tempura

  • Serves: 4
  • Calories: 634 kcal
  • Total Time: 40 m
    • Prep: 15 m
    • Cook: 25 m
  • Japanese: Tempura
Tempura
ingredients

ingredients:

  • 8 shrimps
  • 120 g pumpkin
  • 2 green peppers
  • 1 potato
  • 1 sweet potato
  • salad oil
  • a little flour

coating:

  • 1 egg
  • 130 ml cold water
  • 65 g flour

dipping sauce:

step1

step 1:

Hull shell and devein the shrimp.

step2

step 2:

Make a cut in the stomach side. Cut off the tip of the tail diagonally.

step3

step 3:

Peel the potato and cut into 0.5 cm. slices. Cut the unpeeled sweet potato into 0.5 cm. slices.

step4

step 4:

Slice the unpeeled pumpkin.

step5

step 5:

Cut the green peppers in half lengthwise. Remove seeds.

step6

step 6:

To make coating, mix the egg and cold water in a bowl. Add the flour and toss.

step7

step 7:

Dust all the ingredients lightly with a little flour before applying the coating.

step8

step 8:

With chopsticks, dip the potatoes and the pumpkin into the coating and twirl them around to coat them. Fill a wok over half fill with salad oil and heat until 170 °C.

step9

step 9:

Drop the coated pieces into the wok and deep fry, turning them with chopsticks or tongs after several minutes. Fry another minutes or two until they are soft.

step10

step 10:

Follow the same procedure for the green pepper and shrimp, but cook for a shorter period of time until they are a light gold.

step11

step 11:

To make dipping sauce, mix bonito soup stock, soy sauce and sugar together in a pan and bring to a boil.

Tempura

comment:

Dip the pieces into either the dipping sauce or just salt.

Typical Meals – Tempura