Medium Rare Sous Vide Steak

Note: I was sent jars of Le Sauce & Co Finishing Sauces in order to write this post. All opinions are mine alone.

For the last few months, I’ve been messing around with a new toy: a precision cooker that allows me to cook sous vide (which means “under vacuum”).

To cook sous vide, you add ingredients to a sealed plastic bag (or glass jar) and cook it in water that has been brought to a specific temperature. Cooking using this method takes considerably longer than sautéing, roasting, or grilling, but the result is a perfectly even and tender meal! I’ve made a few things sous vide so far, but wanted to first share the most common recipe: Sous Vide Steak. This cooking method seals in moisture and results in a super flavorful steak, so you only need a simple sauce to complete your meal.

I drizzled my Sous Vide Steak with a sauce from Le Sauce & Co.: Classic Green Peppercorn Sauce. Le Sauce is a boutique, craft food company that believes every meal should be an experience. They have four different finishing sauces that elevate a meal with little effort! The Classic Green Peppercorn Sauce is the perfect complement to a perfectly cooked steak, and is made with cream, butter, shallots. cognac, and green peppercorns. Other finishing sauces include Coconut Thai Red Curry, Roasted Poblano & Garlic, and White Wine Lemon & Garlic, and all can be found on Amazon.

Ingredients:

  • 2 (8 to 12 oz) boneless beef tenderloin steaks
  • salt and pepper, to taste
  • 2 garlic cloves, peeled and smashed
  • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil or other oil with a high smoking temperature
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • Le Sauce & Co‘s Classic Green Peppercorn Sauce
  • Freshly chopped parsley, for garnish

Tools:

  • Large pasta pot or other large container
  • Precision cooker (I used an Anova)
  • Medium freezer zip top bag, vacuum seal bag, or silicone bag
  • cast iron skillet

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Grilled Saffron Rack of Lamb

I love the flavor that grilling adds to a recipe but I struggle with grilling protein to the correct temperature. This means we sometimes end up with dry, chewy and overcooked food or, even worse, super rare/raw meat.

 

Luckily, Verizon Wireless’ Philadelphia Tri-State Region team gave me the opportunity to try out an iGrill thermometer that not only displays the temperature, but also uses Verizon’s LTE 4G network to send me an alert when my protein has reached the temperature I want!

 

 

I was so excited about this product that I decided to really test it out and used it on a pretty finicky meat: lamb. Lamb is a protein that should be cooked to medium rare and not much more. It gets really tough and chewy if overcooked. It’s pretty easy to overcook as well; lamb continues to cook after being removed from heat so it has to be removed before reaching the ideal internal temperature for medium rare. Plus, it’s a pretty expensive meat so you want it to be perfect!

 

I found this recipe for Grilled Saffron Rack of Lamb on Bon Appetit. The recipe includes temperature guides to help cook the lamb to a perfect medium-rare.

 

 

The iGrill Thermometer takes a lot of the guesswork out of the process. The thermometer comes with two probes so you can track the temperature of two meats at the same time. You just insert the probe into the thickest part of the meat (not touching a bone). The thermometer pairs with your phone through Bluetooth. Using the iGrill app on your smartphone, you can set a temperature or a timer to alert you when your meat is finished cooking. Pretty nifty, right?

 

 

Ingredients:

  • 2 racks of lamb, rib bones frenched
  • salt and pepper, to taste
  • 2 garlic cloves, crushed
  • 1 cup plain 0% Greek yogurt
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • the zest of 1 lemon
  • 1/2 teaspoon saffron threads, finely crumbled

 

note: “Frenched rib bones” means that the meat has been cut away from the end of the rib so that part of the bone is exposed

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