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Sous Vide Salad Nicoise with Asian Vinaigrette

April 10, 2017 by Food For Net
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Sous Vide Salad Nicoise with Asian Vinaigrette Recipe

Sous Vide Salad Nicoise with Asian Vinaigrette

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The tuna was cooked exactly moist and flaky. The sweet, tangy, and slightly spicy Asian vinaigrette gave this classic salad a refreshing make-over!

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Sous Vide Salad Nicoise with Asian Vinaigrette

The classic salad Nicoise meets Asian flavors in this recipe. Forget canned tuna. It just can't compare with this sous vide preparation.
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Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes minutes
Total Time: 45 minutes minutes
Course: Main Dish, Side Dish
Cuisine: Asian
Servings: 4 people

Ingredients

For the Salad

  • 500 Grams Tuna Loin
  • 2 Large Potatoes boiled, peeled, and cut into chunks
  • 1 Pieces Red Onion thinly sliced
  • 1 Large Carrot peeled, cut into sticks, and blanched
  • a handful Green Beans blanched
  • 4 Pieces Eggs boiled to wax-stage, peeled, quartered
  • a handful Salad Greens

For the Asian Vinaigrette

  • 1 Tablespoon Soy Sauce
  • 1 Tablespoon Honey
  • 1 Tablespoon Lime Juice
  • 1 Tablespoon Sri Racha
  • 1 Tablespoon Sesame Oil
  • 3 Tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 Clove garlic finely chopped
  • 1/2 Teaspoon Ginger grated
  • 1 Teaspoon Sesame Seeds toasted

Instructions

  • Whisk all ingredients for the vinaigrette in a bowl. Set aside.
  • Season tuna with salt and pepper. Put in a sous vide bag and cook for 15 minutes at 130F.
  • Transfer tuna to an ice bath.
  • Flake tuna and toss with all other ingredients in the vinaigrette.
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This one's a French classic with an Asian twist. Basically, a Salad Nicoise is a summer salad of tomatoes, potatoes, hard-boiled eggs, olives, and anchovies originating from the French city of Nice. Well, we're keeping most of those components in this recipe, adding sous vide cooked tuna, and flavoring it with an Asian-inspired vinaigrette instead of a traditional French one. I apologize if I may have disappointed the hopes of some for this fusion. Let me just make up by simply saying that this may be far from the usual Nicoise but is indeed worth trying!

I apologize if I may have disappointed the hopes of some with this fusion. Let me just make up by simply saying that this may be far from the usual Nicoise but is indeed worth trying!

Let's start with a good chunk of tuna loin, yes fresh tuna. You may simply go for canned fish but you just know that it won't taste the same. Canned tuna will always be dry and taste more like tin than tuna.

Give the fish a good seasoning of salt or some spices if you will. I'd like mine simple as with most of my cooking – keeping the natural flavors of excellent produce as much as I could.

Let the tuna sit for about 5 minutes to allow the salt to work deeper into its flesh. Then, get it into a sous vide bag with a bit of olive oil. The oil will give our tuna a smoother exterior as it cooks.

We're going for a doneness similar to canned tuna so this is going to cook at 130F for 15 minutes in your water bath.

Meanwhile, let's whisk up a simple Asian vinaigrette. Soy sauce, honey, sesame oil, Sri Racha, lime juice, sesame seeds, minced garlic, and grated ginger. Proportions? Go by feel, or by taste should I say? Start with equal portions of soy sauce, honey, Sri Racha, and lime juice. Taste then adjust to your liking. Then add in the garlic, ginger, and sesame oil. Again, taste and adjust. Finally, whisk in some olive oil, or any neutral flavored oil to bring your vinaigrette together.

After 15 minutes, our tuna would be perfectly cooked – moist and exactly flaky. You need to stop it from cooking any further so it would be best to shock it in an ice bath. We're putting it into a salad anyway so it'll be perfectly fine left cold.

Feel free to work your choice of salad vegetables into your platter. I just tried to get this interpretation quite worthy of being called a Nicoise in some way, so I kept quite close to the original components.

Honestly, that tuna and Asian vinaigrette would work with a simple Mesclun. Even over sushi rice just like I did with the leftovers.

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Sous Vide Salad Nicoise with Asian Vinaigrette

The classic salad Nicoise meets Asian flavors in this recipe. Forget canned tuna. It just can't compare with this sous vide preparation.
Pin Recipe
Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes minutes
Total Time: 45 minutes minutes
Course: Main Dish, Side Dish
Cuisine: Asian
Servings: 4 people

Ingredients

For the Salad

  • 500 Grams Tuna Loin
  • 2 Large Potatoes boiled, peeled, and cut into chunks
  • 1 Pieces Red Onion thinly sliced
  • 1 Large Carrot peeled, cut into sticks, and blanched
  • a handful Green Beans blanched
  • 4 Pieces Eggs boiled to wax-stage, peeled, quartered
  • a handful Salad Greens

For the Asian Vinaigrette

  • 1 Tablespoon Soy Sauce
  • 1 Tablespoon Honey
  • 1 Tablespoon Lime Juice
  • 1 Tablespoon Sri Racha
  • 1 Tablespoon Sesame Oil
  • 3 Tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 Clove garlic finely chopped
  • 1/2 Teaspoon Ginger grated
  • 1 Teaspoon Sesame Seeds toasted

Instructions

  • Whisk all ingredients for the vinaigrette in a bowl. Set aside.
  • Season tuna with salt and pepper. Put in a sous vide bag and cook for 15 minutes at 130F.
  • Transfer tuna to an ice bath.
  • Flake tuna and toss with all other ingredients in the vinaigrette.
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Category: Dinner, Original Recipes, Sous VideTag: Fish, Seafood, Sous Vide Recipes, Tuna
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