Japanese Nikujaga (Sliced pork and Potatoes)
Japanese Nikujaga (Sliced pork and Potatoes)

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Nikujaga (Japanese: 肉じゃが) literally means "meat and potatoes", from two of the main ingredients niku (meat) and jagaimo (potatoes). Here's Nikujaga with thinly sliced pork belly. Don't want to miss a recipe?

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook japanese nikujaga (sliced pork and potatoes) using 11 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Japanese Nikujaga (Sliced pork and Potatoes):
  1. Get Potatoes
  2. Make ready Sliced Pork (or Silced Beef)
  3. Get peice Onion
  4. Make ready peices Carrot (If you buy Japanese carrot, it's OK 1 peice)
  5. Take salad oil
  6. Make ready <Sauce>
  7. Take Water
  8. Get Suger
  9. Prepare Sake(cooking rice wine)
  10. Prepare Mirin
  11. Make ready Soy Sauce

Nikujaga (肉じゃが, meaning meat-potato) is a Japanese dish of meat, potatoes and onion stewed in sweetened soy sauce and mirin, sometimes with ito konnyaku and vegetables. Generally, potatoes make up the bulk of the dish, with meat mostly serving as a source of flavor. Potatoes used in Nikujaga are anything you like. If you like soft and fluffy, use Russet potatoes.

Steps to make Japanese Nikujaga (Sliced pork and Potatoes):
  1. Cut the potatoes into bite-size pieces, soak them in water and drain.
  2. Peel the first 2 layers off the halved onion and cut into 7 to 8 mm wedges. Cut the carrot into small bite-size pieces.
  3. Cut the sliced pork 5 to 6 cm.
  4. Heat te salad oil and add the potatoes. When the potato eadges become transparent, add the onios and carrots. Give the oil time to absorb the flavor, and then add the pork.
  5. When the meat begins to chane color, sprinkle the 2 tbsp Sake and add 150 ml Water. Turn the heat to high.
  6. When it boils, turn the heat to medium and carefully reomove the scum. Add the 2 tbsp Suger, 3 tbsp Mirin and 5 tbsp Soy Sauce in thar order, and stir once.
  7. Put in a drop lid and cover with the frying pan lid. Simmer and stir occasionally for 15 miniutes until liquid is almost gone.
  8. Natire’s Nest Brastagi Potatoes Granola (Washed) SG$3.2/kg at FairPrice
  9. Tradition Shabu Shabu - Pork Belly (Frozen) SG$5.8/400g at Foodie Market
  10. Chef Yellow Onion - Large SG$1.45/700g at FairPrice
  11. Pasar Prepacked Carrotes SG$0.9/500g at FairPrice
  12. Japanese White Suger SG$3.5/kg at DonDon Donki
  13. Sake- Cooking Rice Wine SG$5~7/500ml at RedMart, Sakuraya, Dondon DONKI etc
  14. Hinode Hon Mirin SG$4.6/320ml at RedMart
  15. Soy Sauce - High recommend this soy sauce which is named Yamasa Konbutsuyu - SG$7~9/L at Dondon Donki, Mid Town Mart etc

Some parts of Japan use pork for Nikujaga, I hear. When beef was more precious back then We use thinly sliced beef for a lot of different dishes in Japan. If you go to Japanese grocery stores, you. Nikujaga, or meat and potatoes is an easy comforting Japanese stew made with beef, potatoes and carrots. My quick Nikujaga recipe comes together in under My version of this Japanese comfort food is loaded with melt-in-your-mouth tender slices of beef simmered together with sweet onions, and big.

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