Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, nikujaga. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Nikujaga is one of the most popular Japanese comfort food, the delicious dish Guess what her favorite Japanese food is? Nikujaga (Japanese: 肉じゃが) literally means "meat and. 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.

Nikujaga is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Nikujaga is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have nikujaga using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Nikujaga:

1. Make ready 4 potatoes
2. Get 1 carrot
3. Take 1 onion
4. Make ready 100 grams thin sliced beef or pork
5. Make ready 1 packages shirataki noodle (optional)
6. Make ready 1 cup cooked sugar snap pea/green pea/green bean (optional)
7. Take 600 ml water
8. Prepare 4 tbsp sugar
9. Prepare 4 tbsp soy sauce

If you like soft and fluffy, use Russet potatoes. See great recipes for Japanese Nikujaga (Sliced pork and Potatoes), Nikujaga too! Homepage > Recipes > Beef Recipes > Nikujaga Recipe (Beef and Potatoes Stewed in Savory Soy Sauce Based Dashi Broth). All Reviews for Nikujaga (Japanese-style meat and potatoes).

Steps to make Nikujaga:

1. Cut potatoes into big chunks, and cut carrot into bite sized pieces.
2. Slice the onion into 8 wedges, and seperate each layers.
3. Put all the vegetable (potato, carrot and onion) with 600 ml of water in the pot, and put on medium-high heat
4. Meanwhile, wash shirataki noodle in running water, boil for 1 minute, and wash it again to remove its smell. Cut the noodle if it's too long.
5. When the vegetable pot start boiling, season with sugar and soy sauce.
6. Add sliced beef (or pork) and shirataki noodle, simmered on medium heat until the liquid gone.
7. Garnish with cooked sugar snap pea/ green pea or green bean.
8. I like to add 1tsp of sesame oil in nikujaga right before finish cooking! It gives very nice fragrant to the dish.

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. Nikujaga does not seem typically Japanese since the main ingredients niku (meat) and jagaimo (potatoes) are historically not traditional Japanese foodstuffs. So nikujaga must be somewhat related to Tōgō. In addition to meat and potatoes, sliced onions and Nikujaga is considered to be a representative home cooking dish.

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