Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, simmered meat and potato (nikujaga). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Simmered Meat and Potato (Nikujaga) is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Simmered Meat and Potato (Nikujaga) is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
Today's Oishiy recipe is ''Nikujyaga Simmered Meat and Potato''. It is most popular food among all kinds of simmered dish in Japanese cuisine. Nikujaga quite literally translates to "meat and potatoes" - niku means "meat" and jaga means "potatoes" in Japanese.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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)
- Take 3 onions
- Get 200 g thinly sliced pork or beef (if any, otherwise minced pork)
- Prepare 200 g shirataki (konnyaku noodles)
- Prepare 1/2 tbsp oil
- Take 6 tbsp soy sauce
- Prepare 4 tbsp sugar
- Make ready 1 tbsp butter
It is simmered in the classic Japanese seasonings of soy sauce, sake. Nikujaga literally translated is meat and potatoes. 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.
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.
Like any stew or long simmered food, it will taste even better the next day. The best part about this aside from the flavor? Nikujaga, or meat and potatoes is an easy comforting Japanese stew made with beef, potatoes and carrots. My quick Nikujaga recipe comes together in under My version of this Japanese comfort food is loaded with melt-in-your-mouth tender slices of beef simmered together with sweet onions, and big. Literally "meat and potatoes", the recipe for nikujaga could be considered Japan's answer to spaghetti bolognese.
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