Nikujaga
Nikujaga

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, nikujaga. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Nikujaga is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Nikujaga is something that I’ve 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 get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook nikujaga using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Nikujaga:
  1. Take potatoes
  2. Take carrot
  3. Prepare onion
  4. Take thin sliced beef or pork
  5. Take shirataki noodle (optional)
  6. Prepare cooked sugar snap pea/green pea/green bean (optional)
  7. Take water
  8. Prepare sugar
  9. Make ready 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.

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 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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