Nikujaga - potato and meat stew  -
Nikujaga - potato and meat stew  -

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Easy to make japanese dish perfect for enjoying as a main home-cooked meal with your family and friends. I call it stew but Japanese Meat and Potato Stew is nowhere near the Western style stew. The cooking liquid is based on the usual Japanese It is perhaps closer to Irish stew with Japanese style broth.

Nikujaga - potato and meat stew  - is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Nikujaga - potato and meat stew  - is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook nikujaga - potato and meat stew  - using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Nikujaga - potato and meat stew  -:
  1. Make ready 200 g thinly sliced beef
  2. Make ready 1 onion
  3. Take 1-2 carrot
  4. Take 4-5 potatoes
  5. Take 300 g Shirataki noodles
  6. Get 8-10 mange touts (anything green to make up the dish colorful and tasty)
  7. Take 20 g ginger
  8. Take 1 Tbs sugar
  9. Take 2 Tbs sake (or white wine)
  10. Get 2 Tbs mirin
  11. Get 3 Tbs soysauce
  12. Make ready 1 tsp vegetable oil
  13. Get 1 pinch salt

My quick Nikujaga recipe comes together The most common type of meat used for Nikujaga is beef, but I've also seen it done with pork. The meat is almost always thinly sliced which helps it. Nikujaga is made from thinly sliced beef stewed with potato and onions in a slightly sweet soy based sauce, normally served with a side of steamed white rice. Warm some vegetable oil in a frying pan, then add the onions cook over a medium heat for a few moments before adding the meat and letting.

Steps to make Nikujaga - potato and meat stew  -:
  1. Peel potatoes and carrots, cut in to bite-sized pieces(a bit larger for potatoes). Peel and cut onion into 8~10 pieces. Cut ginger into thin strips. String peas(mange touts).
  2. Blanch shirataki noodle, by putting it in boiled water for 1 min.
  3. Heat oil in a pot, cook the meat. Add sugar and sake. When the color of the meat has changed, add ginger, shirataki noodles, onion, carrot, and potato, pan fry with meat for approx. 2 min.
  4. Add just enough amount of water, so that some ingredients are appears above the water. Add mirin, soysauce, salt and let them boil.
  5. When the pot comes to boil, cover with a drop-lid, simmer for 15 minutes over a middle flame.
  6. Add mange touts, simmer for another minute, and stop the heat. Leave it for a couple minutes and serve.

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. Like any stew or long simmered food, it will taste even better the next day. The best part about this aside from the flavor?

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