Sous vide vegetables?

[bbqLuv]

I am expanding my retirement BBQ hobby with sous vide.
I am thinking why not vegetables? What effect does sous vide have on Veggies?
Sous vide the whole dinner, meat, potatoes, and veggies simultaneously. How about a frozen TV dinner?

[JCBBQ]

You’ll need more than one bc sv veggies are usually much higher temp. I’ve done it a couple times. Didn’t seem that great.

[bbqLuv]

thank you.

[Davek8282]

bbqLuv I agree with JCBBQ with the exception of corn on the cob which I think comes out great. The big difficulty is keeping the bag submerged, corn releases a lot of air while cooking so you soon have floating bags unless you weigh them down some how. I have never tried carrots but I hear they come out really well using Sous Vide.

[dubob]

You might want to check out this link before venturing forth:

12 Best Sous Vide Vegetable Recipes

[Davek8282]

dubob, nice link thanks. It also includes the corn recipe I was talking about in 2.2 of this thread

[bbqLuv]

Thank you, that is what I was looking for

[Alan M]

i haven't been impressed the sous vide vegetables, but a discovery I made with sous vide is that it is great for cooking homemade ice cream. much cleaner than cooking the dairy in a pot. Bag- sousvide- ice bath and refrigerate overnight then churning, without removing from the bag until the churn.

[jfmorris]

Unless you brown the meat in advance, I wouldn't SV meat and veggies together in the same bag. I'm thinking pot roast here... bag roast?

Also, I've never really seen the need to SV veggies. Plus the veggies and meat probably need different times and temps...

[bbqLuv]

Yes, that is what I am finding out about sous vide meat and veggies.
Probably, it would be okay to reheat them in the same bath but in different bags.

[Livermoron]

ATK has an interesting recipe for SV short rib "pot roast" and mashed potatoes that I'm going to have to try soon...

[mrteddyprincess]

I'm thinking SV and veggies would be a matter of needing to roast the veggies in advance (already cooked), seal them in a baggy and drop them in with the meat to warm up before mealtime. There is no use of dropping raw veggies into SV. No flavor.

[Potkettleblack]

Corn, carrots and other root vegetables. But they take high (180*F) heat to cook, and shorter baths.

corn on the cob in the SV, with some good summer corn… that’s the killer app.

pretty sure potatoes and sweet potatoes would work, if you’re going for a mashed final product.

[fzxdoc]

This ^