meal sous-vide recipe

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Take some planning, but not much work. Absolutely fabulous.

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Ingredients

  • 1.5 bottle of red wine
  • 8 Short Ribs or so
  • 4 Garlic Cloves
  • 1 Onion
  • 1 carrot
  • 2-3 sprigs of Thyme
  • 2 Bay leaves
  • 1/4 cup of tomato paste
  • 1 Beef stock concentrate (something like here)
  • 30 gr of butter
  • Salt & Pepper
  • Olive Oil

Method

  1. Preheat your water bath to 62 °C

  2. Peel and smash the garlic

  3. Peel and cut  roughly onion and carrot

  4. Salt and pepper on the ribs

  5. In a large sauce pan, heat some oil to medium high

  6. brown the short ribs, set aside

  7. In the same pan, add some oil

  8. Add onion, carrot

  9. Let caramelize a bit

  10. Add garlic

  11. Add tomato paste

  12. Add Thyme and Bay leaves

  13. Cook for a minute or so

  14. Add the beef stock

  15. Add the wine (remember crappy wine, crappy sauce!, but don’t go overboard either)

  16. Reduce by half

  17. Set aside to cool

  18. 30 mn later

  19. Pass the wine through a colander to strain the liquid from the veggies, discard the veggies

  20. Prepare your bags with 2-3 ribs per bag, add some sauce,

  21. If you still have some sauce left, reserve and place into the refrigerator for later

  22. Seal the bags and place into the water bath for 3 days

  23. …3 days later

  24. Take the meat out of the bags, you can debone. Set the meat aside, keep warm

  25. Place the remaining liquid into a pan (take the leftover from the fridge)

  26. Reduce to concentrate the juices

  27. Taste and adjust salt and pepper

  28. Finish with some cold butter 

Goes great with mash potatoes.

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Sous-Vide
Serve4
Preparation Time15 mn + 30 mn
Cooking Time (sous-vide)72 h
Cooking Time (traditional)30-60 mn
Temperature62 °C
AuthorsPascal Crausaz
Special1 Quart Heat-Seal Storage bag
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