Sous Vide Cooking: How to Get Started | Serious Eats

With sous vide cooking, there's no way for that flavor to escape the bag. Meanwhile, spices rubbed on the surface of the meat have a tendency to get rinsed off by any juices that are being expressed. The short answer is that it's very tough to predict exactly how spices are going to react in a sous vide bag. If you have a well-tested recipe you ...

Sous Vide Recipes | Serious Eats

Sous Vide Recipes. Fallen in love with the consistency, convenience, and superior results of sous vide cooking? We don't blame you. Our recipes for sous vide steak, chicken breast, seafood, and much more will keep that fancy little precision cooker of yours busy for months.

Sous Vide Steaks Recipe | Serious Eats

Sous vide is the ideal way to prepare steak for perfectly even edge-to-edge cooking and foolproof results. These sous vide steaks can be finished in a pan or on the grill. Get these ingredients for curbside pickup or delivery!

Sous Vide Pork Tenderloin Recipe | Serious Eats

Small enough to cook relatively quickly, but large and elegant enough to make a centerpiece roast, pork tenderloin is the kind of dish to pull out when you're feeling extra fancy on a weeknight. Sous vide is the most foolproof way to get it on the table with consistently great flavor and a buttery, ultra-tender texture.

Sous Vide Smoked Brisket Recipe | Serious Eats

Good brisket is often called the Holy Grail of barbecue—an apt description, given how rarely you find good smoked beef brisket in the wild. Sous vide cooking changes all that by allowing even a novice to produce brisket that's as moist and tender as the very best stuff you'll find in Austin or Lockhart, with all the savory brisket rub and smoky flavor you could want.

Sous Vide Sausages Recipe | Serious Eats

Cooking sausages sous vide gives you complete control over their finished texture and juiciness. Browning the sausages on the grill or in a skillet after cooking them sous vide gives them color and external texture. Read more: The Food Lab's Guide to Sous Vide Sausage.

Overnight Sous Vide Bacon Recipe | Serious Eats

I was skeptical of the idea of sous vide bacon. I generally prefer my bacon cooked completely crisp, rather than trying to get bacon that's crisp and moist at the same time. But bacon cooked sous vide overnight is the first I've ever tasted that delivers on that moist-and-crisp promise. It's crispy on the exterior as you bite into it, but it quite literally melts in your mouth, like the finest ...

Butter-Basted Sous Vide Halibut Recipe | Serious Eats

Halibut aren't terribly fun to fish (think: reeling up a 200-pound bath mat through hundreds of feet of icy-cold water), but man, are they delicious! Firm yet flaky, with a heartier texture and flavor than other widely available white fish on the market. Halibut cooks more like a thick steak—well-browned and -crusted on the outside, with a juicy, tender center.

Sous Vide Glazed Carrots Recipe | Serious Eats

Preheat sous vide precision cooker to 183°F. Place carrots, butter, sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt in a vacuum bag and seal according to manufacturer's instructions. Cook carrots in the water bath until fully tender, about 1 hour. At this point, carrots can be stored in refrigerator for up to 1 week.

How to Cook Juicy Sous Vide Shrimp | The Food Lab ...

Cooking sous vide affords you the opportunity to infuse the shrimp with flavor while they cook. In this guide, I'm offering both a simple poached shrimp recipe, as well as a recipe for shrimp flavored Spanish-style with garlic, olive oil, sherry, and smoked paprika.

Sous Vide Steak Guide | The Food Lab | Serious Eats

A sous vide steak will take an hour or more, though, with sous vide cooking, this time is almost 100% hands-off. You will not achieve the exact same sear. Flag-waving sous vide zealots may claim otherwise, but the rapid sear you achieve after cooking sous vide will not be as thick or crusty as the sear you get from a traditional cooking method.

Sous Vide Salmon Recipe | Serious Eats

Sous Vide Salmon Recipe. The Food Lab. Unraveling the mysteries of home cooking through science. J. Kenji López-Alt. 19 Printer-Friendly Version. A step-by-step guide to perfectly cooked sous vide salmon, every time. Published: August 31, 2016 Last Updated: May 28, 2020

Sous Vide Vegetable Recipes | Serious Eats

Sous Vide Vegetable Recipes. Carrot Sous Vide Glazed Carrots J. Kenji López-Alt. View All Sous Vide; Vegetable; SORT BY: MOST POPULAR MOST POPULAR MOST RECENT Beans and Pulses Dosa (Indian Rice-and-Lentil Crepes) These fermented lentil-and-rice crepes have the punch of tangy sourdough, with a crisp and chewy texture. ...

Sous Vide Pork Chops Recipe | Serious Eats

Preheat a sous vide cooker to the desired final temperature according to the chart below. Season pork chops generously with salt and pepper. Place in sous vide bags along with herbs, garlic, and shallots (if using) and distribute evenly. Seal bags and place in water bath for time recommended in chart below.

6 Sous Vide Beef Recipes for Steaks, Burgers, Brisket, and ...

So, of course, we developed recipes for sous vide brisket and heartier cuts like beef chuck. But we also think sous vide can be the perfect cooking method for steaks, burgers, and even tongue. ChefSteps Joule Sous Vide Review: The Best Immersion Circulators 19 % lower than usual Updated hourly $179.99 from Amazon.

Sous Vide Barbecue Pork Ribs Recipe | Serious Eats

Sous vide precision cooker, spice grinder, vacuum sealer, charcoal or gas grill (if finishing on the grill), 2 rimmed baking sheets and 2 wire racks (if finishing in the oven) Notes Prague Powder #1 can be added to give the ribs a red "smoke" ring.

Guide to Sous Vide Eggs | The Food Lab | Serious Eats

Sous-vide eggs made their way around pretty much every fancy restaurant's menu in some form or another between five and ten years ago. It's one of the easiest and best uses of a sous-vide style water circulator—it required no expensive vacuum sealer (the eggs cook directly in their shells), and it allowed chefs to achieve textures with eggs ...

Low-Carb Sous Vide Recipes | Serious Eats

Sous Vide Leg of Lamb With Mint, Cumin, and Black Mustard. Robustly flavored leg of lamb—perfectly cooked, thanks to a sous vide circulator—can stand up to an intense seasoning of crunchy mustard seeds and cumin. J. Kenji López-Alt

Sous Vide Chicken Breast Recipe | Serious Eats

Cooking chicken sous vide allows for unparalleled control over cooking temperature and, therefore, level of juiciness. Following precise temperature and time charts gives you the ability to get exactly the result you want.

Sous Vide Tacos de Lengua Recipe | Serious Eats

Enter sous vide. Not only does cooking a tongue sous vide make for complete set-it-and-forget-it ease (as it does with any braised or confit dish), it also creates a more flavorful finished product as the tongue slowly stews in its own juices.

Sous Vide Chicken Recipes | Serious Eats

Sous Vide Chicken Recipes. View All Sous Vide; Chicken; American Sous Vide Buffalo Chicken Wings Daniel Gritzer. SORT BY: MOST POPULAR MOST POPULAR MOST RECENT Chicken Sous Vide Chicken Breast J. Kenji López-Alt. Chicken Crispy Sous-Vide Chicken Thighs With Mustard-Wine Pan Sauce ...

Sous Vide Duck Confit Recipe | Serious Eats

[Video: The Serious Eats Team, Photograph: Emily Dryden] There are few preparations better suited to sous vide cooking than confit, a technique that traditionally involves gently cooking a meat in its own rendered fat. When you use sous vide to make duck confit, there’s no need for any extra rendered fat, because the small amount that renders from the duck legs in the tightly sealed vacuum ...

Dairy-Free Sous Vide Recipes | Serious Eats

Sous Vide Leg of Lamb With Mint, Cumin, and Black Mustard. Robustly flavored leg of lamb—perfectly cooked, thanks to a sous vide circulator—can stand up to an intense seasoning of crunchy mustard seeds and cumin. J. Kenji López-Alt

Sous Vide Seafood Recipes | Serious Eats

Sous Vide Seafood Recipes. Dairy-Free Sous Vide Salmon J. Kenji López-Alt. View All Sous Vide; Seafood; SORT BY: MOST POPULAR MOST POPULAR MOST RECENT Easter Butter-Basted Sous Vide Halibut. Tender, buttery, and meaty halibut for dinner. J. Kenji López-Alt. Dairy-Free ...

Sous Vide Egg Recipes | Serious Eats

Sous Vide Egg Recipes. View All Sous Vide; Egg; SORT BY: MOST POPULAR MOST POPULAR MOST RECENT Eggs Sous Vide Soft Boiled Eggs J. Kenji López-Alt. Eggs Sous Vide Soft Poached Eggs J. Kenji López-Alt. Eggs Sous Vide Egg Souffle Linda Miller Nicholson. Breakfast and Brunch Sous Vide Egg and Mashed Potato Breakfast Jars ...

Sous Vide Burgers Recipe | Serious Eats

You might ask, why sous-vide a hamburger? It's one of the simplest foods to make using traditional methods, so does precision cooking really have anything to bring to the table? For larger burgers, of the six- to eight-ounce range, sous-vide precision cooking is a wonderful method of ensuring that your burger comes out with an unparalleled level of juiciness every single time.

Recipes by Method | Serious Eats

The Best Immersion Circulators for Sous Vide Cooking. Which immersion circulator should you choose to live la sous-vide-a-loca? Sasha Marx. Baking Our Top 6 Dutch-Style Cocoas for Brownies, Hot Chocolate, and More. Dutch-style cocoas are alkaline and dark, with a flavor that's earthy and deep. These six brands are guaranteed to please.

5 Sous Vide Seafood Recipes for Perfect Lobster, Shrimp ...

Sous vide might as well have been designed for cooking tuna. With so much control over final doneness and texture, you can achieve nearly raw, firm and moist, meaty, or—if you're into it—even crumbly canned-style tuna. Sous Vide Tuna Recipe » Back to the full list. Sous Vide Salmon [Photograph: J. Kenji López-Alt]

BraveTart's Ultimate Guide to Sous Vide Desserts | Serious ...

We already know that sous vide is a fantastic cooking method for eggs, thanks to Kenji's carefully researched temperatures and timetables for soft-poached eggs, but sugar delays coagulation by a significant degree, throwing that data out the window.That's why cooking whole eggs to a mere 165°F will make a rubbery mess out of egg whites, but my Swiss meringue is still tender and soft even when ...

11 Sous Vide Pork Recipes for Tender, Juicier Meat ...

Sous vide may well be the best way to cook sausage. The slow cooking ensures the meat doesn't lose any juiciness, and finishing the sausages on a grill or in a skillet makes them nice and crisp on the outside. Sous Vide Sausages Recipe » Back to the full list. Sous Vide Barbecue Pork Ribs [Photograph: J. Kenji López-Alt]

Perfectly Tender Sous Vide Octopus Recipe | Serious Eats

Preheat a sous vide cooker to 175°F (79°C). If you want to guarantee a good shape for the octopus tentacles (this is optional, but visually nice), bring a large pot of water to a boil over high heat.

Sous Vide 101: Duck Breast Recipe | Serious Eats

This recipe requires the use of a sous-vide cooker or the beer cooler hack. As a meat that is best served medium rare, duck breast makes an ideal candidate to cook sous-vide. By cooking it at 130°F for two hours, much of the fat under the skin begins to soften and render out while the proteins in it begin to set, making it easier to crisp ...

How to Cook Sous Vide Chicken Breast | The Food Lab ...

Yet sous vide–style precision cooking often takes place well below the 140°F mark, in excess of four hours, and my own recommendation for cooking chicken falls in the 145–150°F (63–66°C) range, well below the 165°F target we've all learned.

How To Make Sous Vide Chicken Thighs With Crispy Skin ...

Sous-vide chicken is so darn juicy, it doesn't really need a sauce, but it seemed a shame to waste the gelatin-rich meat juices that collect in the sous-vide bags after cooking chicken thighs. I used that gelled liquid as the base for a quick and easy pan sauce with whole mustard seed, wine, and butter.

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How to Cook Sous Vide Pork Tenderloin | The Food Lab ...

Cooking sous vide solves both of these problems. Flavor-wise, it's easy to add aromatics or spices to the sous vide bag along with the pork, building that flavor right into the meat. (You can reinforce the flavor with more aromatics when you subsequently sear the roast.) As for texture, with sous vide cooking, overcooked meat is a thing of the ...

How to Cook Sous Vide Halibut | The Food Lab | Serious Eats

Some recipes for sous vide halibut recommend soaking the fish in a saltwater brine before cooking, in order to season it more deeply and to give it a denser, firmer texture. I tried cooking a few pieces of halibut side by side: one plain, one soaked in a liquid salt and sugar brine, one soaked in a plain salt brine, one rubbed (dry-brined) with ...

Sous Vide Carnitas for Tacos (Crispy Mexican-Style Pulled ...

Cooking Temperatures for Sous Vide Carnitas; 145°F (63°C) for 24 to 36 hours: Very tender and moist; not very shreddable. Better for cubing or searing as slabs. 165°F (74°C) for 12 to 24 hours: Moist and easy to shred with your hands or forks: 185°F (85°C) for 8 to 16 hours:

Taco Recipes | Serious Eats

Sous Vide Carnitas for Tacos (Crispy Mexican-Style Pulled Pork) J. Kenji López-Alt. SORT BY: MOST POPULAR MOST POPULAR MOST RECENT ... Recipe Collections & Menus. Recipe Collections 8 Essential Tex-Mex Dishes Nick Kindelsperger. Menus Serious Entertaining: Taco Night Carrie Vasios Mullins.

Steak Recipes | Serious Eats

Recipe Collections & Menus. Grilling 20 Grilled-Steak Recipes to Conquer Summer. 20 steak recipes to get the most out of grilling season. Rabi Abonour. ... Dry-Aged, Sous Vide, Torched-and-Seared Bone-In Ribeyes (a.k.a. The Ultimate Steak) The ultimate steak experience. Period. J. Kenji López-Alt.

Pork Recipes | Serious Eats

From sous vide barbecue ribs to pressure cooker pasta sauce, let these recipes transport you to a pork-filled paradise. Appetizers and Hors d'Oeuvres Bánh Tráng Nướng (Grilled Vietnamese Rice Paper With Egg, Pork, and Condiments)

Beef Recipes | Serious Eats

Beef Recipes. Fall-apart roasts in the pressure cooker, juicy steaks off the grill, and all the other beef you might desire.

How to Cook Sous Vide Barbecue Ribs | The Food Lab ...

Some sous vide recipes use a hybrid method, either starting or finishing the ribs in the smoker to add real smoke flavor to them. To me, this seems to miss the point. If I'm willing to fire up the smoker, then there are any number of traditional recipes out there that don't necessarily require sous vide for great results.

Sous Vide Pork Shoulder Chashu Recipe | Serious Eats

Sous Vide: Beef Tenderloin with Lemon-Parsley Butter; Dosa (Indian Rice-and-Lentil Crepes) Dry-Aged, Sous Vide, Torched-and-Seared Bone-In Ribeyes (a.k.a. The Ultimate Steak) Deep-Fried, Sous Vide, 36-Hour, All-Belly Porchetta; Sous Vide Shrimp With Garlic, Sherry, and Smoked Paprika; View All Sous Vide Recipes

Chicken Recipes | Serious Eats

These recipes prove how many directions you can take a simple piece of chicken. Take full advantage of its tender meat with hot soups, cold salads, and easy oven-baked recipes. ... The Food Lab's Guide to Crispy Sous Vide Chicken Thighs. Dozens of tests later, here's @thefoodlab's guide to the best sous-vide chicken thighs. J. Kenji López-Alt.

Recipes by Ingredient | Serious Eats

Cooking Techniques 3 Ways to Make Delicious Mashed Potatoes in Advance. Sour cream mashed potatoes, classic mashed potatoes, sous vide mashed potatoes—whatever the method, here are the best methods for making mashed potatoes in advance.

The Best Sous Vide Machines (Immersion Circulators) | 2019 ...

Sous vide cooking exploded in popularity, and companies recognized the business opportunity in introducing immersion circulators to consumers as a new home-kitchen appliance. An arms race of sorts ensued, with companies competing to establish dominance in a new market by making devices that were increasingly affordable.

Main Dish Recipes | Serious Eats

Christmas Ultra-Crispy Slow-Roasted Pork Shoulder. Pull-apart tender meat and ultra-crisp skin: It's not the most gorgeous roast in the world, but you'd be hard pressed to find one more flavorful.