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Japanese Ground Beef Curry

NYT Cooking's family-favorite weeknight curry from Amelia Rampe � ground beef browned with onion, garlic, and ginger, simmered with carrots, potatoes, and Japanese curry roux into a rich, comforting stew served over rice.

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp sunflower or canola oil
  • 1 lb ground beef
  • Salt and pepper
  • 1 large yellow onion chopped
  • 1 large garlic clove minced
  • 1-inch piece fresh ginger peeled and minced
  • 1 large carrot peeled and chopped
  • 1 large russet potato peeled and chopped
  • 1 package Japanese curry roux bricks 3.2 oz
  • 3/4 cup frozen peas
  • Cooked rice udon or lo mein noodles for serving

Instructions

  1. Heat a large skillet over medium-high. Add oil then ground beef with salt and pepper. Break up beef and spread into one layer cook undisturbed until browned on bottom about 3 minutes.
  2. Stir and push beef to one side. Add onion to the other side season lightly with salt. Cook stirring occasionally about 2 minutes. Add garlic and ginger stir to combine and cook 3 minutes more.
  3. Stir in carrots and potato cook until edges soften about 4 minutes.
  4. Add curry roux bricks and 2 cups water. Stir breaking up bricks until they melt into a sauce and start bubbling. Cover lower heat and simmer stirring occasionally until sauce is rich and viscous about 15 minutes. Add water if needed.
  5. Add peas and cook until bright green 3-5 minutes. Serve over rice udon or noodles.
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