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Nikujaga (meat and potato stew) Recipe. 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. Easy to make and delightfully filling, this nikujaga is perfect for enjoying as a main home-cooked meal.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook nikujaga - potato and meat stew - using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Nikujaga - potato and meat stew -:
- Prepare 200 g thinly sliced beef
- Get 1 onion
- Prepare 1-2 carrot
- Take 4-5 potatoes
- Get 300 g Shirataki noodles
- Prepare 8-10 mange touts (anything green to make up the dish colorful and tasty)
- Get 20 g ginger
- Prepare 1 Tbs sugar
- Prepare 2 Tbs sake (or white wine)
- Make ready 2 Tbs mirin
- Get 3 Tbs soysauce
- Take 1 tsp vegetable oil
- Get 1 pinch salt
It's a comfort food and the Japanese version of beef stew. The beef in Nikujaga is added more for flavor than substance. This is a real workhorse of the Japanese home kitchen. Niku(肉) means "meat" in Japanese, and jaga is short for jagaimo(ジャガイモ) which means "potatoes".
Instructions to make Nikujaga - potato and meat stew -:
- 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).
- Blanch shirataki noodle, by putting it in boiled water for 1 min.
- 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.
- Add just enough amount of water, so that some ingredients are appears above the water. Add mirin, soysauce, salt and let them boil.
- When the pot comes to boil, cover with a drop-lid, simmer for 15 minutes over a middle flame.
- Add mange touts, simmer for another minute, and stop the heat. Leave it for a couple minutes and serve.
Put the two together, and you have yourself a Japanese stew featuring meat and potatoes! Despite the uninspired name, the dish itself is a brilliant remix of traditional western stew ingredients prepared in a Japanese way. I decided to combine the two and make nikujaga or meat and potatoes. Nikujaga is a Japanese version of a beef stew that is simmered in the classic Japanese seasonings of soy, sugar, sake and mirin. The stew ends up with a really nice blend of sweet and salty which works surprising well.
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