Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, nikujaga. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Nikujaga is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Nikujaga is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
As two of the main ingredients are niku (meat) and jagaimo (potatoes), Nikujaga (肉じゃが) literally means "meat and potatoes". It is an iconic Japanese home-cooked dish, known as "Ofukuro no Aji" - taste of mother's cooking. For many, nikujaga is an honest-to-goodness comfort food. Nikujaga is literally meat (niku) and potatoes (jagaimo) in Japanese.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have nikujaga using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Nikujaga:
- Take 6 large sized potatoes
- Take 1 large sized carrot
- Take 1 large sized onion
- Take 1 lb chopped meat(beef or pork)
- Prepare 1 packed shirataki (Noodles made from konnyaku)
- Take Sauce
- Take 1 tbsp soy sauce
- Make ready 1 tbsp mirin (sweet cooking rice wine)
- Make ready 1 tbsp cooking sake
- Get 1 tbsp sugar
- Prepare 2 cups water
Or if you like smooth and creamy, use Yukon. 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 not meant to be a hearty beef stew.
Instructions to make Nikujaga:
- Chop the potato and carrot into large pieces. Slice the onion into wedges.
- Lay 2tbsp oil into the pot on high heat, cook the meat until they browned a little. Then add potatoes, carrots and onions,and cook them too.
- Put mixed sauce and heat. When it boils, skim the scum. Add shirataki and stir, drop lid (or tinfoil) sits in the pot directly on the food on high heat for 10 mins.
- Stir them once and simmer them for more 10 mins as the taste will soak in.
- Enjoy them!
Dashi is an incredibly simple broth, and it forms one of the culinary cornerstones of Japanese cooking. Nikujaga is not meant to be a hearty beef stew. Rather, the bulk of the dish is supposed to be the potatoes, while the beef is there merely to flavor the broth. I have a Japanese foreign exchange student whose been missing the food from home. A staple in Japanese cooking, nikujaga is a delicious Japanese dish made primarily from two main ingredients: meat (niku) and potatoes (jagaimo).
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