Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, nikujaga (meat and potato stew). One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Nikujaga is literally meat (niku) and potatoes (jagaimo) in Japanese. It is a stewed dish seasoned with mainly soy sauce and sugar. It is very much mom's cooking everyone loves.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have nikujaga (meat and potato stew) using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make NIKUJAGA (Meat and Potato Stew):

1. Take 150 g(5.3oz-) Sliced Beef
2. Take 4-5 Potato
3. Get 1/2 Carrot
4. Make ready 1 Onion
5. Get 8 Green beans
6. Take 150 g(5.3oz) SHIRATAKI (konjac noodles)
7. Make ready 2 TBSP Salad Oil
8. Prepare 400 ml (about 13 and 1/3oz) Water
9. Get 10 cm KONBU
10. Take Handful KATUOBUSHI Bonito Flakes
11. Prepare 5 tbsp Soy sauce
12. Take 4 tbsp Sugar
13. Take 3 tbsp mirin

Easy to make and delightfully filling, this nikujaga is perfect for enjoying as a main home-cooked meal. 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). Nikujaga, Japanese beef and potato stew, is flavored with dashi, soy sauce, sake and mirin.

Steps to make NIKUJAGA (Meat and Potato Stew):

1. First of all. To prepare the SHIRATAKI, Rinse and drain well. and Boil for 3 minutes, drain and cut into easy to eat length. set aside.
2. To make the DASHI soup stock, Put Water and KONBU in a Pot, and Boil it. Remove from the heat. Add KATSUOBUSHI Bonito Flakes. Strain the DASHI soup stock through a Strainer.
3. Cut Potato into 4-6 pieces and soak in water. Cut carrots in rolling edges. Cut Onion into 1 cm slices. Cut Green beans into 5cm. and Cut Beef into about 5cm.
4. In a Large Pot, Stir-fry the beef with salad oil until no longer red. Add Potato, Carrot, Onion and Stir-fry until translucent at the potato edges.
5. Add the DASHI soup stock. Bring to a boil over low-medium heat. Skim off any foamy scum. Add Soy sauce, Sugar, MIRIN. Simmer for about 15 minutes until vegetables are tender.
6. Add SHIRATAKI and Green beans. Simmer for about 5 minutes.
7. Now, It's ready to be served!! Note: NIKUJAGA tastes better the next day too.

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! Despite the uninspired name, the dish itself is a brilliant remix of traditional western stew ingredients prepared in a Japanese way. Nikujaga, literally meaning meat-potato, is perhaps one of the most straightforward and comforting dishes in the Japanese repertoire. It's traditionally made of meat, potatoes and onion stewed in sweetened soy sauce, sometimes with konnyaku, a gluten-free noodle made from yam.

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