Sous Vide is an awesome French cooking technique that can be used to cook nearly everything to a perfect internal temperature. One of the best things you can sous vide are vegetables. This is because when you sous vide them, the flavor is even more pronounced. That is the same case when you sous vide green beans.
If you have ever tried to cook green beans in traditional methods, you know how hard they can be. When you leave them boiling too long, they become much tougher and stringy and no one wants that.
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[wptb id=402]Why this Sous Vide Green Beans Recipe Works
- It is easy to prep this side dish. All this recipe takes is a few ingredients, a vacuum sealed bag (or plastic bag), and a sous vide. Then you let your preferred precision heating cooker to do the work for you!
- You can scale this recipe up. If you want to make green beans for the whole family or for the week, it is easy to do so here. You can easily store the green beans in the fridge.
Ways to Sous Vide Green Beans
There are two awesome yet different ways you can sous vide green beans.
1) Get them crisper
To do that, you will leave the green beans in the water for 30 minutes at a water temperature of 185 degrees Fahrenheit. If you like the green beans softer, cook them for 45 minutes at the same temperature.
2) Get the green beans tender
For a more tender sous vide green beans, set your sous vide cooker to 185 degrees (just like in option one above). However, this time, leave them in the water for an additional 15 minutes for a total of 45 minutes.
Sous Vide Green Bean Ingredients
1-2 pounds of green beans
1 teaspoon of finely chopped garlic
1 teaspoon of rosemary
Add salt and pepper to your liking
2 tablespoons Olive oil
[wptb id=402]How to Sous Vide Green Beans
1. Fill your cooking vessel with water and attach your sous vide device to the pot.
2. Set the temperature to 185 degrees Fahrenheit.
3. Wash your green beans and trim off the ends of them.
4. Add your green beans to a vacuum sealed bag and seal them. If you do not have a vacuum sealer, this can be accomplished by placing all of the beans in a ziplock bag.
5. To get the same effect, we will use the “water displacement” method. Leave one corner of the bag open after sealing the rest and place the ziploc bag inside the water slowly.
6. Make sure the bag is fully submerged in the water. To do this, you will need to find something to keep the green beans from floating up, or keep them manually submerged with a cooking utensil.
7. Cook between 30-45 minutes depending on what kind of texture you want on the beans.
8. If you are not planning on eating the green beans right away, place them in a bowl of ice for 10 minutes before storing them in the fridge.
9. Otherwise, warm up a bit of butter in a pan over medium heat, add the garlic, followed by the green beans with salt and pepper. Stir for just around 30 seconds and serve with your favorite dish.
How do you sous vide your green beans? Let me know in the comments below!
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