Sous Vide Beef Wellington with Cream and White Wine Mushroom Sauce

Anova Culinary

Perfectly cooked beef fillet coated in a flavor-packed mushroom paste and topped with a light and crispy pastry round.

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: 02:00

Recipe Time: 02:00

Temperature : 129.2F / 54C

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Set Anova Sous Vide Precision Cooker to 129F / 54C. Seal the steaks put them in the pre-heated water bath for 2 hours.
  2. Preheat the oven to 200C / 400F. Cut circle shapes out of the defrosted puff pastry that are about the same size as the steaks.
  3. Beat egg and and paint on top of the puff pastry. Bake in the oven at 200C / 400F for 8-10 minutes or until it is golden and puffed up.
  4. Make the sauce. Fry shallots and garlic in butter in a pot over a medium heat. Add the mushrooms and saute for around 10 minutes with the white wine. Stir in the whipped cream, salt and pepper and remove from the heat.

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  1. Take steaks out of the bag and pat try with paper towels. Generously season the steaks with salt and pepper and sear individually in a smoking hot pan. Add a new knob of butter for each steak, and wipe the pan down each time with paper towels.