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    Home » Recipes » Sous vide

    Simple Sous Vide Carrots

    Published: Oct 16, 2014 · Modified: Feb 17, 2018 by Mike Vrobel · This post may contain affiliate links · 3 Comments

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    Sous Vide Carrots

    Why do I cook sous vide? Because I can trade time for effort. Sous vide carrots are a perfect example. They’re easy - peel the carrots, seal the carrots, drop them in a water bath. When they’re done, cut the bag open and serve.

    But, they’re also slow; the carrots need an hour in a (very hot) water bath. I don’t mind the trade-off. When I’m working on dinner, the hard part is the last part - getting everything finished and on the table. “Cut the bag open and dump on a platter” is what I’m looking for in a side dish.

    Carrots cook at a very high temperature for sous vide - 185°F. We want to gelatinize the starch, resulting in firm but tender carrots. Unfortunately, that temperature is much higher than we want to cook meat sous vide, so we can’t cook the main course at the same time as these carrots. I have a few strategies for dealing with this:

    1. I run two sous vide water baths at the same time, one for the vegetables, and one for the protein. (Yes, I have multiple sous vide water baths. I have a cooking gadget problem.)
    2. I use one water bath, sequentially, from highest temperature to lowest. I cook the carrots first, 185°F for an hour. Then I drop the sous vide temperature to meat cooking levels (let’s say 136°F), and add ice to the water bath to cool it down. The meat goes in the water with the carrots - the carrots stay warm in the water bath while the meat cooks.
    3. I don’t cook the main course sous vide. Sous vide - it’s not just for meat any more!
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    Simple Sous Vide Carrots


    • Author: Mike Vrobel
    • Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
    • Yield: 1 pound carrots 1x
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    Description

    Simple Sous Vide Carrots - tender carrots cooked sous vide

    Adapted from: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Sous Vide Glazed Carrots, SeriousEats.com


    Ingredients

    Scale
    • 1 pound carrots, medium width (Halve any carrots thicker than 1 ½ inches)
    • ½ teaspoon kosher salt
    • 1 tablespoon butter

    Instructions

    1. Sous vide the carrots: Peel the carrots, put them in a vacuum pouch, sprinkle with salt, add the butter, and vacuum seal the bag. Sous vide the carrots at 185°F/85°C for 1 hour (up to 3 hours max).
    2. Serve: Cut open the bag and, using tongs, move the carrots to a platter. Drizzle a tablespoon of the butter and carrot juices from the bag over the top of the carrots.  Serve.

    Notes

    • It takes a while to heat the sous vide water bath to 185°F. (That's a lot of water to heat up.) Start with the hottest water you can get from your tap, and start the sous vide circulator ASAP.
    • Don’t feel like vacuum sealing? Use the displacement method. Put everything in a zip-top bag and s-l-o-w-l-y lower it into the water, squeezing out all the air. Seal the zip top and drop the bag into the water.
    • PolyScience was kind enough to send me one of their Creative series immersion circulators for testing. I’m enjoying it, and I love the huge 18-liter polycarbonate tank with the custom cut lid that the circulator fits through.
    • You don’t have to buy multi-color carrots as I did - normal, orange carrots taste great cooked this way. But...look at those colors!

    Tools

    • Sous vide water bath setup (I used a PolyScience Creative Series immersion circulator)
    • Vacuum Sealer
    • Vacuum bags
    • Prep Time: 10 minutes
    • Cook Time: 1 hour
    • Category: Side Dish
    • Method: Sous Vide
    • Cuisine: American

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    Carrots vacuum sealed with a pat of butter
    Carrots vacuum sealed with a pat of butter
    Vacuum sealed carrots in a water bath with a sous vide immersion circulator
    Vacuum sealed carrots in the water bath
    Vacuum sealed bag of carrots cooked sous vide
    Done! Carrots are ready to serve.
    Closeup of multi-colored carrots
    Look at those colors

    What do you think?

    Questions? Other ideas? Leave them in the comments section below.

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    Comments

    1. Autumn says

      October 18, 2014 at 6:59 pm

      A slow cooker on low with the lid offset holds very close to 185. Radishes respond well to similar treatment too!

      Reply
    2. Mike V @ DadCooksDinner says

      October 16, 2014 at 6:03 pm

      Every little bit helps.

      Reply
    3. Heath says

      October 16, 2014 at 6:03 pm

      To save time (and arguably energy) I use an electric kettle to get my water more quickly to temp.

      Reply

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