Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, nikujaga. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Nikujaga (Japanese: 肉じゃが) literally means "meat and potatoes", from two of the main ingredients niku (meat) and jagaimo (potatoes). It's a comfort food for the Japanese and it is a very popular meal cooked at home. It is often considered as "mother's taste" meal ("ofukuro no aji" おふくろの味 in Japanese) as each. Nikujaga (肉じゃが, lit."Meat [&] Potatoes" ) is a Japanese dish of meat, potatoes and onion stewed in sweetened soy sauce and mirin, sometimes with ito konnyaku and vegetables.
Nikujaga is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Nikujaga is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook nikujaga using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Nikujaga:
- Take 250 g beef/pork belly, thinly sliced
- Make ready 500 g potatoes
- Take 1 large onion
- Take 1 carrot
- Prepare 1 pack konjac noodles
- Get Seasoning
- Make ready 1 tablespoon sugar
- Take 2 tablespoon soy sauce
- Prepare 50 ml sake
- Take 1 tablespoon sesame oil
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 a Japanese recipe with thinly sliced meat (usually beef scraps) and potatoes as main ingredient. It has soy sauce based sauce and can be served as a main dish or side dish.
Steps to make Nikujaga:
- Cut the onion into 1cm slices, and oblique cut the potatoes and carrot. In a strainer, pour boiling water over the noodles and cut them into shorter strands.
- In a pot, add the sesame oil before stir frying the beef/pork over medium heat until brown. Then, combine the noodles, carrot, and potatoes, and stir fry for another 5 minutes.
- Next, add the sake and cover the pot with a lid. Let it simmer for 10 minutes.
- First check if the potatoes are cooked, and if they are, add the soy sauce and sugar and simmer for another 10 minutes.
- Once the 10 minutes have passed, shake the pot to mix the contents. Leave the lid on, turn off the fire, and let it sit until it has cooled.
Nikujaga is a Japanese recipe with thinly sliced meat (usually beef scraps) and potatoes as main ingredient. It has soy sauce based sauce and can be served as a main dish or side dish. Making nikujaga is very easy in the stove top but this microwave pressure cooker recipe further simplifies the cooking process. Nikujaga is one of those dishes that anyone could wing without a recipe once you know the gist of what it's supposed to taste like. The beef can be anything from ground chuck to short ribs; just make sure you use a cut with enough fat, otherwise the meat will get dried out.
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