Comforting Nikujaga - Simmered Meat and Potatoes

We had some really delicious nikujaga at an izakaya (Japanese gastropub). I tried to recreate that flavor.
If you are concerned about this being too sweet, reduce the sugar from 3 to 2 tablespoons.
I recommend adding the butter if you like this to be rich. But it's delicious without the butter too. For 4 servings. Recipe by Matsujun
Comforting Nikujaga - Simmered Meat and Potatoes
We had some really delicious nikujaga at an izakaya (Japanese gastropub). I tried to recreate that flavor.
If you are concerned about this being too sweet, reduce the sugar from 3 to 2 tablespoons.
I recommend adding the butter if you like this to be rich. But it's delicious without the butter too. For 4 servings. Recipe by Matsujun
Cooking Instructions
- 1
Chop up the shirataki noodles roughly, and blanch in boiling water. Drain.
- 2
Cut the onion into large wedges. Cut up the carrot roughly.
- 3
Cut the potatoes into bite-sized pieces. Shave off the cut edges to round them off, and put into a bowl of water.
- 4
Heat up a tablespoon of oil (not listed in ingredient list) in a pan over low heat, and stir-fry the beef. (Make sure the meat doesn't stick.)
- 5
Add the onion and carrot and keep on stir-frying.
- 6
Add the potatoes and shirataki and stir-fry so everything gets coated with oil.
- 7
Add the dashi stock. Turn the heat up to medium. When it comes to a boil skim off the scum, add the ● ingredients, drop a small lid right on top of the food and simmer over low heat for 20 minutes.
- 8
Add the soy sauce and simmer for another 10 minutes.
- 9
Transfer to serving plates. Take the strings off the snow peas and boil them in salted water. Finely julienne and scatter over the meat and potatoes. Add a bit of butter to add richness.
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