also: にくジャガ
nikujaga; meat and potato stew
A classic Japanese home-style dish of simmered meat (usually beef), potatoes, and vegetables in a sweet-savory soy-based broth.
Let's have nikujaga for dinner tonight.
My mother's nikujaga is the best.
Standard kanji-kana mixed spelling.
Variant with katakana for the potato part; less common but seen in casual writing.
Compound of 肉 (niku, 'meat') and じゃが (jaga, short for じゃがいも, 'potato'). The dish is said to have been invented in the Imperial Japanese Navy, inspired by British beef stew.