potatoes & ground meat with sticky sauce

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ingredients:

• 240 g potatoes
• 200 g ground pork or chicken
• 2 teaspoons grated ginger
• 3 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 480 ml water
• 2 tablespoons potato starch (katakuriko)
• 2 tablespoons water (for dissolving potato starch)

step 1:

Peel the potatoes; cut them into 4 to 6 cubes.

step 2:

Place the water in a pot. Add the potatoes, ground meat, grated ginger, sugar and soy sauce. Simmer for about 30 minutes on medium-low heat until the potatoes become soft.

step 3:

Dissolve the potato starch in the 2 tablespoons of water. Add the dissolved potato starch to the pot. Stir a few times until it becomes creamy.