Simple Always-Juicy Chicken Breasts

This basic, no-frills recipe for cooking skinless chicken breasts in the Anova Precision Oven is a great starting point to add your own spin. It uses 100% steam and sous vide express to achieve juicy results every time. To speed up cooking time, set the oven temperature just above the target doneness you're after. This technique gives sous-vide-like results — a.k.a. perfect edge-to-edge doneness — but with a dramatically shorter cooking time. It's a happy compromise between the perfection of equilibrium cooking and traditional cooking. Using 100% steam will help the meat retain all of its flavorful juices, since they can't evaporate into already humidified air. Notes: This method works for both boneless and bone-in skinless chicken breasts. You can scale the recipe up to as many portions as you like and the times and temperatures will remain the same.