Author Notes
Beef tenderloin cooked sous-vide with a cherry and sherry sauce is a dish inspired by Masterchef Spain season 4 won with. The show's recipe isn’t out yet, but I’ve tried to reproduce it the best I could from this Andalusian lady contestant. —The FoodOlic
Ingredients
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500 grams
beef tenderloin
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100 milliliters
Sherry (oloroso)
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15
cherries
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1 teaspoon
balsamic vinegar
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1 tablespoon
cornstarch
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2
french shallots minced
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1 tablespoon
honey
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50 milliliters
beef broth
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10 grams
butter
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1
laurel leaf
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1
rosemary branch
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1 tablespoon
olive oil
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salt and pepper
Directions
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Cook the tenderloin sous-vide at 58°C (135F) for 2 hours (thick piece) for a medium coccion 54°C for medium-rare with a small branch of rosemary, salt and pepper or cook the tenderloin your favorite way
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Add the shallots to a sauce pan with a touch of olive oil and salt, cook them slowly until translucent
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Add the cherries, sherry, broth, vinegar, water, honey, garlic and laurel to the saucepan and reduce, medium high heat, for 10 minutes
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Mash good the cherries so they give their juice
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Pass the sauce through a sieve and push down with a spoon to collect all the juice
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Add the sauce to a clean saucepan and add the cornstarch mix
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Let simmer until thick (covers the back of a spoon)
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Take off the fire and add the butter and mix well
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Sear the whole piece of tenderloin, high heat , on every side
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Cut into nice thick pieces and serve with the cherry sherry sauce (if cooked sous-vide, no need to wait before cutting into the tenderloin, if done otherwise, wait 10-15 minutes before cutting into it)
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