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    Sous Vide Short Ribs Recipe With Red Wine Reduction

    Dated: April 23, 2021 Last Modified: February 4, 2022 by Sarah Mock 29 Comments. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. This post contains affiliate links.

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    Sous vide short ribs are well worth the 48 hours it takes to cook them to fall-apart perfection.
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    Sous vide short ribs are well worth the 48 hours it takes to cook them to fall-apart perfection. The bone-in short rib cut will give you all the traditional braised short rib flavors in this hands-off cooking technique.

    perfectly seared sous vide short ribs stacked showing texfure

    The night before you are ready to serve these short ribs, prepare a sheet pan of Rhodes rolls and pop them in the refrigerator to proof overnight. Pull out a stick of butter to soften and make whipped butter to go with the rolls. Bake some potatoes for a loaded baked potato casserole or trim up some brussels sprouts for smashed Brussels sprouts with parmesan cheese. You now have some recipes for a successful dinner.

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    • 😍 Here is why this recipe is amazing:
    • 🥩 Ingredients needed:
    • 🍷 Red Wine Sauce ingredients needed:
    • 🎛️ Sous Vide Equipment
    • 🌀 How to make Short Ribs with Sous Vide
    • 🍽️ Finishing
    • 📝 Frequently asked questions, answers and tips:
    • 🍽️ More Sous Vide Beef Recipes
    • Printable Recipe Card
    • 👩🏻‍🍳 Sarah Mock

    😍 Here is why this recipe is amazing:

    • 48 hours of cooking will give you the most tender, fall apart, slide off the bone beef short ribs you have EVER had!
    • Cook the ribs and sear them off at a later date. A great recipe for your weekly meal prep.
    • Searing the sous vide cooked short ribs will give you the most amazing, flavorful crust.

    🥩 Ingredients needed:

    raw Short Ribs
    • Short ribs - I love the bone-in short ribs for this recipe. The bone will add extra beef flavor as the ribs 'braise' in the sous vide.

    🍷 Red Wine Sauce ingredients needed:

    • Onion - finely chopped
    • Garlic - finely chopped. Roasted garlic or garlic confit would be delicious!
    • Olive oil - for sauteing the onion and garlic
    • Flour - for making the roux for thickening
    • juices from the sous vide bag
    • Red wine
    • Butter - for making the sauce silky
    • Salt and pepper

    🎛️ Sous Vide Equipment

    • Breville Joule Sous Vide - This is the sous vide immersion circulator that I use. I love the wifi feature!
    • Anova Culinary Sous Vide Precision Cooker - Another popular brand of sous vide circulator. I don't have one but many people do and love this brand.
    • Sous Vide Container (3.0 Gallon) - ny container that can tolerate heat will work but I use this sous vide container.
    • Sous Vide Lid for LIPAVI C10 Container - Use with Anova Precision / Nano / Pro, Joule, Instant Pot, Wancle or virtually all other models. Do not accept a bad fit! The smart silicone sleeve on our lid will ensure a snug fit, with NO GAP. Up to a diametre of 2.755 inches
    • Cast Iron Skillet - got to get that HIGH HEAT for an amazing sear and cast iron is the best pan to get that sear.

    🌀 How to make Short Ribs with Sous Vide

    Sous Vide Short Ribs on a white plate with a fork holding a piece
    1. First, Season the ribs with flake salt on all surfaces. Allow the salt to pull out the excess moisture for 15 minutes.salted beef short ribs
    2. Heat a cast-iron skillet on high to the point of smoking. Pat the meat dry with paper towels to absorb the excess moisture. searing Sous Vide Short Ribs in a hot pan
    3. Sear the ribs on all sides. seared short ribs ready for sous vide bath
    4. Remove the ribs from the pan and allow to cool on a clean plate. sous vide short ribs in a vaccum seal bag
    5. Place the cooled short ribs in a vac and seal bag and remove all the air or a gallon zip-top bag and use water displacement to remove the air from the bag before clipping it to the side of the sous vide container. short ribs in a sous vide bath
    6. Set the sous vide water to 155 F and cook for 48 hours.
    7. If not eating the short ribs at the end of the cook, plunge the closed bag into an ice bath to chill them down. Finish the meat and make the sauce when you are ready to eat.

    🍽️ Finishing

    1. Remove the cooked short ribs from the sous vide bag, reserving the juices in the bag to make the wine sauce.
    2. In a heavy bottom or cast iron pan, sauté the onions and garlic until they are soft and start to take on a bit of color.
    3. Dust the flour to the cooked onions and garlic and stir for 1 minute. This will make a roux and help thicken the sauce. adding purge from the short rib bag to a cast iron pan to make a sauce
    4. Deglaze the pan with the purge, or juices, from the bag scraping the bits from the bottom of the pan. adding red wine to a hot pan to make red wine reduction and a wooden spoon
    5. Add the wine to the pan, stirring to combine, bring to a simmer and reduce until thickened. About 4 minutes. bubbling red wine reduction with wooden spoon
    6. Add the butter to the sauce and stir until melted and incorporated. mesh strainer with onions in it from the red wine reduciton
    7. Transfer the sauce to a serving dish, straining it through a fine-mesh strainer to remove the onions from the sauce.
    8. Pat the meat dry with paper towels. Heat a heavy bottom or cast iron pan over high heat to the point of smoking. second sear of Sous Vide Short Ribs before serving
    9. Sear the short ribs for 1 minute on all sides to get an amazing crust. seared Sous Vide Short Ribs on a white plate with red wine reduction
    10. Serve with the red wine reduction sauce.

    📝 Frequently asked questions, answers and tips:

    Can I use boneless short ribs for this recipe?

    Absolutely, yes! Boneless short ribs will work well for this recipe. But know that a bone will give you an extra layer of flavor to the meat and a bit more stability when searing the beef.

    Can these ribs be made ahead?

    These short ribs can be cooked up to a week ahead of serving. Just be sure to properly cool them down before storing them in the refrigerator.

    🍽️ More Sous Vide Beef Recipes

    • Sous Vide Beef Tenderloin - Edge-to-edge consistent doneness, with no chance of overcooking, will take the fear out of cooking this expensive cut of beef.
    • Sous Vide Prime Rib - Herb crust surrounds the most succulent and juicy roast beef, cooked to your desired doneness.
    • Sous Vide Guinness Stew - Full of deep, rich comforting flavors the Guinness Beer is the star of this tender beef stew. 
    • Sous Vide Beef Stroganoff - fall apart in your mouth beef while maintaining a medium rare center to the steak bites. The stroganoff sauce is creamy, silky and full of layers of flavor. 
    • Sous Vide Beef Burgundy - Combining the techniques and flavors of a traditional beef burgundy with the advanced technology of sous vide cooking will make you change the way you cook beef burgundy forever.
    • Sous Vide Roast Beef -the most delicious roast beef turning an inexpensive cut of beef into a memorable meal.
    • Sous Vide Beef Brisket -take the guesswork out of achieving the perfect brisket. Finish the brisket on your grill, smoker or in the oven for the flavorful, deep-colored bark that you love.

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    Sous Vide Short Ribs

    Sarah Mock
    Sous vide short ribs are well worth the 48 hours it takes to cook them to fall-apart perfection.
    4.9 from 28 votes
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    There is more to a recipe than just the recipe card. Frequently Asked Questions within the blog post that you may find helpful. Simply scroll back up to read them!

    Prep Time 10 mins
    Cook Time 2 d
    Finishing 10 mins
    Total Time 2 d 20 mins
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    Course Sous Vide
    Cuisine French
    Servings 4 servings
    Calories 421 kcal

    EQUIPMENT

    Anova Culinary Sous Vide Cooker
    Joule Sous Vide
    Sous Vide Water Bath
    Lid for Sous Vide Container
    FoodSaver Vacuum Sealer

    Ingredients
     
     

    • 2 lbs Short ribs bone in

    Red Wine Sauce ingredients:

    • ¼ cup Onion finely chopped
    • 2 cloves Garlic finely chopped
    • 2 T Olive oil extra virgin
    • 1 T Flour all purpose
    • 1 cup Red wine cabernet savigon
    • 1 t Butter
    • Salt and pepper

    Instructions
     

    • Season the ribs with flake salt on all surfaces. Allow the salt to pull out the excess moisture for 15 minutes.
      2 lbs Short ribs, Salt and pepper
    • Heat a cast-iron skillet on high to the point of smoking. Pat the meat dry with paper towels to absorb the excess moisture. Sear the ribs on all sides.
      2 T Olive oil
    • Remove the ribs from the pan and allow to cool on a clean plate.
    • Place the cooled short ribs in a vac and seal bag and remove all the air or a gallon zip-top bag and use water displacement to remove the air from the bag before clipping it to the side of the sous vide container.
    • Set the sous vide water to 155 F and cook for 48 hours.
    • If not eating the short ribs at the end of the cook, plunge the closed bag into an ice bath to chill them down. Finish the meat and make the sauce when you are ready to eat.

    Finishing the meat and making the wine sauce.

    • Remove the cooked short ribs from the sous vide bag, reserving the juices in the bag to make the wine sauce.
    • In a heavy bottom or cast iron pan, sauté the onions and garlic until they are soft and start to take on a bit of color.
      ¼ cup Onion, 2 cloves Garlic
    • Dust the flour to the cooked onions and garlic and stir for 1 minute. This will make a roux and help thicken the sauce.
      1 T Flour
    • Deglaze the pan with the purge, or juices, from the bag scraping the bits from the bottom of the pan.
    • Add the wine to the pan, stirring to combine, bring to a simmer and reduce until thickened. About 4 minutes.
      1 cup Red wine
    • Add the butter to the sauce and stir until melted and incorporated.
      1 t Butter
    • Transfer the sauce to a serving dish, straining it through a fine-mesh strainer to remove the onions from the sauce.
    • Pat the meat dry with paper towels. Heat a heavy bottom or cast iron pan over high heat to the point of smoking.
    • Sear the short ribs for 1 minute on all sides to get an amazing crust.
    • Serve with the red wine reduction sauce.

    Notes

    Can I use boneless short ribs for this recipe?
    Absolutely, yes! Boneless short ribs will work well for this recipe. But know that a bone will give you an extra layer of flavor to the meat and a bit more stability when searing the beef.
    Can these ribs be made ahead?
    These short ribs can be cooked up to a week ahead of serving. Just be sure to properly cool them down before storing them in the refrigerator.

    Nutrition

    Serving: 1servingCalories: 421kcalCarbohydrates: 4gProtein: 32gFat: 25gSaturated Fat: 9gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 100mgSodium: 120mgPotassium: 690mgFiber: 1gSugar: 1gVitamin A: 33IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 24mgIron: 4mg

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    1. Sarah Mock

      April 29, 2021 at 10:57 am

      Give it a try! Be sure to use a wine that you would want to drink. In fact, I drink a glass while the sauce is reducing.

    2. Lynndee

      April 29, 2021 at 10:13 am

      I have never tried preparing short ribs with wine. I will have to give your recipe a try. Looks good!

    3. Sarah Mock

      April 29, 2021 at 8:35 am

      thanks Catalina! I think they are pretty irresistible too. Bon appetite!

    4. Sarah Mock

      April 29, 2021 at 8:31 am

      This cake is asked for on birthdays and I like to serve this after a school concert. The perfect make-ahead dessert.

    5. Ruth I

      April 29, 2021 at 1:50 am

      5 stars
      This sure looks perfect! I would want to have this on a very special occasion with my family.

    6. Marysa

      April 28, 2021 at 10:29 pm

      My husband would love this recipe. It would be a treat to make this sometime!

    7. Catalina

      April 28, 2021 at 6:12 pm

      5 stars
      Mmmm.... I go crazy over these ribs! So crispy and tender and the red wine make them irresistible!

    8. Sarah Mock

      April 28, 2021 at 1:24 pm

      Kelli,
      Yup! It is amazing what a screaming hot cast iron pan will do. Glad I could teach something today.

      Sarah

    9. Kelli A

      April 28, 2021 at 12:47 pm

      5 stars
      I have read many recipes trying to learn the sous-vide but never understood how they got them to crisp up, seeing you pan fry first now makes all the sense! I really want to try this sometime!

    10. Sarah Mock

      April 28, 2021 at 10:50 am

      Kathy this will be the PERFECT recipe to start your sous vide journey. You will appreciate the long cook and the good that comes from it.

      Sarah

    11. Kathy

      April 28, 2021 at 10:15 am

      This looks really good. I have been wanting to try out sous vide. I even have the product, I just haven't really used it much.

    12. Sarah Mock

      April 28, 2021 at 9:40 am

      Amber, they are so good! I have another rack in the fridge ready to heat up for dinner. Perfect for meal prep.

    13. Sarah Mock

      April 28, 2021 at 9:39 am

      It does! Low, slow, consistent. The collagen breaks down beautifully.

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