Japanese Curry Rice カレーライス
The easy Japanese curry recipe with step by step photo instructions and video. Japanese curry is the ever popular kids friendly delicious curry. Japanese curry are so versatile. You can make it with any protein source you like such as chicken, beef, pork and seafood. Als,o Japanese curry can be adopted into different dishes such as Udon and Bread.
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 20 min
- Yield
- 6 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 2/3 cups Uncooked rice - Follow the instructions on your rice cooker. *1
- 1/2 a large packet of Curry Roux *2
- 9 oz your preferred protein *3
- 1 brown onion
- 1 large potato (*4)
- 1 carrot (*5)
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 2 cloves of garlic
- ¼ cup grated apple
- 1 tbsp honey
- Pinch of salt and pepper to taste
- 2 cups water approximately 500 ml
- Fukushinduke and/or Rakkyo to accompany condiments *6 (optional)
- Worcestershire sauce (optional)
Instructions
- 1
Start to cook rice. *7
- 2
Cut the meat into bite size pieces and set aside
- 3
Peel and cut the potatoes, carrot, and onion into large bite size pieces and set aside.
- 4
Peel and slice the garlic.
- 5
Heat olive oil in a pot over medium heat and add garlic
- 6
When the garlic is fragrant, add the onion to cook.
- 7
Add the chicken to cook and when they change into whitish colour, add potato, carrot, and onion and stir with a wooden spatula.
- 8
When the oil has coated evenly on all the ingredients and the outer-edge of the potatoes have become transparent, add the water, honey, and grated apple.
- 9
Bring it to boil and then turn the heat down to low to simmer until the potatoes become soft. and all the other ingredients are cooked. (Takes about 15 minutes)
- 10
Turn the heat off, break the curry sauce blocks apart and add to the pot.
- 11
Make each piece of curry roux dissolve into the cooking water in ladle with a pair of chopsticks *8
- 12
Turn the heat back on low and bring to simmer to thicken the sauce.
- 13
Serve cooked plain rice in a shallow bowl and pour the curry over the rice.
- 14
Garnish with Fukushinduke and Rakkyo if you like. *Optional