Comforting Nikujaga - Simmered Meat and Potatoes

Name: Comforting Nikujaga - Simmered Meat and Potatoes
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 small bag Shirataki noodles; 1 Onion; 1/2 Carrot; 3 Potatoes; 200 grams Thinly sliced beef offcuts; 300 ml Dashi stock (or water + 2 teaspoons of dashi stock granules); 2 tbsp ● Sake; 2 tbsp ● Mirin; 3 tbsp ● Sugar (or soft-light brown sugar); 3 tbsp Soy sauce; 10 Snow peas; 1 tiny bit Butter (optional)

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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

We had some really delicious nikujaga at an izakaya (Japanese gastropub). I tried to recreate that flavor.

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

We had some really delicious nikujaga at an izakaya (Japanese gastropub). I tried to recreate that flavor.

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Ingredients

4 servings

1 smallbag Shirataki noodles
1Onion
1/2Carrot
3Potatoes
200 gramsThinly sliced beef offcuts
300 mlDashi stock (or water + 2 teaspoons of dashi stock granules)
2 tbsp● Sake
2 tbsp● Mirin
3 tbsp● Sugar (or soft-light brown sugar)
3 tbspSoy sauce
10Snow peas
1tiny bit Butter (optional)

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Steps

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.