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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