🇯🇵 Japan recipe
Tempura
Shrimp and seasonal vegetables dipped in an ice-cold batter and fried to an ethereally light, shatteringly crispy golden coating. Authentic Japanese tempura is about restraint and technique, producing a delicate lace-like crust that never feels heavy.
Prep20 mins
Cook20 mins
Serves4
Difficultymedium
Ingredients
- 8 large shell-on shrimp, peeled and deveined with tails intact
- 1 sweet potato, peeled and sliced into 5 mm rounds
- 1 Japanese eggplant, halved lengthwise and scored
- 1 lotus root, peeled and sliced into 5 mm rounds
- 6 shiso leaves
- 4 shiitake mushrooms, stems removed
- 1 cup cake flour (or all-purpose flour sifted twice)
- 1 large egg yolk
- 1 cup ice-cold sparkling water
- Vegetable oil for deep frying
- 1 cup dashi stock (for tentsuyu dipping sauce)
- 3 tbsp mirin (for tentsuyu)
- 3 tbsp soy sauce (for tentsuyu)
- Grated daikon radish for serving
- Grated fresh ginger for serving
Method
10 step-by-step instructions with timers and hands-free Cook Mode narration, in the OriginEats app.
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Nutrition per serving
- Calories
- 350
- Protein
- 16 g
- Carbs
- 30 g
- Fat
- 18 g
