Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, simmered meat and potato (nikujaga). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Nikujaga quite literally translates to "meat and potatoes" - niku means "meat" and jaga means "potatoes" in Japanese. It's a comfort food and the Japanese version of beef stew. The beef in Nikujaga is added more for flavor than substance.
Simmered Meat and Potato (Nikujaga) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Simmered Meat and Potato (Nikujaga) is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook simmered meat and potato (nikujaga) using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Simmered Meat and Potato (Nikujaga):
- Prepare 4-5 potatoes (approx. 500 g)
- Get 3 onions
- Make ready 200 g thinly sliced pork or beef (if any, otherwise minced pork)
- Take 200 g shirataki (konnyaku noodles)
- Make ready 1/2 tbsp oil
- Get 6 tbsp soy sauce
- Get 4 tbsp sugar
- Make ready 1 tbsp butter
And this is one version you can make with dashi. There are all kinds of variations on nikujaga since it's a popular comfort food. Like any stew or long simmered food, it will taste even better the next day. The best part about this aside from the flavor?
Steps to make Simmered Meat and Potato (Nikujaga):
- Cut the potatoes into bite-size chunks. Cut the onions into wedges. And cut the carrot into random pieces. Boil the konnyaku noodles for about 5 minutes and drain water. Cut them into bite-length.
- Heat the oil in a pot and fry the onion for 2 minutes. Add the carrot and the potatoes and keep frying. Put the meat and the konnyaku noodles over them. Add the soy sauce and the sugar. Then, cover with a lid. Don't mix them now.
- Turn down the heat to medium-low heat and simmer for 15 minutes with the lid. 15 minutes later, open the lid and mix all ingredients in the pot.
- Simmer with the lid again for 8 ~ 10 minutes over medium-low heat until the potatoes are cooked. Open the lid and add some butter.
Home » International Foods » Nikujaga - Japanese Simmered Beef and Potatoes. The Japanese navy chefs were ordered to create a version of beef stew that the British Royal Navy were eating! With beef and potatoes simmered in a sweet soy stock until meltingly tender, Nikujaga (肉じゃが), or "meat potatoes" is Japanese comfort food at its If Japan had burly roughnecks and lumberjacks, Nikujaga (肉じゃが) would be their meal. It's a real work horse of the Japanese home kitchen and. Nikujaga, stewed potatoes with meat, is a staple of Japanese home cooking. It's filling and comforting, and appears quite frequently for dinner at our house.
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