Japanese Curry Rice with Beef


Ingredient
Beef
Freshly ground black pepper(optional)
2 onions
1-2 potatoes
2 cloves garlic
1½ Tbsp neutral flavor oil
4 cups of water
1 apple
1 box Japanese curry roux

Steps
1.     Gather all the ingredients
2.     Cut the beef into bite-size pieces
3.     Cut the onions in wedges
4.     Peel and cut the potatoes in bite-size chunks, soak in water for 15 minutes to remove extra starch
5.     Crush the garlic cloves
6.     Cut the apple into small chunks, the same size as potatoes
7.     Put 1½ Tbsp neutral flavor oil in a big pot and heat it up
8.     Add onion wedges and crushed garlic into the pot and sauté the onions
9.     Add beef into the pot, stir fry the pot until the beef changes color
10.  Add potatoes into the pot and keep mixing
11.  Put 4 cups of water into the pot
12.  Wait until the water is boiling, remove the fat and scrum from the surface, and add the curry roux
13.  Add apple chunks into the pot
14.  Braise everything in the pot for 40 minutes
15.  After braising for40 minutes, the potatoes and beef should be very soft
16.  Add black pepper and mix in the pot if prefer (I did)
17.  Serve with steamed white rice on a plate

Reflection
Japanese Curry is my favorite among all of the curry options. There are other curry styles in different Asian countries, Indian Curry, Thai Curry, Japanese Curry, etc. But Japanese is my favorite because the taste is smoother, sweeter, and less spicy. Making curry is also a fun thing to do, also very easy. I have learned how to make Japanese style curry since I was 12 years old. I did forget to buy carrots this time, usually, I do put carrots in my curry to meet the daily nutrition need of vitamin B. But I did add an apple into the curry, which is a thing that I usually do not do. I add an apple this time because I wanted the curry to taste sweeter. The curry tastes wonderful with steamed rice.




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