Life as Foreigner Working in Japan: FOOD PORN - 33

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Ok, I have wanted to make something like beef sauce pasta for a while now. It was just yesterday that I actually have an urge to do it. Why? Because it consume so much time in cooking and also so much spice goes into it. Without those spices, this beef sauce pasta will not be good at all. Really.

So what I created yesterday was a type of Beef stew call,

Beef Goulash Pasta ビーフグーラッシュパスタ

I do not have all the spice required to make it, so this is just what I actually used.

Fresh pasta

Vegetable Oil

Beef block that is already cut, you buy it and cut yourselves

Onions 2 ea

Olive oil

Salt

Bay Leaf (just 1 is enough

Stock! You can use Beef or Chicken Stock for this one. I used a beef stock cube 2ea for it

Tomato paste

Garlic

Sugar

Balsamic vinegar

*Main Spice*

Caraway seeds, you can ground it

Paprika powder (I used smoked Paprika powder)

Black pepper

Cayenne

Dried thyme leaves

Looks like a lot.. right??? The process of this thing is rather easy but the preparation is painful. That is why I do not do it until now. I decided to just.. shop for once!

Start with preparing garlic and onions, chop them out. Then prepare your meat. My meat is already cut and spice, so meh. If your meat is not spice, add in some salt and black pepper before cooking.

Set up your pan with normal oil. Then cook the beef first, make sure that it is cooked. (it will taste better when you put in the stock).

After finishing it, put the beef in the pot, normal cooking pot is fine.

Here is the thing about this dish, do not wash the pan, ever. We will be using the same pan, over and over again because the smell of the meat and everything is in it.

Cook the onions and add in olive oil in the same pan until it looks almost cooked (the mid is still white but surrounding looks a bit brown or transparent) The color should be brown from the beef previously.

Put those onions in the same pot with the beef. Do not worry about the oils, just dump them in.

Lastly! In the same pan, toast these spice on it, careful of the heat though. Do not make it too cooked or burn it.

Caraway seeds, ground it

Paprika powder

Black pepper

Cayenne

Dried thyme leaves

Mix them all in the pan until it looks pretty good, or smell good.

Then add in the beef stock to the spice, this way, all the beef, onions, and spices will mix together. The color will appear a bit red from paprika powder, that is a right one.

Add the stock into the beef pot then start the heat. You are now done with the pan.

Next, in the pot, add in tomato paste/sauce (I do not have paste, so I used sauce), garlic, Bay Leaf, Salt and the rest of the stock if you still have some left.

Start heating the pot with strong heat until the stock is start boiling. Then lower it down to low heat. Wait for around 1.5 hours to 2 hours.

Check it time to time for the soup. The complete version should have some soup left in it. If the water got too low, it will burn your pot, be careful (I almost burnt my pot) Add in some water if needed.