How to Make Quick Japanese Beef Potatoes

Japanese Beef Potatoes. Literally Nikujaga means meat and potatoes. Niku is meat and jaga is the short form of Jagaimo, which means potatoes. Basically the meat and potatoes are stewed in soy sauce which has been sweetened with mirin and sugar.

The Japanese navy chefs were ordered to create a version of beef stew that the British Royal Navy were eating! Nikujaga quite literally translates to "meat and potatoes" - niku means "meat" and jaga means "potatoes" in Japanese. It's a comfort food and the Japanese version of beef stew.

Hello everybody, hope you're having an incredible day today. Today, we're going to prepare a special dish, japanese beef potatoes. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Literally Nikujaga means meat and potatoes. Niku is meat and jaga is the short form of Jagaimo, which means potatoes. Basically the meat and potatoes are stewed in soy sauce which has been sweetened with mirin and sugar.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook japanese beef potatoes using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Japanese Beef Potatoes:

1. {Prepare 500 g of Beef.
2. {Take 3 of onion.
3. {Prepare 5 of small potatoes.
4. {Prepare 5 of dried mushrooms.
5. {Get 100 ml of Japanese Sake.
6. {Make ready 100 ml of soy sauce.
7. {Prepare 2.5 tablespoon of sugar.
8. {Prepare 1 of small ginger.
9. {Take 1 cup of mushroom soak water.

The beef in Nikujaga is added more for flavor than substance. In a medium saucepan, heat the oil over medium-high heat until it shimmers. I loved the meat with the potatoes and onion. I wasn't able to find the dashi or sake so I used low sodium beef broth and dry white cooking wine instead and I forgot to add the peas.

Instructions to make Japanese Beef Potatoes:

1. Cut beef and soak mushrooms. I always use Shiitake mushrooms..
2. Fry beef till the surface good color.
3. Cook in pressure pan with Japanese Sake and half cup of water till beef softened. This time I cook 15min. If you don’t have Sake please use water..
4. Cut vegetables.
5. Open the lid and put seasoning and 1 cup of mushrooms soak water..
6. Cook more 5 minutes in pressure pan.
7. Garnish with green onion.
8. Today’s dinner.

It was very good if a bit salty (but that's from the soy sauce and the cooking wine that I didn't notice was loaded in salt until afterwards. Remove the beef from the pan, cover the beef and set aside. Return the stock to the boil and skim off any foamy scum that rises to the surface. Add the potato and carrot and cover with a drop lid or baking paper cartouche. Nikujaga is literally meat (niku) and potatoes (jagaimo) in Japanese.

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