Nikujaga for the family

Hello, how are you??
Today I read the news about a Japanese politician giving a speech to object against two-name system. Married couples are not allowed to have two family names in Japan, so the current government is planing to change it. However, many conservative politicians are still against the idea. They said that the system would break the family relationship.

I personally think that having two names in a family is not a issue in the relationship. Other issues are killing the family system clearly, for example adults are pushed to work longer and kids are forced to study at cram schools till night time. It can be seen sometimes small kids eating fast-food on the train on the way to cram school. Naturally, they have no conversation at home.

So today I will introduce this typical homemade taste 'nikujaga'. It is simple, but it makes Japanese people feel home. 'Niku' means meat and 'jaga' means potato. Yes, nikujaga is a cooking of meat and potatoes!

Ingredients:
potato (4)
onion (1)
carrot (1)

meat (sliced or minced pork or beef)

soy sauce (2tbsp)
sugar (2tbsps)

sake (2tbsps)

salt
mirin -sweet rice wine (2tbsps)

1- Peel and cut potatoes, carrot and onion.

2- Stir fry the meat, potatoes, carrot and onion.

3- When the meat is cooked, add 2 cups of soup (any stock) and boil until the potatoes get soft.

4- Add sugar, mirin, salt and soy sauce and boil until less soup.

If you add boiled green peas in the end, it'll look nicer.

Itadakimasu.