This simple tutorial on How to Sous Vide Chicken Breasts is a seriously simple cooking method and a convenient way to get dinner on the table with the help of Foodsaver! We love serving with some creamy mashed potatoes and steamed green beans!
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Easy Sous Vide Chicken Breasts
If you haven’t tried sous vide chicken breasts yet … you are missing out! It is the best way to make this easy sous vide recipe! I don’t know about you guys, but weeknight dinners can be a REAL challenge some days. So, what I have been doing lately is using my Foodsaver® Preservation System to help me throw together healthy, quick meals!
Looking to use your sous vide to cook other meats? Try our Sous Vide Steak!
What You Will Need
- boneless skinless chicken breasts – we like picking fresh chicken breasts up from our local grocery store or butcher shop.
- kosher salt & ground black pepper – simple seasonings that are always a must when cooking meat.
- fresh aromatics – we used slices of fresh oranges and lemon, plus some sprigs of rosemary.
- ghee – to keep it Whole30/Paleo compliant use ghee or you can use olive oil or butter!
How To Cook Sous Vide Chicken
To begin making this easy chicken recipe, generously season the chicken breasts with salt and pepper.
How To Season Sous Vide Chicken Breasts
We kept this recipe card simple, but you can season your chicken however you want! We used rosemary, citrus fruits, ghee and salt/pepper. But you can use a chicken dry rub, buffalo sauce, etc.! It is a great way to use whatever you have laying around!
Place the seasoned chicken breasts in a FoodSaver bag with or without fresh fruit slices and fresh herbs. Seal the bag with your FoodSaver Preservation System and place in the fridge.
Fill a large pot with water and use your sous vide to bring it to 150 degrees F. Once it reaches that temp, submerge the bag of chicken in the water. Allow the chicken to cook for 1.5-4 hours.
After the chicken has fully cooked, you can remove it from the bag and either serve immediately or give them a quick sear in a cast iron skillet. Searing the chicken will give them a nicely browned outside.
How To Serve Sous Vide Chicken
This easy sous vide chicken recipe is perfect for enjoying with Instant Pot mashed potatoes, easy mashed sweet potatoes, grilled broccoli, or air fryer asparagus. The list of easy side dish recipes is endless. Any of them would be great for a quick and easy weeknight dinner!
Meal Prep Chicken Ideas
When buying groceries, many times we buy our chicken breasts in bulk (so much cheaper that way) and then we divide up the chicken breasts into meal-sized quantities (usually about 4 chicken breasts). Then we toss the chicken into Foodsaver® Bags along with some aromatics (rosemary, thyme, etc), fat (olive oil or ghee), and season the chicken with salt and pepper. Then place it in the fridge for later in the week or put it in the freezer. When ready to cook, just grab a pre-packaged bag of chicken and cook it Sous Vide! You can cook it from frozen or fresh, doesn’t matter! Cooking with a Sous Vide allows you to control your cooking temp with exact precision – it is seriously so cool.
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How to Sous Vide Chicken Breasts
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 90 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 40 minutes
- Yield: 3–4 servings 1x
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Sous Vide
- Cuisine: American
Description
How to Sous Vide Chicken Breasts – An easy and delicious way to prep and cook juicy chicken breasts!
Ingredients
- 3–4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- kosher salt
- ground black pepper
- 2–3 orange slices
- 2–3 lemon slices
- 2–3 sprigs fresh rosemary
- 1 tablespoon ghee (extra virgin olive oil works too)
Instructions
- Lightly season chicken breasts with salt and pepper.
- Take Foodsaver Bag and add chicken breasts, lemons, oranges, rosemary and ghee.
- Seal with Foodsaver Preservation System and place in fridge.
- Take large soup pot and fill with water and using your Sous Vide, bring water to 150 degrees. Once water has come to temp, place the Foodsaver Bag of chicken inside the water.
- Allow to cook for 1.5 – 4 hours. Once fully cooked, remove chicken from bag.
- Bring a large cast iron skillet to a medium-high heat and sear the chicken on both sides.
- Serve immediately.
Notes
- Marinade: option to sub the fresh fruit and rosemary for a chicken marinade or BBQ sauce.
- Cook time: chicken can be cooked in the sous vide for up to 4 hours.
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