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Sous vide chicken with ponzu and spicy asian tomato…

  • January 27, 2018
  • by Jono

Chicken cooked sous vide in ponzu with our spicy asian tomato relish – Delicious fusion asian cooking that works as well for weeknight eating as for entertaining guests.

We recently completed our low-tech sous vide setup, and it is by far the best way of doing meat and poultry.  You need a heating element, a thermostat with a switch, and a fish tank submergible water pump, and some MacGyver skills.

If you are new to the world of Sous Vide – Don’t run away! You can do it in your own kitchen (albeit with slightly more effort), all you need are ziplock bags and an accurate thermometer.

A sous vide setup is a water bath that you keep at a constant temprature, and you use this to cook food slowly and precisely.

You can do this yourself without a professional setup. Use the heaviest cast iron pot you can find, fill it with water, and, using your thermometer, bring it up on your stovetop to the desired temperature (between 60-62C in this case).

You will notice that this is considerably more difficult on an electric stovetop, as the heating element takes long to heat up, and continues to produce heat after being turned off. Removing the pot from the element reduces this problem slightly.

You will also notice that the heated metal of your pot continues to heat the water after you switch off the gas/remove from the plate, so you need to plan for the overshoot. I would recommend doing a test run to get the feel of things before starting on a meal for loads of guests that you want to impress.

Stir regularly (every 2-3 minutes at least), and when you turn on the heat, keep it on for very short intervals – you can always switch it on again and cook for longer, but once you overshoot properly the meat dries out and you can’t recover from that.

If you do overshoot, remove the meat from the sous vide immediately and wait for the water to come back down to the correct temperature before re-adding it.

 

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Sous vide ponzu chicken and spicy asian relish

Easy and relatively hands-off, sous vide produces spectacular results with very little effort. This cooking technique hasn't caught on much in south africa yet, so I'm not expecting you to have a sous vide cooker - but you need need an accurate (preferably digital) thermometer.
Recipe for asian tomato relish here.
Course Main Course
Cuisine Fusion, Japanese
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Servings 2

Ingredients

  • 1 portion Spicy asian tomato relish
  • 1 chicken breast, with or without bone/skin, per person
  • 1 tbsp ponzu, per chicken breast or a mixture of 4 tbsp soya sauce, 1/4 flat tsp dashi granules and 1 tsp lemon juice
  • 1 tbsp mirin, per chicken breast
  • Blowtorch (optional)

Instructions

  • Set your sous vide setup to 60*C.
  • Ziplock your chicken with the ponzu and mirin, and use the water displacement method to seal without any air in the bag.
    Cook your chicken for 1h at 60-62C. 
    If cooking from frozen, then add the chicken while the water is still cold and bring up to temperature with the water, and make total time (warming and cooking) 1h20m.
  • While the chicken is on the go, make the spicy asian relish.
    Once the chicken is done cooking, add any juices inside the packet to the relish.
  • Optional: to crisp up the outside, torch with a blow torch, or fry on very high heat for only a few seconds - the chicken is already totally cooked, you don't want to dry it out with further cooking. 
    Slice your chicken into slices, serve on top of the relish with a starch of your choice - goes well with rice noodles/wasabi mashed potatoes etc.

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