How to cook: Simmered Meat and Potatoes

Simmered Meat and Potatoes

This is a Japanese food. (called 'Niku-Jaga' in Japanese)

It is not so difficult to cook, but if a girl can cook this well, she can make her boyfriend hallucinate that she is good at cooking!

Ingredients (Serve 3-4)

• 100g minced pork
• 1 big onion
• 3 potatoes
• 1 small carrot
• 2 tbs sugar
• 4 tbs sake
• 4 tbs soy sauce
• 2 tbs mirin
• 2 cups dasi

Recipe

1. Peel the potatoes and the carrot, and cut each into bite-size. Soak them in water and drain. Peel the onion and cut them into eight half moon-shaped pieces.
2. Heat 1/2 tbsp of salad oil over a moderate fire. Add the potatoes and carrots, and fry well. Add minced pork, then the onions and fry them together until the potatoes are transparent.
3. Add sugar, sake, soy sauce, mirin and dashi. Simmer until the potatoes are soft. Skin the surface of the broth occasionally. Turn off the heat and leave.

*tbsp= table spoon

*mirin is a Japanese seasoner made from rice

*dashi is a Japanese stock made from a skipjack tuna