Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, nikujaga. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Nikujaga is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Nikujaga is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

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.

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

The ingredients needed to make Nikujaga:

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

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. A staple in Japanese cooking, nikujaga is a delicious Japanese dish made primarily from two main ingredients: meat (niku) and potatoes (jagaimo).

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.

It is mainly cooked during the weekday because it is so easy and quick to cook. It is also a dish that tastes even better the next day. Nikujaga (肉じゃが) (meaning meat-potato) is a Japanese beef stew. Niku(肉) means "meat" in Japanese, and jaga is short for jagaimo(ジャガイモ) which means "potatoes". Put the two together, and you have yourself a Japanese stew featuring meat and potatoes!

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