Comforting Nikujaga - Simmered Meat and Potatoes
Comforting Nikujaga - Simmered Meat and Potatoes

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Nikujaga, or meat and potatoes is an easy comforting Japanese stew made with beef, potatoes and carrots. Literally "meat and potatoes", the recipe for nikujaga could be considered Japan's answer to spaghetti bolognese. Nikujaga (Simmered meat and potatoes) step by step.

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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have comforting nikujaga - simmered meat and potatoes using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Comforting Nikujaga - Simmered Meat and Potatoes:
  1. Make ready bag Shirataki noodles
  2. Take Onion
  3. Make ready Carrot
  4. Take Potatoes
  5. Get Thinly sliced beef offcuts
  6. Take Dashi stock (or water + 2 teaspoons of dashi stock granules)
  7. Make ready ● Sake
  8. Prepare ● Mirin
  9. Get ● Sugar (or soft-light brown sugar)
  10. Take Soy sauce
  11. Prepare Snow peas
  12. Make ready tiny bit Butter (optional)

Quick Nikujaga (Meat and Potato Stew) Easy to make, delicious, AND filling, it's no wonder Nikujaga is a perennial favorite of home cooks throughout Japan. My version of this Japanese comfort food is loaded with melt-in-your-mouth tender slices of beef simmered together with sweet onions, and big chunks of potatoes, carrots, and tomatoes. Great recipe for Comforting Nikujaga - Simmered Meat and Potatoes. We had some really delicious nikujaga at an izakaya (Japanese gastropub).

Instructions to make Comforting Nikujaga - Simmered Meat and Potatoes:
  1. Chop up the shirataki noodles roughly, and blanch in boiling water. Drain.
  2. Cut the onion into large wedges. Cut up the carrot roughly.
  3. Cut the potatoes into bite-sized pieces. Shave off the cut edges to round them off, and put into a bowl of water.
  4. Heat up a tablespoon of oil (not listed in ingredient list) in a pan over low heat, and stir-fry the beef. (Make sure the meat doesn't stick.)
  5. Add the onion and carrot and keep on stir-frying.
  6. Add the potatoes and shirataki and stir-fry so everything gets coated with oil.
  7. Add the dashi stock. Turn the heat up to medium. When it comes to a boil skim off the scum, add the ● ingredients, drop a small lid right on top of the food and simmer over low heat for 20 minutes.
  8. Add the soy sauce and simmer for another 10 minutes.
  9. Transfer to serving plates. Take the strings off the snow peas and boil them in salted water. Finely julienne and scatter over the meat and potatoes. Add a bit of butter to add richness.

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