Extra Crispy Sous Vide Chicken Legs
Extra Crispy Sous Vide Chicken Legs

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Crispy Sous-Vide Chicken Thighs With Mustard-Wine Pan Sauce. Without fail, chicken thighs cooked in a sous vide bag will come out juicier than thighs cooked using traditional methods when they're cooked to the same final temperature. This easy chicken recipe combines sous vide with a quick pan-fry to yield tender poultry legs with awesomely crispy skin.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook extra crispy sous vide chicken legs using 16 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Extra Crispy Sous Vide Chicken Legs:
  1. Take 6 chicken legs (thigh and drumstick connected)
  2. Make ready 6 sprigs Fresh rosemary,
  3. Prepare 3 sprigs Fresh sage,
  4. Take kosher salt
  5. Prepare pepper
  6. Get 4 tsp herbs de provence
  7. Prepare 1 medium shallot diced
  8. Take 1 tbsp rosemary leaves, minced
  9. Get 1 garlic clove, minced
  10. Get 1 cup chicken stock
  11. Make ready 1 tbsp gelatin
  12. Take 1 tbsp lemon juice
  13. Make ready 1 tsp white wine vinegar
  14. Get 1 tbsp unsalted butter
  15. Take 1 tbsp soy sauce
  16. Get 1 dash sherry wine

Flavorful, tender chicken thighs with a perfectly crispy skin are possible with this recipe for sous vide chicken thighs. This temperature is slightly lower than the desired core temperature at the end of cooking, that is because the skin will be crisped under a very hot broiler and thus the meat will be cooked The result was a tender juicy chicken leg with a nice crispy skin. The sous vide technique allows you to cook chicken to the ideal temperature for juiciness and tenderness. This was a sous vide experiment that turned out to be something seriously delicious (and seriously Umami if you are brave enough to seek out a bottle of fish sauce and add a few.

Instructions to make Extra Crispy Sous Vide Chicken Legs:
  1. Set sous vide bath to 160F. Season chicken legs generously with salt pepper and 2 tsp herbs de provence.
  2. Place the thighs in vaccum sealed bags. Face them all in the same direction and place your rosemary snd sage on the side of the leg where there is no skine covering. Placing the herb on the exposed flesh will help to season the meat and not just the skin. Sprinkle some olive oil over top the chicken. Then seal.
  3. Place bag/bags in preheated sous vide bags. Cook for at least 1 hour and up to 4 hours. Yes that's my homemade sous vide machine. The circulator was in sale for $150 and the cooler costs $25. I stole this design from somewhere on the internet, but it works out and the cooler keeps heat in so your circulator is not running the whole time.
  4. Remove the chicken from your bath. Dunk the bag of chicken in ice water and leave for five minutes.
  5. Remove the chicken from the bag and retain the juices inside. Pat the chicken dry and remove the whole herbs from the chicken. Put the dried chicken in the fridge while you prep for the pan sauce, or about 15 minutes.
  6. Chop your shallot, garlic clove, and rosemary, pour 1 tbsp of gelatin over your chicken stock and set aside. Remove the chicken from the fridge and reseason if you think too much of the seasoning was washed away while cooking. Put a tbsp of olive oil into a cast iron pan and heat over medium high until smoking.
  7. Add the chicken, skin down to the pan. Use another pan to keep weight on the chicken while it cooks, so you can get maximum brownage. You're look at about 2 minutes per side.
  8. When complete throw your shallot, rosemary and garlic in the still hot pan. Cook until fragrant.
  9. Then pour your chicken stock and the reserved juices from your vacuum nag into the pot. Using a wooden spatula scrape up any browned bits that may be stuck to the bottom of the pan. Cook over medium high heat until reduced to about 2/3's the original volume.
  10. Add soy sauce, lemon juice, sherry wine, white wine vinegar and butter. Boil rapidly until you have a smooth creamy sauce. Dip a spoon into your pan sauce, if it coats the back of the spoon you're good to go. If not keep boiling.
  11. Run the pan sauce through a fine mesh strainer or chinois. You can press down on the bits stuck in the strainer to get some really tasty juice back into you pan sauce.
  12. Serve the pan sauce over chicken and enjoy you're fancy sous vide chicken.

These Crispy Sous-Vide Chicken Drumsticks take two hours to cook with an immersion circulator setup and then right after they are cooked they are broiled Crispy Sous-Vide Chicken Drumsticks. Sous vide chicken legs should follow exactly the same recipe, with the same cooking temperature and cooking time, as bone in chicken thighs. One of the great advantages of sous vide cooking is the only adjustment you need to make for cooking frozen meat is adding extra cooking time. We like to think that when it comes to chicken, you better go crispy or go home. The key here is that if you want the skin to be nice and crispy at the end, you have to start with dry skin in the beginning.

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