Do you like crispy tempura? Tempura is deep fried vegetable or seafood, which is commonly eaten in Japan. If you know some tips, it's not so hard to make delicious tempura at home. All ingredients can be found easily at your local grocery stores. Actually, you can make tempura with almost anything.
Basic Steps for Cooking Tempura:
- Prepare the ingredients.
- Make tempura batter.
- Heat vegetable oil in a deep pan to 340-350F degree.
- Lightly dip ingredients in the batter and immediately fry them until crisp. It takes longer to fry vegetables than to fry seafood.
- Drain tempura on a rack.
- Serve right away with tentsuyu (tempura dipping sauce) or salt. Tempura is best served hot. *Grated daikon radish is a common condiment.
How to Make Tempura Shrimp
Tips for Making Crispy Tempura
Common Ingredients for Tempura:
shrimp / squid / green bell pepper /
eggplant / satsumaimo (sweet potatoes) / potatoes / kabocha / carrot / shiitake mushrooms /
renkon (lotus roots)
Tempura Variations:
- Kakiage (Mixed Tempura) Recipe
- Tendon (Tempura Rice Bowl) Recipe
- Tempura Udon / Tempura Soba
Udon noodles or soba noodles served in hot soup with tempura toppings.
