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Comforting Nikujaga - Simmered Meat and Potatoes is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Comforting Nikujaga - Simmered Meat and Potatoes is something which I have loved my entire life.
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.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook comforting nikujaga - simmered meat and potatoes using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Comforting Nikujaga - Simmered Meat and Potatoes:
- Get 1 small bag Shirataki noodles
- Take 1 Onion
- Get 1/2 Carrot
- Make ready 3 Potatoes
- Get 200 grams Thinly sliced beef offcuts
- Make ready 300 ml Dashi stock (or water + 2 teaspoons of dashi stock granules)
- Prepare 2 tbsp ● Sake
- Get 2 tbsp ● Mirin
- Make ready 3 tbsp ● Sugar (or soft-light brown sugar)
- Get 3 tbsp Soy sauce
- Get 10 Snow peas
- Get 1 tiny bit Butter (optional)
The potatoes are the star of the show. I really enjoy the texture - and breaking into them on a bowl of fresh rice. The beef then provides most of the flavor. If you make this at home - tag us on IG.
Steps to make Comforting Nikujaga - Simmered Meat and Potatoes:
- Chop up the shirataki noodles roughly, and blanch in boiling water. Drain.
- Cut the onion into large wedges. Cut up the carrot roughly.
- Cut the potatoes into bite-sized pieces. Shave off the cut edges to round them off, and put into a bowl of water.
- Heat up a tablespoon of oil (not listed in ingredient list) in a pan over low heat, and stir-fry the beef. (Make sure the meat doesn't stick.)
- Add the onion and carrot and keep on stir-frying.
- Add the potatoes and shirataki and stir-fry so everything gets coated with oil.
- Add the dashi stock. Turn the heat up to medium. When it comes to a boil skim off the scum, add the ● ingredients, drop a small lid right on top of the food and simmer over low heat for 20 minutes.
- Add the soy sauce and simmer for another 10 minutes.
- Transfer to serving plates. Take the strings off the snow peas and boil them in salted water. Finely julienne and scatter over the meat and potatoes. Add a bit of butter to add richness.
We'd love to see heh! - Daniel out 🕺. Nikujaga - Simmered Potatoes & Beef. 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 best. It's a real work horse of the Japanese home kitchen and quite literally translates to "meat and potatoes". Being high in energy, low on prep time.
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