrange neatly onto a metal skewer

  14. Brush suya spice glaze onto meat and grill on a BBQ for 1–2 minutes on each side until caramelised

  15. Place onto a plate and pipe bone marrow sabayon next to it. Spoon 1 tbsp of extra suya spice crumble if desired and garnish with some wild garlic capers

Course🍽️Main Course

Diets🌾Gluten-free🥩Carnivore...

Category🍽️Main Course

CuisineNigerian

OccasionsGourmet Dinner🎉Special Occasion

Season🔁Year-round

DifficultyHard ⏰ 3h

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