Have you heard of sous vide cooking? This method has left the secrecy of French restaurants and is quickly becoming a common cooking technique in household kitchens. Sous vide is a cooking approach that vacuum-seals food and immerses it in a bath of warm water. The water circulates evenly and cooks your food slowly using a controlled temperature setting. This slow and steady technique is what yields delectably tender beef, chicken, and seafood. Your proteins will retain their natural juices rather than shrink and dry out during the cooking process.
This cooking isn’t only designed for meat—you can prepare veggies, eggs, potatoes, and even fun desserts like wine-poached pears and creme brûlée. There are a few different types of sous vide machines on the market today, including immersion cookers, instant pots with a sous vide setting, and a sous vide cooking mode like the one on this Signature Kitchen Suite wall oven. But more on that later.
“What’s for dinner?” That’s the age-old question that we still hear on a routine basis. After a long day of work, that’s typically the first thing our children greet us with when we walk through the door. It seems like an easy solution to order takeout, but you can put an end to dinner drama and enjoy restaurant-quality cuisine at home with simple and tasty meals.
If you're hoping to broaden your culinary horizons, bring luxury precision to your kitchen and execute every meal to perfection with these incredibly user-friendly sous vide recipes. Whether you’re feeding yourself or a house full of hungry mouths, satisfy any appetite and discover what sous vide is all about.
How Can I Prepare Sous Vide Recipes?
Before you get started in the kitchen, you’ll need the right equipment. At Don’s Appliances, we have a few different sous vide appliance models. We offer a collection of Fisher & Paykel vacuum-seal drawers that seal food for marinating, food storage, resealing, and portion control. These drawers extend the lifespan of food by removing excess air, which is the prime reason for spoilage.
Electrolux and Electrolux Kitchen have a line of wall ovens with an Air Sous Vide mode that uses precisely controlled, low-temperature airflow to vacuum-seal ingredients to lock in the flavor and aroma of your favorite recipes. And our good friends at Wolf also have a built-in oven with precision-controlled cooking techniques like steam and sous vide.
There are plenty of options to help get you started, but we wanted to highlight the line of cooking appliances from Signature Kitchen Suite.
Signature Kitchen Suite Double Electric Wall Oven (SKSDV3002S)
With this double wall oven, luxurious cooking is at the forefront of every meal. The innovative Steam-Combi setting gives you everything you need to enjoy sous vide cooking. With a large-capacity oven for big meals and dinner parties, this versatile appliance combines steam and convection cooking for gourmet results, using the convection system to cook food quickly and evenly while steam helps to preserve texture, appearance, and taste.
This wall oven prepares food in airtight bags with precisely controlled airflow. The vacuum-sealed foods lock in maximum flavor and aroma to elevate home-cooked dishes right in the oven without the inconvenience of water baths or countertop appliances. No matter what you’re preparing, achieve delicious results that are moist and tender on the inside and crisp and flaky on the outside.
Beyond that, enjoy the convenience and flexibility to monitor your cooking from any location with built-in WiFi capability. If your oven is lightly soiled after a large meal, Speed Clean only needs 10 minutes and a little water to have your oven sparkling clean.
The Recipes
Now that you know a thing or two about sous vide cooking and some of the appliances equipped with this setting, let’s take a bite out of some delicious and easy sous vide recipes you can make at home.
1. Sous Vide Pork Chops with Corn and Red Pepper Salad
Ingredients:
- 4 pork chops
- 1 diced red bell pepper
- 1 diced yellow onion
- 2 cups of fresh or frozen corn kernels
- ¼ cup of cilantro
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Cooking oil of your choice
Directions:
- Turn on the sous vide function and set your oven to 140 degrees.
- Season pork chops with salt and pepper.
- Put your pork chops in a resealable vacuum bag. Place in the oven and cook low and slow for 1 hour.
- Heat your pan over medium heat and add your salad ingredients. Combine onion, corn, and red pepper and sauté until soft or lightly browned. Add cilantro, salt, and pepper to taste.
- After 1 hour, remove pork chops from the bag.
- Add oil back into the same pan and wait until it’s nice and hot. Sear pork chops for 1 minute on each side until you notice a golden crust.
- Be sure the pork has had plenty of time to rest, serve with your fresh salad, and enjoy.
Ingredients:
- 4 sirloin steaks
- 2 pounds of baby Yukon potatoes
- ¼ cup of your favorite steak seasoning or salt and pepper
- 4 tablespoons of butter
- Canola or vegetable oil for searing
Directions:
- Set your sous vide oven mode to 129 degrees.
- Add a generous coat of seasoning to your steaks.
- Seal your steaks in a vacuum bag and place them in the oven to cook for 1 hour.
- While the steaks are in the oven, place the potatoes in boiling water and cook until tender— about 15 minutes.
- Strain your potatoes and add them to a large mixing bowl. Add butter and smash your potatoes with a masher or the back of a wooden spoon. Mix until the butter is fully combined and season to taste.
- Remove your steaks. Re-season if necessary.
- Heat a cast-iron pan over medium-high heat, add oil, and sear steak for 2 minutes on each side.
- Serve with potatoes, your favorite veggie, and just a splash of A1.
Ingredients:
- 4 skinless salmon fillets
- 1 large bunch of spinach
- ½ cup of Dijon mustard
- 1 cup of heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon of lemon juice
- Salt and pepper to taste
Directions:
- Set the sous vide oven mode to 115 degrees.
- Season your salmon and place it in resealable vacuum bags. Cook for 45 minutes.
- While the fish is in the oven, heat a pan over medium heat and add the spinach.
- Cook until wilted and soft. Add lemon juice, salt, and pepper. Keep the heat on low until you’re ready to serve.
- Place saucepan over medium heat and add heavy cream and Dijon mustard. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and whisk to combine. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Remove salmon from bags.
- Serve your salmon on a bed of spinach and drizzle Dijon sauce over each filet before serving.
Who’s Hungry?
You've probably built up quite the appetite by now—we sure have! If you’d like to further explore sous vide or steam cooking, we’re here to help you with any appliance need. If you decide to shop our catalog of wall ovens and other cooking appliances to test out some of these sous vide recipes for yourself, give us a call, navigate to our website, or stop by Don’s Appliances today to learn more.
And to witness the versatility of sous vide in action, check out this recipe video below: