Sous Vide Recipe Cheat Sheet (2024)

This article is a part of my free Exploring Sous Vide email course. If you want to discover how to consistently create amazing food using sous vide then my course is exactly what you're looking for. For a printed version of this course, you can purchase my Exploring Sous Vide cookbook.

When people get their sous vide machine for the first time they are often stumped about what to cook first. There's a few great staples people recommend, like 72 hour short ribs, low temperature salmon, pork tenderloin or a nice steak! But a lot of it really comes down to what type of food you like.

Throughout the Exploring Sous Vide course I'm going to be giving you lots of tips and tricks for successful sous vide. I will also be pointing you to specific recipes that help illustrate them, as well as some of my all-time favorite recipes. But first, I wanted to provide you with this page that can act as a guide to helping you find the type of foods you want to try cooking. Hopefully you can reference it, and the recipes it links to, as you go through the course.

What to Sous Vide First?

A top question people ask is "What should I sous vide first?". There's lots of answers to this question, and I've put together some of the more common ones in my What Should I Sous Vide First? article.

Three of my favorite sous vide recipes to get started are listed below. They are all simple and easy to make, and really showcase the difference sous vide makes with the meat.

• Sous Vide Sirloin Steak Recipe with Roasted Root Vegetables
• Sous Vide Chicken Breast Recipe with Bulgur Salad and Za'atar Onions
• Bourbon Glazed Sous Vide Pork Tenderloin

Searching for Inspiration

If you want to just skim my recipes looking for inspiration you can view all my sous vide recipes. You can also check out my most popular modernist recipes or most recent recipes, many of which are sous vide related.

Recipe Categories

If you are looking for a specific type of food to cook, you can view the Sous Vide Recipe Filters to narrow down what you are looking for. There are a lot of popular categories listed, or you can type in your own search criteria. Some of my favorite sous vide categories are listed below.

• Sous Vide Steak Recipes
• Sous Vide Fish Recipes
• Sous Vide Pork Recipes

The Vegetables

In sous vide there is a ton of focus on steak, chicken, pork, and other meats. This means sous vide vegetables are often forgotten. That's a shame since there are many great ways you can use sous vide to cook vegetables. I have a full list of sous vide vegetable recipes and have listed a few of my favorites below.

• Sous Vide Orange-Saffron Fennel Confit
• Sous Vide Butternut Squash Salad
• Sous Vide Carrots

Unusual Uses

Everyone knows you can cook meat and vegetables with sous vide, but there are several other uses for it. From desserts and sweets to savory soups and infusions, sous vide is a really versitile method of cooking.

• Sous Vide Infusion Recipes
• Sous Vide Yogurt
• Sous Vide Creme Brulee Recipes

Let Me Know

Have a favorite recipe you'd like to share? Can't find a recipe for something you really want to cook? Let me know in the comments or on the Exploring Sous Vide Facebook group.

This article is a part of my free Exploring Sous Vide email course. If you want to discover how to consistently create amazing food using sous vide then my course is exactly what you're looking for. For a printed version of this course, you can purchase my Exploring Sous Vide cookbook.

This article is by me, Jason Logsdon. I'm an adventurous home cook and professional blogger who loves to try new things, especially when it comes to cooking. I've explored everything from sous vide and whipping siphons to pressure cookers and blow torches; created foams, gels and spheres; made barrel aged co*cktails and brewed beer. I have also written 10 cookbooks on modernist cooking and sous vide and I run the AmazingFoodMadeEasy.com website.

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