Sous Vide Recipes

Just like any other cooking technique there are countless ways to prepare sous vide foods. We cover some of the more popular sous vide recipes, things to take into account for them, and some common variations.

These sous vide recipes are intended to be used as guidelines you can use to develop your own favorite meals. If one of the recipes uses a spice you don't like or a cut of meat you do not enjoy as much go ahead and substitute it for something you prefer. These sous vide recipes definitely do not have to be taken verbatim, please make them your own!

Also. feel free to comment with suggestions, experiences, and tips of your own regarding cooking these and other sous vide recipes.

Sous Vide Recipes

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Sous Vide Salmon Recipes

If you are interested in experimenting with sous vide cooking, Salmon is a great way to get started. Salmon, and most fish, only need to be cooked for a short amount of time, normally 10-20 minutes. This makes it easier to keep the temperature constant without expensive sous vide equipment. Sous vide salmon also has a drastically different texture than normal salmon.
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Sous Vide Short Rib Recipes

Sous vide short ribs are often used as an example of how amazing sous vide cooking can be, and with good reason. This is because short ribs are composed of very tough meat and in order to tenderize them enough to eat you have to raise them to a high enough temperature to break down their collagen.
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Sous Vide BBQ Chicken Thighs Recipe

Using sous vide to cook the BBQ chicken thighs results in very tender meat. This sous vide recipe also focuses on adding the requisite smokiness you need for great BBQ chicken by grilling them at the end with BBQ sauce.
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Sous Vide Steak Salad Recipe

This sous vide recipe for steak salad is a different use of the sous vide technique. Instead of using sous vide to cook the meat for a long period of time, you use it to add perfectly medium rare steak to your salad. The thyme and garlic help add a little kick to the steak while the honey mustard dressing adds a strong flavor to the salad itself.
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Sous Vide Pork Roast Recipe

This pork roast from this sous vide recipe comes out a perfect medium rare and with a deep, porky flavor. It's wonderful served with mash potatoes and green beans or sauteed root vegetables.
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Sous Vide Beef Goulash Recipe

This sous vide recipe for beef Goulash is adapted from the recipe in the wonderful book German, Austrian, Czech and Hungarian: 70 Traditional Dishes from the Heart of European Cuisine. It's a great wintertime dish and is really hardy, especially when served with a good sticky rice or mashed potatoes. The beef is first cooked sous vide and only added to the goulash itself near the end, ensuring the meat is not overcooked.
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Sous Vide Freezer Steaks Recipe

One of the most convenient uses of sous vide cooking is to use it to defrost and cook foods that come straight from the freezer. As long as the food is vacuum sealed you can take it directly from the freezer and put it in a pre-heated water bath. Just add 15-30 minutes to the recommended cooking time from the sous vide recipe and it should come out perfectly.
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Apple Cider Sous Vide Pork Chops Recipe

The sweet apples meld perfectly with the apple cider and mustard in this sous vide recipe to really bring out the flavors of the pork chops. Using sous vide on the the pork chops ensures that they'll be perfectly cooked and tender.

Sous Vide Cook Book

Cooking Sous Vide: A Guide for the Home Cook
Sous vide cooking is quickly becoming one of the hottest culinary techniques. This book explains the basic concepts of sous vide to the home cook and presents several low-cost options for getting started. It also provides recipes, and cooking time and temperature charts to help you to begin exploring sous vide cooking.

Find out more information about Cooking Sous Vide: A Guide for the Home Cook or purchase it now on Amazon.com.


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