Yes…I got the guts up to try it again!!  I practically needed counselling over the failure of this dish the first time I made it.  I was hoping to make it again within the week, but I was too scared, but I made it on a whim tonight and it was just lovely.  Someone even said it was the best salmon dish I’ve ever made in the Thermomix!  So for that I guess we have to thank Jeff Brady of thermomix-er.blogspot.com.  He has some great recipes on his blog – so it’s a great site to look at.

When I managed to so monumentally stuff this recipe up a month or so ago – it was my first ever Thermomix failure.  I know that’s not so bad – particularly as I’ve had my thermomix for two and a half years, and I use it at least daily, but it made me feel so bad.  I even emailed Dani and asked whether I was just a sous vide heathen or if I managed to muck something up.

Turns out I must have mucked it up!!

Dani had told me that there were a few variables to this recipe:

• the starting temperature of the water
• the thickness of the salmon fillets
• air in the zip-lock bag

So, I changed a few things this time as I didn’t want another disaster on my hands.

I was completely obsessed with getting as much air out of the ziplock bag as possible.

I boiled the kettle first, let it cool down for 20 minutes or so, and then used the warm water to fill the thermomix bowl.

I put the bagged salmon in the the smallest dish possible – that is, it just fit in.  This meant that I had less water to put in the smaller dish, and I made sure that that water was luke warm water from the tap rather than icy cold water from the tap. The dish I used was a plastic tupperware bowl.

I put the small dish with the salmon in it on the bottom tray of the varoma.  I tried to prop it up with toothpicks, but it didn’t work, so I ended up balancing it on a large cookie cutter shape, which still let the steam through.

I chose two salmon fillets that were pretty equal is size and thickness.  I managed to get them both in one sandwich sized zip lock bag, and from recollection last time I had each one in a separate bag.

I didn’t serve this with the Sorrel Sauce this time, I made a quick salad with spinach leaves, Persian Fetta, slow roasted tomatoes and balsamic vinegar, and it was terrific. I’m afraid the photo doesn’t do it justice, it really looked and tasted lovely.

So, my nerves of steel paid off!!  I’m so relieved!