Simple Way to Make Perfect Nikujaga

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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.

Nikujaga is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Nikujaga is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook nikujaga using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Nikujaga:

1. Get 250 g beef/pork belly, thinly sliced
2. Make ready 500 g potatoes
3. Take 1 large onion
4. Prepare 1 carrot
5. Prepare 1 pack konjac noodles
6. Take Seasoning
7. Get 1 tablespoon sugar
8. Prepare 2 tablespoon soy sauce
9. Make ready 50 ml sake
10. Take 1 tablespoon sesame oil

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 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.
2. 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.
3. Next, add the sake and cover the pot with a lid. Let it simmer for 10 minutes.
4. First check if the potatoes are cooked, and if they are, add the soy sauce and sugar and simmer for another 10 minutes.
5. 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 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. Nikujaga (肉じゃが) (meaning meat-potato) is a Japanese beef stew. This is a dish that is high in energy, low on prep time and very tasty.

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