Japanese Meat Potato Stew (Nikujaga)

Nikujaga

Nikujaga is one the most famous or delicious food from japan it contain of meat, potatoes and onion stewed in sweetened soy sauce, sometimes with Konjac(Amorphophallus konjac) and vegetables.
It's common served in winter, with a bowl of rice and miso soup.

Ingredient

Nikujaga Ingredient

• 1 Tbsp. Canola oil
• 1 Tbsp. Sesame oil
• ¾ pound thinly sliced beef rib eye
• 4 potatoes, peeled and cut into 1 inch chunks
• 3 carrots, peeled and quartered
• 2 yellow onions, cut in half and sliced
• 2 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
• 2 cups chicken stock
• 2 Tbsp. sake
• 2 Tbsp. soy sauce
• 3 Tbsp mirin
• 1 Tbsp sugar (add more sugar if like more sweetenes and remove mirin).

Steps

1. Cut onion into 10 wedges(it actually up to you but i recomended from 8-12 wedges).

2. Peel the carot then cut it into 3-4 slice.

3. Peel the potato ad cut it ito 4 wedges, don't forget to smoothing the sharp edges.


4. Add boil oils in the pan and set medium high heat.

5. Add sliced beef.

6. Saute the oil and beef until it slightly brown.

7. Add onions, carrot, garlic, and potatoes then mix it with beef. Make sure all the ingredients are covered by the soup.

8. Remove the glaze from pan with sake then add stock, soy sauce, mirin ,and sugar. Boil it and remove the meat fat and scum.

9. Reduce the heat from medium to low, cover pan with alumunium foil, continue to cook until carrots and potatoes are tender and the liquid are absorbed.
And it ready to serve.