Last week, I was cooking my son's favourite dish, Japanese Beef Stew. I brought the mix from the supermarket which I cannot remember exactly which supermarket. The steps I used is a bit different from the box. The amount of food to put inside is also varies.
Ingredients:
A packet of Japanese Beef Stew mix
500 grams of beef stew pieces
200 grams of beef mince
2 medium sized carrots
1 large brown onions
1 litres of water (I used only about 800 - 850 ml for thicker sauce)
Methods:
1) Wash all the ingredients
2) Cut the brown onion into slices
3) Cut the carrots into big chunks
4) Use a thick base pot to cook the stew as you need to stir fry the ingredients first.
5) Put about 1 teaspoon of oil into the pot to heat it up
6) Put onions in and stir fry till translucent
7) Put the carrots in once the onions is cooked
8) Once the carrots are in for about 5 - 10 minutes of stir frying, put in the beef pieces and mince
9) When the beef is half done, put in the water and bring up to boil on high fire
10) Once the water is boiled, turn the fire down to medium fire and add in the stew mix
11) Stir the stew till the mix is completely dissolved
12) When it is done, cover the pot and turn the fire to low and simmer for 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Depends on how soft you want the meat to be, you adjust the timing. Please remember to give the stew a stir once in a while if not it will burned at the bottom of the pot.
13) People who have pressure cooker can do it faster than the normal pot. You can use the pressure cooker to cook the stew for about 30 - 40 minutes.
Enjoy cooking!!!
