Nikujaga
Nikujaga

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, nikujaga. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Nikujaga is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Nikujaga is something which I have loved my whole life.

Nikujaga (Japanese: 肉じゃが) literally means "meat and potatoes", from two of the main ingredients niku (meat) and jaga imo (potatoes). It's a comfort food for the Japanese and it is a very popular meal cooked at home. Nikujaga is literally meat (niku) and potatoes (jagaimo) in Japanese. It is a stewed dish seasoned with mainly soy sauce and sugar.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook nikujaga using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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

The beef in Nikujaga is added more for flavor than substance. This is a real workhorse of the Japanese home kitchen. Nikujaga is a delicious Japanese dish made primarily from two main ingredients: meat (" niku ") and potatoes (" jaga imo"). It is one of the staple Japanese weekday dinner dishes.

Instructions 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 a delicious Japanese dish made primarily from two main ingredients: meat (" niku ") and potatoes (" jaga imo"). It is one of the staple Japanese weekday dinner dishes. So it is quick to cook and satisfies all the family's taste buds. We are making Nikujaga, one of the most popular dishes in home cooking. This time, we will add a minimum amount of water to bring out the maximum flavor from the ingredients.

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