Japanese Beef Curry Recipe with Tomatoes

This Japanese beef curry recipe will teach you how to cook an easy dish that has amazing versatility and is always delicious. Kids love it, and moms love making it because it is so easy. It is a staple of Japanese households. ANYTHING can go in Japanese curry. Seafood, beef, chicken, pork, vegetables, everything tastes good. It’s a great way to clean up little bits and pieces of food you have left over in your fridge.

Japanese curry is different than other Asian curry. Thai and Indian curry is much spicier than Japanese curry. Japanese curry is sweeter and always served with rice. There are three different levels of spiciness; mild, medium hot, or hot, but they do not compare with the spiciness of Thai or Indian curry. Japanese curry is much milder, and sweeter than other curry. This is probably why kids love it so much!

Typically, curry consists of onions, carrots, potatoes and beef. This combination is served alongside rice all across Japan, both in homes and in restaurants. This Japanese beef curry recipe will teach you this classic recipe with a slight twist by adding diced tomatoes. The curry roux that I used it shown below. It is a medium-hot Vermont Curry roux and one that I most often use. Other types can also be substituted instead of the Vermont Curry.

Tips for Japanese Beef Curry

• Japanese curry is a great way to encourage your kids to eat lots of vegetables that they might not normally eat.
• Japanese curry is very versatile. You can make seafood curry by adding seafood, or make chicken curry by adding chicken. The possibilities are endless, vegetables, pork etc.
• You can make the curry using the instructions on the box, but if you add the diced tomatoes, it creates a different flavor and is a delicious variation that I demonstrate in this recipe.
• Beef curry is delicious right after cooking, but it is even more delicious as leftovers the following day.

Japanese Beef Curry with Tomatoes

Japanese curry is one of the most common dishes cooked in a Japanese home because it is easy to make, easy to adjust based on available ingredients and loved by kids. In this recipe we used Japanese roux enhanced with diced tomato to create a unique flavor.

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Total Time 45 minutes mins

Course Main Course

Cuisine Japanese

Ingredients

  

• 2 Potatoes
• 1 Carrot
• 2 Onions
• 1 tsp Vegetable Oil
• 1 tsp Grated Garlic
• 250 grams Cut Beef
• 2 bundles Spinach
• 550 grams Canned Diced Tomato
• 1.5 cups Water
• 2 Bay leafs
• 100 grams Curry Roux

Instructions

 

• Slice the potatoes, carrots, and onions into bite sized pieces
• Cut the beef into bite sized chunks
• Add vegetable oil to a pan on the stove and heat
• Add the grated garlic, beef, potatoes, carrots, and onions into the pan
• Stir on medium heat until the color of the onions changes
• Add the 2 bundles of spinach into a bowl of hot water for 5 minutes
• Afterwards, remove the spinach from the water and slice into bite-sized pieces
• After the onions have changed color, add a can of diced tomatoes and 1.5 cups of water into the pan
• Add 2 bay leaves into the pan, cover, and allow to simmer for 5 minutes
• Remove any lye that may accumulate in the pan and also remove the bay leaves
• Add 100 grams of Japanese curry roux (or any roux) into the pan, cover and simmer for another 5 minutes
• Add the sliced spinach and mix everything
• When the curry roux is completely dissolved, the dish is finish. Enjoy!

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Keyword Carrot, Curry, Easy Recipe, Potato