Black Pepper Sous Vide Chicken Salad
We just LOVE this recipe and as you make it, we are pretty confident you will too. The chicken melts in your mouth, thanks to sous vide.
We love to sous vide. (Pronounced Soo Vee) This is a slow cooking process, best done in an airtight bag in submerged in water, but we have managed to basically duplicate this method with less fuss, but similar results. There is a sous vide function on the TM6, but you don't need the TM6 to follow our recipes for this process.
Watch the video, print off the recipe and have a go. The Stasher bags are widely available in kitchenware stores. There are loads of other brands out there, but I do love my stashers. They are easy to seal, clean and use. I have had issues with some other copies.
Try some of our other Sous Vide recipes...you are a pro now after all!
Sous Vide Salmon with Pea Salad
Sous Vide Tequila Chilli Chicken
Sous Vide Steak with Red Capsicum Puree
Sous Vide Honey Carrots with Spiced Yoghurt
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Need
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The Chicken and Marinade
- 6 Pieces boneless chicken breast
- 3 stalks lemongrass
- 10 cloves garlic
- 100 Grams tamari (do not sub in soy, as it is much saltier)
- 25 Grams fish sauce
- 30 Grams coconut sugar
- 50 Grams black pepper whole, dry toasted
- 50 Grams fresh coriander or cilantro stalks/roots
- 20 Grams coriander seeds
- 1 Pinch pink salt flakes BUY
- 50 Grams Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) as needed BUY
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The Salad
- 1 Handful fresh mint leaves picked, discard stalks
- 1 Bunch fresh coriander or cilantro leaves only (use stalks for the marinade)
- 1 capsicum/bell pepper red
- 1-2 red shallots, finely sliced and fried until crispy (keep the oil to add to salad)
- fresh lime juice as needed
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) as needed BUY
- 6 kaffir lime leaves, shredded
- 1 Pinch pink salt flakes BUY
- Lime wedges to serve
Do
- 1
Place the chicken breasts into a stasher bag.
- 2
Place all marinade ingredients into the Thermomix bowl and blend 2 min/speed 8. Scrape bowl and repeat.
- 3
Tip this mixture into the bags. Massage into the bird. Allow to marinate for as long as you can, up to 48 hours.
- 4
When ready to cook, fill the Thermomix bowl with water to the 1L mark. Insert the blade cover and then put the bag containing the marinated chicken into the bowl. If it will not fit, you can use the Varoma on top, though this is really not quite as good as if the meat is submerged in the water.
- 5
Cook 60 min/65°C/speed 1 Remove from the water and cool slightly before proceeding.
- 6
Heat a grill plate to smoking hot, get that baby really hot. Drizzle with a little EVOO. Remove the chicken from the bag, drizzle with more EVOO and sear the chicken on both sides until blackened. Remember the chicken is fully cooked, so no need to over do it. But you do want black so you get a nice contrast with the white inside when the chicken is sliced.
- 7
Serve sliced with the salad, and a lime wedge on the side. Top with crispy fried shallots. Use the shallot oil as dressing.
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!
