Tempura Recipe
Battered and deep-fried shrimp and vegetables with savory dipping sauce
Equipment
Ingredients
- 4 shrimp
- 4 slices kabocha squash
- 4 slices sweet potato
- 4 slices eggplant
- 6 green beans
- 3/4 cup cake flour ( )
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup water with 3-4 ice cubes
- oil ( for deep frying)
- Mentsuyu
Instructions
- Cut vegetables into 1/4" thick slices. Make diagonal cuts on shrimp to help straighten.
- Put cake flour, baking powder, salt in a medium bowl and whisk well.
- Add ice water into flour mixture and stir with chopsticks (not whisk) about 10 times. It's OK to have a lot of lumps in batter.
- Heat oil to very high temperature (375F). Dip vegetables and shrimp in batter, and deep fry until they float and are cooked through.