Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, nikujaga. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Nikujaga is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Nikujaga is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
Nikujaga (Japanese: 肉じゃが) literally means "meat and potatoes", from two of the main ingredients niku (meat) and jagaimo (potatoes). It's a comfort food for the Japanese and it is a very popular meal cooked at home. It is often considered as "mother's taste" meal ("ofukuro no aji" おふくろの味 in Japanese) as each.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook nikujaga using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Nikujaga:
- Get 3 potatoes
- Prepare 2 onions
- Make ready 1 carrot
- Make ready 5 green beans (sayaingen)
- Prepare 200 g pork
- Prepare 100 g konnyaku
- Take 400 mg dashi broth
- Get 3 table spoons sugar
- Prepare 3 table spoon mirin
- Take 2 table spoons mentsuyu
- Prepare 3 table spoons soysauce
- Make ready ginger
Nikujaga is cooked in dashi because it adds umami (a savory taste), but low-sodium beef stock or even water would work fine. Dashi is an incredibly simple broth, and it forms one of the culinary cornerstones of Japanese cooking. Nikujaga is literally meat (niku) and potatoes (jagaimo) in Japanese. It is a stewed dish seasoned with mainly soy sauce and sugar.
Steps to make Nikujaga:
- Dice potatoes, onions and carrot into bite sizes. Slice the ginger.
- Put the diced potatoes, onions and carrots in the bottom of the pan.
- Put the pork on the vegetables in the pan. Add boiled konnnyaku on the top.
- Add dashi broth and mirin and sugar. Bring to boil and simmer them until they become soft for about 15 minutes with a drop lid.(otoshibuta)
- Add green bean (sayaingen) in the pan and simmer them all.
- Add mentsuyu and soy sauce at last in the pan.14.Turn off the heat and discard the otoshibuta. Let it stand for 30 minutes before serving.
- Serve it in the plate.
It is very much mom's cooking everyone loves. Potatoes used in Nikujaga are anything you like. If you like soft and fluffy, use Russet potatoes. Or if you like smooth and creamy, use Yukon. Niku(肉) means "meat" in Japanese, and jaga is short for jagaimo(ジャガイモ) which means "potatoes".
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