Smoky, Buttery, Bacony Sous Vide Mash

Anova Culinary

Smoky, buttery, bacon-y mash - yum! This recipe is a truly indulgent-tasting mash with so many great elements. The potato is cooked in smoked salt and then again finished with it for extra smokiness. And you also get double bacon goodness – some is cooked in the bag and more is added as a garnish at the end. Yep, we’ve thought of everything.

Author

Christina Wylie

Christina Wylie is an award-winning writer, author, editor, food stylist, recipe creator, entrepreneur and radio host whose work has been featured in The Times & The Sunday Times, Time Out (Melbourne, Sydney, Hong Kong and Dubai), Traveler’s Digest, Fah Thai Magazine, Broadsheet, Wining & Dining and many other internationally renowned publications. In 2013, after almost a decade of working as an international journalist, Christina founded the online lifestyle magazine The GAB Magazine, for which she now leads a team of 60 writers based all across Australia. She then founded Samui Life Magazine in 2016. After working as a recipe creator for Anova Culinary for over a year, she signed a cookbook contract with the American-based, international publishing company Quarto. Her cookbook, titled The Sous Vide Kitchen: Techniques, Ideas, and More Than 100 Recipes to Cook at Home, was published worldwide in 2017. She wrote, styled, and photographed everything that you see within that book. In 2017 she opened her first restaurant, Bootlegger, in Koh Samui, Thailand. She is currently in the initial stages of launching Bootlegger 2 in Phuket in 2018, and is looking to open Bootlegger 3 in Bangkok in 2019. She is currently working towards stepping into the world of food and travel presenting. As an entrepreneur herself, Christina co-founded the charity initiative Project Gen Z in 2015 to teach orphaned Cambodian children entrepreneurial skills. A British expat born and raised in Hong Kong, Christina has worked across the globe, and has lived in Thailand, London, Hong Kong, Australia and South Africa over the years.

Prep Time: 00:15

Recipe Time: 00:45

Temperature : 194F / 90C

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Preheat your Anova sous vide machine to 194F (90C).
  2. Fry 1/3 cup bacon bits in a skillet over medium heat until they begin to brown, then add the butter and continue to fry until they fully brown, then pour over bacon/butter mixture over the potato slices in a pot, add the milk and 1 tsp smoked salt, and toss to combine.
  3. Lie the potato slices flat in bags (spooning in the creamy sauce from the pot into the bags), seal, put in water bath and set timer to 45 minutes.

Finishing Steps

  1. When the timer goes, pour the contents of the bag into a pot and mash until soft, before pureeing with a hand blender or food processor (just until it reaches a smooth consistency, not until it gets sticky and paste-like).
  2. Then fry the remaining bacon bits and sprinkle over the mash when serving, as well as scattering some additional smoked salt over the top to taste.