Hi there, welcome to paint the kitchen red I'm Neena and I share instant pot tips and
recipes from all over the world on my blog paintthekitchenred.com
today i'm going to be telling you all about sous vide there are two ways of doing sous vide one is
using an immersion circulator which is this long appliance that's similar to a handheld
blender and you attach that into a pot of water and the food goes into the pot of water and the
immersion circulator circulates the water so that it stays at an even temperature
the second method is the instant pot's built in sous vide function so the instant pot company
has an immersion circulator that you can purchase but it also builds the
sous-vide function into many of its newer instant pots so that's what i'm going to cover
today
so what is sous vide sous vide is a technique that is a french cooking technique that has been
popular for decades with professional chefs but recently it's become popular with home cooks as
well and basically you take the food you put it in a plastic bag and you immerse and you seal the bag
and take all the air out of it and you put the bag into a water bath and cook it for a long period
of time at a pretty low temperature and this results in perfectly cooked and evenly cooked food
one of the questions that i get from people about sous-vide is whether it is safe because they're
concerned about food being cooked at such a low temperature for example chicken breast people are
always concerned about bacteria well there are two factors that kill pathogens one is temperature and
the other is time if you cook a food long enough even if it's at a lower temperature it will kill
most pathogens so at about 130 degrees or higher you're pretty safe if you cook it long enough the
only thing you need to be concerned about is that when you finish cooking you either need to eat the
food right away or you need to refrigerate it so bacteria can grow on the food it's easier for me
to show you how to do sous-vide by actually cooking something so i'm gonna cook plain
chicken breasts normally i'd never cook chicken breasts in the instant pot i find that the instant
pot pressure cooking function overcooks chicken breast because it's a lean meat but with sous vide
chicken breast comes out perfectly cooked and tender i'll be using the duo evo plus but i'll
briefly show you how to use the function with some of the other models including the duo gourmet
and the ultra the ultra doesn't have a sous-vide function per se but you can use the custom
program to do sous-vide obviously one of the first things you need is an instant pot with sous-vide
functionality you'll also need ziploc bags here i have a quart size bag and a gallon size bag
a digital thermometer is really handy i use the thermo works brand digital thermometer
silicone tongs are useful for lifting the food out and pushing the bag into the water
and silicone gloves for lifting the bag out of the water when the cooking is done
i'm going to demonstrate the displacement method for you i have a bag with some coins
and there's quite a bit of air in the bag and i'm going to show you how the bag seals itself around
the coins as i put the bag into the bowl of water i'm going to gently lower the bag into the water
and you can see the bags start sealing around the coins and you can see the air being pushed out
i'll use a pair of tongs to push the bag further into the water slowly i don't want to go too far
in because i don't want the water to get in the bag so i go as far as i can go without getting the
opening into the water and now i can seal the bag all the way and you can see that the bag is pretty
well sealed and there's no air around the coins and i would say it's as good as a vacuum seal
okay we're now ready to start the sous-vide process i'm going to start by adding warm tap
water to the inner pot you can use cold water but it'll just take a little longer to heat up the
water so i like to add warm water to give the instant pot a head start to get to the target
temperature obviously you don't want the water to be any hotter than your target temperature
and you need to have enough water to have the bags submerged in the water i filled it
up to about the half full mark because i only have two pieces of chicken that i'm putting in
for the duo evo plus what we'll first do is press the sous vide button and you can select custom if
you want to and set the temperature that way or you can select whatever type of food you're
cooking in this case i'll be cooking poultry and i press the button it is set at 145 degrees right
now because that's what i last used and you can change it and so i'm going to keep it at 145 press
the button again and then set the time i'm going to do two hours and then all i do is press start
if you have an ultra and you want to use the sous-vide function you'll need to select the
ultra setting press the knob to start changing the settings for the ultra
it's blinking on the time so you press the knob to start changing the time and we're going to make it
two hours
it's very sensitive so you gotta move it a little slowly
it's at two hours now so you press the knob to confirm the selection turn the knob to go to the
next setting the pressure is set for none which is what we want it to be but if yours is set for
low or high which you would do is press the knob and turn the knob to toggle between none low and
high so the none is blinking so we press the knob to confirm that turn the knob for the temperature
and press the knob to change it so it's low medium high and custom we want to go to custom and right
now it's set for 150 degrees so i'm going to press the knob to change the temperature and i'm going
to set it for 145 degrees and we press the knob to confirm the selection and the delay start is
off the keep warm timer is off everything is fine so i'm going to go ahead and confirm everything by
pressing start
if you have an instant pot duo gourmet first thing you do is press the sous vide button
and now you can change the temperature by pressing minus or plus and we're going to go to 145 degrees
and press sous vide again to change the time press minus or plus to change the time we're
going to go to two hours and there'll be a short delay after which the display will change to on
and that means that the instant pot is starting to heat up if you have an instant pot model that
i've not covered in this video for example the duo sv you should be able to use the
instructions for the duo gourmet because the display panel has very similar buttons
now the instant pot will heat up the water to the temperature that i've indicated which is
145 degrees and when it is hot the instant pot will beep if you wanted to you could just cover
the instant pot and you don't even have to close it but this allows the water to heat up faster
while this is happening i'm going to get the chicken ready
i place the chicken in the ziploc bag laying the pieces flat side by side
using a pair of tongs and try to get out as much air as possible
and close the ziploc almost all the way leaving about an
inch to an inch and a half to allow the air to escape when i lower the bag into the water
if you want to avoid wasting ziploc bags you can use these reusable sous-vide cooking bags
which are washable in the dishwasher and they come in multiple sizes i happen to have a gallon
sized bag i'll quickly show you how the bag works it's basically a ziploc bag and you put the food
into it and it has an opening over here that you put a snorkel into and once the bag with
the food is in the water you remove the straw or the snorkel and cover the hole with the cap
okay so the instant pot has beeped letting me know that the temperature has been reached
so i'm going to use my thermopen thermometer to measure the temperature and make sure that it
is what it's supposed to be at and looks like we have reached our desired temperature
and so i'm ready to put the chicken into the instant pot if you measure your temperature
and you find that it's not where you want it to be you
should change the sous vide temperature setting to be a little bit higher or lower whichever way
you need to change it to so it is it gets to the desired temperature these instant pots are not
that accurate in terms of temperature they're off by a few degrees or they can be and so it just
depends on what kind of instant pot that you have so that's just a fair warning to just be careful
okay i'm ready to put my chicken breasts into the water if you'll recall i left a
one inch opening in the ziploc bag and i'm going to push down the bag
just want to make sure that the opening doesn't go below water but as you push the bag down the air
comes out of the ziploc bag and this is called the displacement method of sealing the ziploc bag and
go ahead and seal it the rest of the way
and you'll see all the meat is sitting on the bottom and the bag is on top
now i'm going to close the instant pot
so the chicken will cook in the sous vide
for about two hours and at that point i can take it out and sear it in a pan or i just
put it in the refrigerator and use it as needed whenever i need some chicken breast in a recipe
okay i'm ready to open the instant pot
let's remove the chicken it's a bit slippery with the tongs you might want to use silicone
mitts that i mentioned earlier to remove the bag from the water now let's remove the
chicken from the bag and let it rest for a bit to allow the juices to flow back into the meat
now i made this chicken with no spices just to show you the technique but you can add dry spices
or marinade and use the same exact technique if you wanted to cook other kinds of meat like steak
or pork anything really just find a recipe for sous vide i like to use america's test kitchen
and use the timings that they suggest but you can use the same technique that i showed you
today most recipes have a range of temperature and cook time make sure you don't go below the
minimum temperature and cook time in order for the food to be cooked safely
hopefully i've given you enough information that you can get started with your first sous-vide
recipe i suggest that you start simple maybe a chicken breast or something simple and a smaller
quantity so you don't waste food and once you do that then you can do more you can do a larger
quantity of food or something more complicated i hope you enjoyed this video and if you did please
give it a thumbs up and stay tuned for the next video and thank you for watching i'll see you next
time