Japanese ”Nikujaga” the Potato and Pork Stew. Check Out The Potato On eBay. Great recipe for Japanese "Nikujaga" the Potato and Pork Stew. This savory dish is a comfort food for many Japanese people.
Nikujaga is a very special dish in Japan. It's a dish of sliced pork and potato and other ingredients stewed with soy sauce based seasonings. It's so traditional and classic that you could tell people "I know how to make Japanese dishes!" once you learn how to make nikujaga. You can have Japanese ”Nikujaga” the Potato and Pork Stew using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Japanese ”Nikujaga” the Potato and Pork Stew
- It's 200 g of Thin sliced pork belly.
- It's 1 Table Spoon of oil.
- It's 400 g of Potato.
- You need 150 g of Onion.
- You need 90 g of Carrot.
- It's 1 Bag of Shirataki ※If you cannot find it, you don't have to use it.
- It's 250 ml of Dashi stock (please check out my Dashi stock recipe).
- You need of ☆Seasoning 1☆.
- You need 2 Table Spoon of Sugar.
- Prepare 2 Table Spoon of Sake.
- You need 2 Table Spoon of Mirin.
- You need of ☆Seasoning 2☆.
- Prepare 2 1/2 Table Spoon of Soy Sauce.
One time before I got married, I was going to cook for my boyfriend (current husband). 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'.
Japanese ”Nikujaga” the Potato and Pork Stew step by step
- Cut potato into big bite size, and put in water for 5 minutes, then dry with kitchen towel. Also, cut carrot into big bite size, then set aside. Slice onion into 1 cm (half a inch) thick along the fiber..
- Heat a deep pot over medium heat, and put oil to fry the meat until it changes the color to brown..
- Add 1 to 2, then fry until the surface of potato is slightly translucent, then add Dashi Stock. Mix lightly and add all the ingredients of Seasoning 1. Mix as well. Turn the heat to medium high..
- Take out Lye (foamy texture waste that floats on the surface), then cook for 3~5 minutes. Add Seasoning 2 (soy sauce), and shirataki as well..
- Keep cooking until the potato is tender, and most of moisture is evaporated, then serve. ※Make sure to stir every 2~3 minutes to avoid its burned..
- Plate and serve. Garnish if you like :).
Nikujaga (Japanese meat and potato stew) Nikujaga literally translated is meat and potatoes. And this is one version you can make with dashi. There are all kinds of variations on nikujaga since it's a popular comfort food. Nikujaga is literally meat (niku) and potatoes (jagaimo) in Japanese. It is a stewed dish seasoned with mainly soy sauce and sugar.
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