Nikujaga - potato and meat stew  -
Nikujaga - potato and meat stew  -

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook nikujaga - potato and meat stew  - using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Nikujaga - potato and meat stew  -:
  1. Prepare 200 g thinly sliced beef
  2. Get 1 onion
  3. Take 1-2 carrot
  4. Get 4-5 potatoes
  5. Make ready 300 g Shirataki noodles
  6. Take 8-10 mange touts (anything green to make up the dish colorful and tasty)
  7. Take 20 g ginger
  8. Prepare 1 Tbs sugar
  9. Take 2 Tbs sake (or white wine)
  10. Prepare 2 Tbs mirin
  11. Make ready 3 Tbs soysauce
  12. Get 1 tsp vegetable oil
  13. Take 1 pinch salt

It is very much mom's cooking everyone loves. Potatoes used in Nikujaga are anything you like. This stew is called ' nikujaga ' (肉じゃが) in Japanese, which literally means meat and potatoes - the key ingredients of this dish. Meat is ' niku' (肉) in Japanese and potato is ' jagaimo ' (じゃがいも).

Instructions to make Nikujaga - potato and meat stew  -:
  1. Peel potatoes and carrots, cut in to bite-sized pieces(a bit larger for potatoes). Peel and cut onion into 8~10 pieces. Cut ginger into thin strips. String peas(mange touts).
  2. Blanch shirataki noodle, by putting it in boiled water for 1 min.
  3. Heat oil in a pot, cook the meat. Add sugar and sake. When the color of the meat has changed, add ginger, shirataki noodles, onion, carrot, and potato, pan fry with meat for approx. 2 min.
  4. Add just enough amount of water, so that some ingredients are appears above the water. Add mirin, soysauce, salt and let them boil.
  5. When the pot comes to boil, cover with a drop-lid, simmer for 15 minutes over a middle flame.
  6. Add mange touts, simmer for another minute, and stop the heat. Leave it for a couple minutes and serve.

This stew is called ' nikujaga ' (肉じゃが) in Japanese, which literally means meat and potatoes - the key ingredients of this dish. Meat is ' niku' (肉) in Japanese and potato is ' jagaimo ' (じゃがいも). But instead of calling it 'nikujagaimo', the word for potato is shortened to 'jaga'. Tonight's dish is a simple to prepare Japanese meal. Nikujaga is a home-cooked dish, a meat, potato and onion stew cooked in sweetened soy sauce.

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