Tripe
Tripe is a type of edible lining from the stomachs of various farm animals. Most tripe is from cattle and sheep.
World Tripe Day is celebrated on 24 October, according to the Tripe Marketing Board, because in 1662 Samuel Pepys wrote on that day "So home and dined there with my wife upon a most excellent dish of tripes of my own directing."
Types of tripe
Beef tripe
Beef tripe is made from the muscle wall of only the first three chambers of a cow's stomach: the rumen, the reticulum, and the omasum. Abomasum tripe is seen less frequently, owing to its glandular tissue content.Other animals
Tripe refers to cow stomach, but includes stomach of any ruminant including cattle, sheep, deer, antelope, giraffes, and their relatives. Tripas, the related Spanish word, also refers to culinary dishes produced from any animal with a stomach. In some cases, other names have been applied to the 'tripe' of other animals. For example, tripe from pigs may be referred to as paunch, pig bag, or hog maw.Washed tripe
Washed tripe is more typically known as dressed tripe. To dress the tripe, the stomachs are cleaned and the fat trimmed off. It is then boiled and bleached, giving it the white color more commonly associated with tripe as seen on market stalls and in butchers' shops. The task of dressing the tripe is usually carried out by a professional tripe dresser.Dressed tripe was a popular, nutritious and cheap dish for the British working classes from Victorian times until the latter half of the 20th century. While it is still popular in many parts of the world today, the number of tripe eaters, and consequently the number of tripe dressers, in the UK has rapidly declined. Tripe has come to be regarded as a pet food, as the increased affluence of postwar Britain has reduced the appeal of this once staple food.
It remains a popular dish in many parts of continental Europe such as Spain, France and Italy. In France, a very popular dish, sold in most supermarkets, is tripes à la mode de Caen. In Spain callos a la madrileña are served as tapas in many restaurants as well as in supermarkets.
Dishes prepared with tripe
Tripe is eaten in many parts of the world.Tripe soup is made in many varieties in the Eastern European cuisine.
Tripe dishes include:
- Andouille — French poached, boiled and smoked cold tripe sausage
- Andouillette — French grilling sausage including beef tripe and pork
- Babat — Indonesian spicy beef tripe dish, could be fried with spices or served as soup as soto babat
- Bak kut teh — A Chinese herbal soup popularly served in Malaysia and Singapore with pork tripe, meat and ribs.
- Bao du — Chinese quick-boiled beef or lamb tripe
- Breakfast sausages — Most commercially produced sausages in the United States contain pork and beef tripe as filler
- Bumbar — A Bosnian dish where the tripe is stuffed with other beef parts
- Butifarra/Botifarra — Colombian or Catalan sausage
- Caldume — a Sicilian stew or soup
- Callos — Spanish tripe dish cooked with chickpea, chorizo and paprika
- Cau-cau — Peruvian stew of cow tripe, potatoes, mint, and other spices and vegetables
- Chakna — Indian spicy stew of goat tripe and other animal parts
- Ciorbă de burtă — Romanian special soup with cream and garlic
- Cow foot soup — Belize — Seasoned, tenderly cook cow tripe and foot, aromatic and ground vegetables with macaroni in a rich glutinous soup.
- Cuajito - made from pig stomach eaten with boiled plantains from Puerto Rico.
- Dobrada — Portuguese tripe dish usually made with white butterbeans, carrots and chouriço served with white rice.
- Dršťkovka — Czech goulash-like tripe soup
- Fasulia bil karsha — Libyan kidney bean soup with tripe
- Fried Tripe Sandwich – Popular in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Držková — Slovak tripe soup
- Dulot or dulet — Eritrean and Ethiopian tripe and entrail stir-fry, containing finely chopped tripe, liver and ground beef, lamb or goat fried in clarified and spiced butter, with garlic, parsley and berbere
- Ebyenda or byenda — word for tripe in some Bantu languages of Uganda, tripe may be stewed, but is especially popular when cooked with matooke as a breakfast dish
- Fileki or špek-fileki — Croatian tripe soup
- Flaczki or flaki — Polish soup, with marjoram
- Fuqi feipian or 夫妻肺片— spicy and "numbing" Chinese cold dish made from various types of beef offal, nowadays mainly thinly sliced tendon, tripe and sometimes tongue
- Gopchang jeongol - a spicy Korean stew or casserole made by boiling beef tripe, vegetables, and seasonings in beef broth
- Goto - Filipino gruel with tripe.
- Guatitas — Ecuadorian and Chilean tripe stew, often served with peanut sauce in Ecuador
- Gulai babat — Indonesian Minang tripe curry
- Guru — Zimbabwean name for tripe, normally eaten as relish with sadza
- Haggis — Scottish traditional dish made of a sheep's stomach stuffed with oatmeal and the minced heart, liver and lungs of a sheep. The stomach is used only as a vessel for the stuffing and is not eaten.
- İşkembe çorbası — Turkish tripe soup with garlic, lemon, and spices
- Kare-kare — Filipino oxtail-peanut stew which may include tripe
- Kersha — Egyptian tripe stew with Chickpea and tomato sauce.
- "Kirxa" - In Malta this is popular traditional dish stewed in curry.
- Khash — In Armenia, this popular winter soup is made of boiled beef tendon and honeycomb tripe, and served with garlic and lavash bread.
- Kista — Assyrian cooked traditionally in a stew and stuffed with soft rice, part of a major dish known as pacha in Assyrian.
- Laray — Curried tripe dish popular in Afghanistan and in the northern region of Pakistan. Eaten with naan/roti.
- Lampredotto — Florentine abomasum-tripe dish, often eaten in sandwiches with green sauce and hot sauce
- Mala Mogodu — South African cuisine — popular tripe dish, often eaten at dinner time as a stew with hot pap
- Matumbo — Kenyan cuisine — tripe dish, often eaten as a stew with various accompaniments
- Mutura Kenyan cuisine-tripe sausage, stuffed with blood, organ and other meat, roasted
- Menudo — Mexican tripe and hominy stew
- Mondongo — Latin American and Caribbean tripe, vegetable, and herb soup
- Motsu — Japanese tripe served either simmered or in nabemono, such as Motsunabe
- Mumbar beef or sheep tripe stuffed with rice, typical dish in Adana in southern Turkey
- Niubie A kind of Chinese huoguo, popular in the Qiandongnan prefecture of Guizhou province in southwest China and traditionally eaten by the Dong and Miao peoples, the dish includes the stomach and small intestine of cattle. Bile from the gall bladder and the half-digested contents of the stomach give the dish a unique, slightly bitter flavour. It can also be made with the offal of a goat, which is called yangbie.
- Pacal — Hungarian spicy meal made of tripe, similar to pörkölt
- Pacha — Iraqi and Assyrian cuisine, tripe and intestines stuffed with garlic rice and meat
- Packet and Tripe— Irish meal which is when tripe is boiled in water, then strained off and then simmered in a pot with milk, onions, salt and pepper. Served hot with cottage bread/ Bread rolls. Popular in Co.Limerick
- Pancitas — Mexican stew similar to menudo, but made with sheep stomach
- Pancita — Peruvian spicy barbecue fried food made with beef tripe marinated with peppers and other ingredients
- Papaitan — Filipino goat or beef tripe and offal soup flavored with bile
- Sekba — a Chinese Indonesian pork offals including tripes stewed in mild soy sauce-based soup.
- Serobe — a Botswana delicacy, mixed with intestines and in some occasions with beef meat
- Shkembe — a kind of tripe soup, prepared in Iran, Bulgaria, Romania, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Turkey, schkæm is the Persian word for stomach, sirabi is the Iranian version of shkembe
- Skembici — Serbia, one of the oldest known dishes since 13th century, tripe in vegetable stew with herbs, served with boiled potato
- Soto babat — Indonesian spicy tripe soup
- Tablier de sapeur, a speciality of Lyon
- Tkalia — Moroccan spiced, seasoned in a sauce with vegetables and served on cous-cous
- Tripice- Croatia, stew made with Tripe, boiled with potato and bacon added for flavour.
- Tripes à la mode de Caen — in Normandy, this is a traditional stew made with tripe. It has a very codified recipe, preserved by the brotherhood of "La tripière d'or" that organises a competition every year to elect the world's best tripes à la mode de Caen maker.
- Tripe and beans — in Jamaica, this is a thick, spicy stew made with tripe and broad beans.
- Tripe and drisheen — in Cork, Ireland
- Tripe and onions — in Northern England
- Tripes in Nigerian tomato sauce- tripe are cooked till tender and finished in spicy tomato sauce
- Tripe taco — Mexican sheep or calf tripe dish with tortillas
- Tripoux — Occitan sheep tripe dish traditional in Rouergue
- Trippa di Moncalieri — in Moncalieri city/Piedmont/Italy
- Trippa alla fiorentina — in Italy
- Trippa alla Pisana - in Pisa, Italy: onion, celery, carrot, garlic fried in oil, with tomatoes and pancetta or guanciale, topped with parmigiano cheese
- Trippa alla Romana — in Italy
- Trippa alla Savoiarda — in Piedmont/Italy
- Trippe alla Veneta
- Tsitsarong bulaklak — Filipino crunchy fried tripe
- Tuslama / Tuzlama — tripe stew specific to south-eastern Romania, a blend of Romanian and Turkish
- Yakiniku and horumonyaki — Japanese chargrilled, bite-sized
- Vampi — Slovenian tripe stew
- Vajri Khudi - traditional variation of a
- Vette darmen — Traditional, though now on the verge of being obsolete, West Flemish dish, the tripe is seasoned and fried in a buttered pan.
- Ojree — Pakistani curry made from finely chopped and tenderized goat tripe
- Osben — Tunisian cow or sheep tripe filled with meat and vegetables and generally cooked with Couscous
- Laray — Pakistan -, fried with traditional spices. 2. Da Laray Pikaorae — square small pieces mixed with chickpea flour with traditional spices and deep fried.
- Obe ata pelu Shaaki — Nigerian stew made with large chunk of beef and goat tripe
- Pepper soup with tripe — Nigerian hot peppered liquid soup with bite-sized tripe
- 牛肚 / 金錢肚 — Chinese cuisine tripe with inner lining resembling ancient Chinese coin with square hole, gives its name: "coin stomach". The dish is usually served steamed with spring onion and garlic sauce, or just boiled in water served with sweet soya sauce with chilli and spring onions as a dipping sauce.
- Tripas à moda do Porto — tripe with white beans, in Portuguese cuisine, a dish typical of the city of Porto. It is called dobrada elsewhere in Portugal.
- Tripe soup — in Jordan, this is a stew made with tripe and tomato sauce.
- Tripe soup — in Somalia, and Djibouti known as calooley is a stew made with different sauces.
Related dishes
- Tacos de tripa — Mexican tacos filled with soft or crunchy fried small intestines
Beef tripe is also a common man's meat in Kerala, India. Beef tripe and tapioca is a traditional wedding eve dinner for the Christians in some parts of Kerala.