Anova Sous Vide
Cookbook for Beginners
Tasty, Easy & Simple Recipes for Your Anova
Sous Vide to Make at Home Everyday
James Harris
Copyright 2019 by James Harris
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INTRODUCTION
Tired of fattening food with the nutrients cooked out, or merely tired of paying big bucks at restaurants for healthy, delicious meals? Step into the world of juicy, simple, and healthy cooking with this gorgeous collection of 75 Sous Vide recipes.
Whether youre new to Sous Vide cooking and eager to learn or youre familiar with it and need to try your hand at some more recipes, this collection has scrumptious ideas to suit every taste and occasion. Start out with our basic methods and become a pro. We offer easy-to-follow cooking steps with ingredients that are readily available. Creating foods precisely like a chef couldnt be easier.
A QUICK INTRODUCTION TO SOUS VIDE
Sous Vide
Sous Vide is an old method of cooking meaning cooking under vacuum and expanded to mean cooking food in a vacuum under particular or controlled temperatures for a more extended period than you will in regular cooking.
This technique for the longest time had been one of the fanciest tricks in which restaurants made good food that looked and tasted very different from food made at home. Now, Sous Vide has become a household way of cooking with many Sous Vide cookers available and affordable just so that home-cooked foods can also be as good.
The results of Sous Vide food are known to be moderately cooked, leaving the food juicy, healthy, and beautiful to behold. They are made to prepare under vacuum, allowing their natural juices to do the job of cooking, hence the fresh look when ready. So, for example, a bunch of French beans may be Sous Vide and will turn out juicy to the taste and will maintain a naturally bright green color. With regular cooking, the French beans might be drier when chewed and will have a darker and dull green color when done.
Sous Vide cooking is usually complete in 5-steps:
- Heating a water bath with a Sous Vide cooker in it, which is set at a particular temperature.
- Preparing your food, seasoning it, oiling it, etc. as you will desire.
Placing the food in a sealable vacuum bag, releasing air from the bag, and sealing it.
Tip: Water Displacement Method: This process helps you release air efficiently from the bag when sealing it. Place the ingredient-filled bag halfway in the water bath, and air will naturally be released from the bag. Then seal it.
- Placing the food in the water bath to cook for the desired time (see temperature guide below)
- Searing the food with heat, if desired.
The essential utensils or equipment to Sous Vide with are:
- Sous Vide cooker - there are many brands and options on the market.
- Water bath - usually to be prepared in a deep container, however, some Sous Vide machines are designed to include this feature.
- Vacuum bag - food is placed in this bag and cooked under temperature. It has to be sealable and made of light plastic. A plastic zipper bag can serve this purpose well.
Cooking Sous Vide is such a fantastic method of cooking which allows you to prepare delicious, healthy food with no restrictions on the food type. It is, in short, a set and go kind of an approach to cooking. All that matters is ensuring that the temperatures, as well as cooking time, are set correctly, and voila, you will have fantastic food.
A temperature and time guide is provided here to help you make amazing dishes the Sous Vide way.
Sous Vide Temperature and Time Guide
Temperatures and Time can be adjusted as desired**
Food | Temperature | Time (MIN - MAX) |
Eggs |
Soft Yolks | 140 F | 1 HR |
Hard-Cooked | 160 F | 45 MIN -------------- 1 HR 15 MIN |
Scrambled (5 eggs) | 167 F | 45 MIN -------------- 1 HR 15 MIN |
Sausages |
Soft and extra juicy | 140 F | 45 MIN -------------- 4 HR |
Firm | 150 F | 45 MIN -------------- 4 HR |
Springy | 160 F | 45 MIN -------------- 4 HR |
Hamburger |
Rare | 115-123F | 30 MIN -------------- 2 HR 30 MIN |
Medium Rare | 124-129F | 30 MIN -------------- 2 HR 30 MIN |
Medium | 130-137F | 30 MIN -------------- 4 HR |
Medium Well | 138-144F | 30 MIN -------------- 4 HR |
Medium Done | 145-155F | 30 MIN -------------- 4 HR |
Poultry (White Meat, Dark Meat, Duck - white meat) |
Medium Rare | 140 F | 1 HR 30 MIN ------ 4 HR |
Medium | 145 F - 150 F | 1 HR ----------------- 4 HR |
Well Done | 175 F | 1 HR ----------------- 4 HR |
Red Meat |
Rare | 120 F |
Medium Rare | 129 F | 1 HR----------------- 2 HR 30 MIN |
Medium | 140 F | 1 HR ---------------- 4 HR |
Medium Well | 145 F | 1 HR ---------------- 3 HR 30 MIN |
Well Done | 160 F | 3 HR----------------- 6 HR |
Pork |
Medium Rare | 135 F | 1 HR ----------------- 4 HR |
Medium | 140 F | 1 HR ----------------- 4 HR |
Well Done | 160 F | 1 HR ----------------- 4 HR |
Fish & Seafood |
Tender but Translucent | 110 F | 30 MIN |
Tender and Flaky | 125 F | 30 MIN ---------------1 HR |
Well Done | 133 F | 30 MIN ---------------1 HR 30 MIN |
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