Beef sweetbreads recipes

Learn about these organ meats and how to prepare them at home.

Our buttermilk fried sweetbreads recipe takes a little effort, but the resulting nuggets - crispy on the outside and creamy and mild on the inside - are totally worth it.

You can sauté or pan-fry the sweetbreads with whatever flavors you like. This time, I used mustard seed and turmeric, sautéed with plenty of onions and chili peppers, for a vaguely Indian preparation that tasted nice with fragrant basmati on the side.

For this recipe, we took the hot chicken trend to the next level by breading and frying creamy veal sweetbreads in this Nashville-inspired dish.

The sweetbreads I’m discussing and cooking with today are considered offal. To look at sweetbreads, one would make the common mistake of thinking they are brains (in fact they are not). Sweet…

Contrary to popular belief, sweetbreads are not brains. Though, for some form of strange entertainment, we could pretend they are brains anyways at the coming of the zombie Apocalypse. Sweetbreads is the thymus gland is located at the throat, gullet or neck. Or the pancreas (heart belly or stomach). And, most famously, "Rocky Mountain Oysters", are also the same gland that in the food world we call sweetbreads. The etymology of the word "sweetbread", considering it is not a bread, nor is it…

Sweetbreads might be one of those “love them or hate them” foods, but pan-fried and finished with a lemony butter sauce, served with caramelised onions, they are a real treat.

Buy veal sweetbreads. Our sweetbreads offer a mild flavor and tender, creamy texture. From milk-fed veal that's humanely-raised with no antibiotics or hormones.

Grilling sweetbreads gives them a crispy crust that contrasts beautifully with their creamy, tender interior. In Argentina, sweetbreads are usually grilled whole, but we find people are less intimidated by them when they're prepared this way — separated into pieces. As with all offal, be sure the sweetbreads are very fresh.