Nikujaga  (Simmered meat and potatoes)
Nikujaga  (Simmered meat and potatoes)

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, nikujaga  (simmered meat and potatoes). One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look 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.

Nikujaga  (Simmered meat and potatoes) is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Nikujaga  (Simmered meat and potatoes) is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook nikujaga  (simmered meat and potatoes) using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Nikujaga  (Simmered meat and potatoes):
  1. Take 6 potatoes
  2. Get 1 onion
  3. Take 1 carrot
  4. Take 200 g sliced beef or pork (ground meat is also ok.)
  5. Prepare 2 tbsp olive oil
  6. Take 6 tbsp sake
  7. Make ready 4 tbsp sugar
  8. Prepare 4 tbsp mirin
  9. Prepare 6 tbsp soy sauce
  10. Prepare 4 cup dashi

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 best. It's a real work horse of the Japanese home kitchen and quite literally translates to "meat and potatoes".

Instructions to make Nikujaga  (Simmered meat and potatoes):
  1. Cut the potatoes and soak into water for a while. Slice onion. Cut carrot and beef into bite-size.  2. Add olive oil to the flying pan and sauté beef.  3. Add onion, carrot, and potato without water and sauté them.  4. Add dashi, sake and sugar. Simmer it for 5 minutes.  5. Skim the scum. Add mirin and soy sauce.  6. Place the paper towel directly on the food and simmer it       for 25 minutes.
  2. Add olive oil to the flying pan and sauté beef.
  3. Add onion, carrot, and potato and sauté them.
  4. Add dashi, sake and sugar. Simmer it for 5 minutes.
  5. Skim the scum. Add mirin and soy sauce.
  6. Place the paper towel directly on the food and simmer it for 25 minutes.

Being high in energy, low on prep time. Literally "meat and potatoes", the recipe for nikujaga could be considered Japan's answer to spaghetti bolognese. A light, simmered dish of meat, potatoes and a few other ingredients, every family will make its own version and have its own opinion on how nikujaga "should" be made. Nikujaga literally translated is meat and potatoes. And this is one version you can make with dashi.

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