Metric:
Sweet potato
Kabocha pumpkin
Eggplant
Shrimp
Green Beans
180ml Water
( with 3-4 ice cubes )
95gr Cake Flour
5gr Baking Powder
2gr Salt
Oil
( for deep frying )
Mentsuyu
TRADITIONAL JAPANESE RECIPE: Tempura (天ぷらor天麩羅 ) is one of the most famous Japanese foods outside Japan. It is battered and deep fried seafood and vegetables. Tempura can be as formal as you want it to be at very expensive Tempura specialty restaurants in Japan, or casual home cooking.
Tempura is actually a classical Portuguese dish brought to and popularized by Japan.
Outside Japan (as well as recently in Japan), there are many nontraditional and fusion uses of tempura. Chefs over the world include tempura dishes on their menus, and a wide variety of different batters and ingredients are used, including the nontraditional broccoli, zucchini, asparagus and chuchu. More unusual ingredients may include nori slices, dry fruit such as banana, and ice cream (tempura-based fried ice cream). American restaurants are known to serve tempura in the form of various meats, particularly chicken, and cheeses, usually mozzarella. A variation is to use panko (breadcrumbs), which results in a crisper consistency than tempura batter. Using panko in Japan would no longer qualify the dish as tempura. It would become something else called fry or pronounced in Japanese as furai. Tempura (particularly shrimp) is often used as a filling in makizushi. A more recent variation of tempura sushi has entire pieces of sushi being dipped in batter and tempura-fried.
In Bangladesh the blossoms of pumpkins or marrows are often deep fried with a gram of rice flour spice mix creating a Bengali style tempura known as kumro ful bhaja.
Skill Level:  |
Time: 45 Minutes |
Price:  |
Serves: 4 People |
Ingredients:
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Directions:
01 - Cut the vegetables into 1cm ( 1/4 of an inch ) thick slices.
02 - Make diagonal cuts on the Shrimp to help straighten.
03 - Put Cake Flour, Baking Powder and Salt in a medium bowl and whisk well to combine.
04 - Add Ice Water into the Flour mixture and stir with chopsticks ( not whisk ) about 10 times. ( It's OK to have a lot of lumps in batter )
05 - Heat the Oil to a very high temperature ( 190C / 375F ).
06 - Dip Vegetables and Shrimp in the Batter, and deep fry until they float and are cooked through.
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