"Nikujaga"

Editor: Mariko

It is said that "Nikujaga" is a typical Mama's recipe.

To avoid to fall apart potatoes while cooking, please soak potatoes in water before you start cooking.

Ingredients (for 2 servings)

2 Potatoes, 1 Onion, 150g thinly sliced Beef (or pork)
1&1/2 tablespoons salad oil, 3/4 - 1 cup water
2 tablespoons Sugar, 2 tablespoons Sake, 1 tablespoon Mirin, 2 tablespoons Soy sauce

Preparation
POTATO	Peel potatoes and hollow its germ out. Cut the potato in half, and cut the potatoes in halves. Soak them in water for 5 minutes and drain the potatoes.
ONION	Cut in half lengthwise first, and cut them into quarters.
MEAT (BEEF OR PORK)	Cut into bite size pieces.

Cooking
1	Pour salad oil in a heated pot, fry meat, and add potatoes and onion after the color of meat changed.
2	Pour water into a pot to cover the ingredients. Make some holes in thin foil and put it on. Boil them at high heat first.
3	Remove the harshness and boil for 3-4 minutes at low heat.
4	Add sugar and sake, boil it for 4-5 minutes to season sweet taste.
5	Put mirin and soy sauce, boil it until the quantity of broth become 1/3.
6	Turn off the heat, place a small lid directly on the food.
7	2-3 minutes later, dish up the meal.

Mariko's
Recommendation:

Regarding the order of adding seasoning, please put "sugar" at first, in order to be infriliated the taste well.
This is a basic point of Japanese food recipe.

In spite of sliced meat, minced meat is also good to make tasty Nikujaga.

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