Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, nikujaga. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really 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 is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Nikujaga is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have nikujaga using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Nikujaga:

1. Take potatoes
2. Get onions
3. Prepare carrot
4. Take green beans (sayaingen)
5. Prepare pork
6. Take konnyaku
7. Prepare dashi broth
8. Take table spoons sugar
9. Make ready table spoon mirin
10. Prepare table spoons mentsuyu
11. Take table spoons soysauce
12. Prepare ginger

Potatoes used in Nikujaga are anything you like. If you like soft and fluffy, use Russet potatoes. Or if you like smooth and creamy, use Yukon. Nikujaga is a Japanese recipe with thinly sliced meat (usually beef scraps) and potatoes as main ingredient.

Steps to make Nikujaga:

1. Dice potatoes, onions and carrot into bite sizes. Slice the ginger.
2. Put the diced potatoes, onions and carrots in the bottom of the pan.
3. Put the pork on the vegetables in the pan. Add boiled konnnyaku on the top.
4. Add dashi broth and mirin and sugar. Bring to boil and simmer them until they become soft for about 15 minutes with a drop lid.(otoshibuta)
5. Add green bean (sayaingen) in the pan and simmer them all.
6. Add mentsuyu and soy sauce at last in the pan.14.Turn off the heat and discard the otoshibuta. Let it stand for 30 minutes before serving.
7. Serve it in the plate.

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 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 one of those dishes that anyone could wing without a recipe once you know the gist of what it's supposed to taste like.

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