Prep time: 10 minutes – Active time: 1 hour 30 minutes – Start to finish: 1 hour 45 minutes
Ingredients
- pork tenderloin ← ½ lb+ per person should be enough as long as you have enough sides
- Kosher salt & fresh ground black pepper, to taste
- aromatic flavoring of your choice ← I used garlic, fresh thyme & shallots
- 2-to-4 TBL olive oil ← enough to sear and not burn the pork
- 4TBL butter
Directions
Every Instant Pot is different, so if you’ve never used your sous vide setting before, I suggest googling how for your specific model. There are a tone of videos out there that will show you how to get going. These instructions are for an Instant Pot Duo Plus.
- Prep the pork
- I seasoned my tenderloin with salt, pepper and garlic before sealing it in the food saver bag.
- If you don’t have a food saver, you can get most of the air out of a ziplock bag by submerging the pork in the bag in water and letting the water pressure force most of the air out of the bag
- Fill your Instant Pot with water to the the half way mark, or until the pork is fully submerged ← key time saver – use really hot water to fill the pot with else you lose up to a ½ hour waiting for the Instant Pot to get the water to the right temperature. Make sure that the water isn’t hotter than the target cooking temperature! you can use a meat thermometer to check if you have one.
- Sous Vide the pork in the Instant Pot Duo Plus
- select the sous vide setting
- set the temperature to 140
- select the sous vide setting again
- set the time duration to 1hr 30min
- note: a shout out here to the site that guided me through how to select the temperature and duration
- Finishing the pork
- Remove pork from the bags and pat dry completely
- The next series of steps take less than 5 minutes. You want to make the pork look more appetizing, sear it but not overcook it, and create a sauce for the dish
- In a large skillet, heat up some olive oil until it is almost smoking
- Sear the pork on all sides until it is slightly browned (and looks appetizing)
- Add butter and aromatics of your choice ← I added fresh thyme and shallots
- Baste the pork with the butter sauce while finishing
- Remove pork from skillet to serving dish and pour the butter sauce on top
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  | I purchased the Instant Pot Duo Plus from Amazon in early December 2020. With all the cooking I’m doing now, I was looking for ways to create yummy meals that didn’t require as much supervision so that I could chill more in the evenings. A key feature I was looking for when making this purchase was that it could also operate as a sous vide. |
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