Nikujaga  (Simmered meat and potatoes)
Nikujaga  (Simmered meat and potatoes)

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, nikujaga  (simmered meat and potatoes). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Cooking Sun is Japanese cooking class in Tokyo and Kyoto. Our Youtube video is taken our headquarter's Kyoto studio. Nikujaga (Japanese: 肉じゃが) literally means "meat and potatoes", from two of the main ingredients niku (meat) and jagaimo (potatoes).

Nikujaga  (Simmered meat and potatoes) is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Nikujaga  (Simmered meat and potatoes) is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first 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):
  1. Get 6 potatoes
  2. Make ready 1 onion
  3. Make ready 1 carrot
  4. Make ready 200 g sliced beef or pork (ground meat is also ok.)
  5. Take 2 tbsp olive oil
  6. Prepare 6 tbsp sake
  7. Make ready 4 tbsp sugar
  8. Make ready 4 tbsp mirin
  9. Prepare 6 tbsp soy sauce
  10. Make ready 4 cup dashi

Home » International Foods » Nikujaga - Japanese Simmered Beef and Potatoes. The Japanese navy chefs were ordered to create a version of beef stew that the British Royal Navy were eating! 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".

Steps to make Nikujaga  (Simmered meat and potatoes):
  1. 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.
  2. Add olive oil to the flying pan and sauté beef.
  3. Add onion, carrot, and potato 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.

Nikujaga is literally meat (niku) and potatoes (jagaimo) in Japanese. It is a stewed dish seasoned with mainly soy sauce and sugar. It is very much mom's cooking Meat in Nikujaga has to be beef (at least I believe that). Where I'm from (Osaka), niku is beef. If someone serves me Nikujaga and I don't see.

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