Recipe: At Home Tempura

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Tempura. Tempura is a Japanese dish of battered and deep-fried vegetables and seafood. Common ingredients to fry are shrimp, squid, green bell pepper, eggplant, sweet potatoes, potatoes, kabocha, carrot, mushrooms, and shiso (perilla). Tempura is best served hot with salt or tempura dipping sauce and is often garnished with grated daikon radish.

Tempura is the best when you dip them in the delicious Tentsuyu (天つゆ) or Tempura Dipping Sauce.

The sauce itself is delicate but has all the sweet-savory flavor you need to accentuate the enjoyment of fresh, hot tempura.

For vegetables, try bell peppers, broccoli, eggplant, mushrooms, and sweet potatoes.

You can cook Tempura using 13 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Tempura

1. Prepare of Ingredients for batter.

2. Prepare 2 cups of flour.

3. It’s 1 of egg.

4. Prepare 1 tsp of baking soda.

5. It’s 2 tbs of corn flour.

6. It’s 200 ml of cold water.

7. It’s of Ingredients for vegetables and sea shellfish.

8. You need 4-5 of shrimps,.

9. Prepare 1 of eggplant, carrot, onion, broccoli cabbage, bell pepper, kale leaves.

10. You need to taste of salt - pepper.

11. It’s of Oil.

12. You need of Sweet chili sauce.

13. You need of soy sauce.

The batter can even be used to make onion rings.

Serve the tempura with your favorite dipping sauces and enjoy as an appetizer or light meal.

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Tempura is a method of deep-frying that provides a delicious coating for all kinds of foods.

Tempura step by step

1. Skin off eggplant and cut it into length wise. Skin off carrot and cut it into strips (not too thick) or whatever shape you prefer. Take seeds out of bell pepper and cut it into wide strips. Peel off onion and slice it. Cut broccoli into small pieces. Deshell prawns..

2. Whisk 1 cup flour with baking soda and corn flour. Crack egg into a bowl and beat it very well then add cold water and mix it..

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4. Put 1/2 egg and water into the flour mixture and blend it well. Then add remaining of the liquid to the flour and mix it very well. If mixture is lumpy, thats fine..

5. In a deep fry pan, pour oil over high heat. Then drop batter into the oil, if it is coming up, oil gets ready. Dip one of your vegetables into the batter, drain for 2-3 seconds in the bowl, and then add it to the hot oil. Fry 3-4 pieces at a time. Let each piece fry for 2-3 minutes (or until is crispy)..

6. Repeat dipping of vegetables and frying them..

7. For prawns, you need 1 cup dry flour as well. First dip prawns in flour mixture for 1-2 second then add it to dry flour. Add it to hot oil and let them fry for 2-3 minutes (longer than vegetables)..

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9. Serve tempura with sweet chili and soy sauce..

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If you've enjoyed tempura in Japanese restaurants, you know that the dish is an unforgettable treat.

Although tempura may seem exotic, it isn't difficult to make at home.

Nearly any food can be fried in tempura batter, including fish, squid, prawns, cauliflower, zucchini, broccoli, onion, carrot, cucumbers, or even chunks of fruit or squash.

Dip sweet potato, onion, bell pepper, green beans, and shiitake mushrooms one by one into the batter and transfer immediately into the hot oil.

Remove from oil and transfer to a plate lined with paper towels to drain excess oil.