Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, nikujaga (simmered meat and potatoes). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Nikujaga (Simmered meat and potatoes) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Nikujaga (Simmered meat and potatoes) is something which I’ve loved my whole 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 begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have 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):
- Prepare 6 potatoes
- Get 1 onion
- Make ready 1 carrot
- Make ready 200 g sliced beef or pork (ground meat is also ok.)
- Get 2 tbsp olive oil
- Get 6 tbsp sake
- Make ready 4 tbsp sugar
- Take 4 tbsp mirin
- Make ready 6 tbsp soy sauce
- Prepare 4 cup dashi
Cooking Sun is Japanese cooking class in Tokyo and Kyoto. Our Youtube video is taken our headquarter's Kyoto studio. 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.
Steps to make Nikujaga (Simmered meat and potatoes):
- 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.
- Add olive oil to the flying pan and sauté beef.
- Add onion, carrot, and potato and sauté them.
- Add dashi, sake and sugar. Simmer it for 5 minutes.
- Skim the scum. Add mirin and soy sauce.
- Place the paper towel directly on the food and simmer it for 25 minutes.
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. Nikujaga (肉じゃが) Japanese Meat and Potatoes. If you were to ask me what my favourite winter dish was growing up, I would definitely say nikujaga (肉じゃが).
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