Description: Japanese comfort dish. One of the most popular homemade slow cook foods in Japan. You may cook a large amount and freeze them or eat it over the next few days. Beef is the most common, but pork or chicken can be used.
Serves: 4
Cooking time: 20 minutes

Ingredients

• Beef (sirloin, alternatively rib-eye or any other part) – cut in bite size, 150g
• Onion – chopped, 2 or 300g
• Baby potatoes – 10 pieces or 250g
• Soy sauce – 1 ¼ tablespoon
• Sake cooking wine – ½ tablespoon
• Mirin cooking wine – ½ tablespoon
• Water – 200 mL

Method

1. In a non-stick pan, fry the beef and onions for a few minutes over medium heat.
2. Add the soy sauce, sake, mirin and water to the pan, and cook over low to medium heat for 15 minutes.

Nutritional Values Per Serving

Kcal	Protein	Fat	Carbs	Fibre	Sugars	Salt	Saturated Fat
164.0	10.6g	4.9g	19.0g	1.9g	3.8g	0.8g	2.0g
8.2%	21.1%	7.0%	7.3%	6.3%	4.2%	13.6%	9.8%

Nutritional Tips

Stewed Meat & Potatoes, which is known as Nikujaga (肉じゃが) is one of the Japanese traditional dishes. In general, potatoes are the main ingredient of the dish and meats are mostly used to add flavour to the dish. Thinly sliced beef is the probably most common and popular meat to use for this dish, but minced beef and other meats (chicken or pork) can also be used. Ingredients vary and depend on the family or the area. Some use green beans, carrots, konnyaku, tofu or spring onions as well. My grandmother simply used beef and onions, so I would like to introduce my grandmother’s recipe here today. It is simple but full of flavour, so it matches perfectly with a bowl of rice and miso soup. This may help homesickness for some Japanese people living abroad. I will introduce some other recipes at another time.

It is often considered a homemade and “mother’s taste” dish in Japan (ofukuro no aji: おふくろの味). Each household has a slightly different recipe in which the main ingredients are meat (beef, pork or chicken) and potatoes, but other ingredients can be added such as carrot, konnyaku, green beans, spring onions, tofu or peas. The food itself is very simple. It is one of the most popular and well-known nimono (煮物 Japanese stewed dishes) dishes in Japan.