Japanese•indulgent
Tempura
Battered and deep-fried shrimp and vegetables with savory dipping sauce
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 15 min
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 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
- 1
Cut vegetables into 1/4" thick slices. Make diagonal cuts on shrimp to help straighten.
- 2
Put cake flour, baking powder, salt in a medium bowl and whisk well.
- 3
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.
- 4
Heat oil to very high temperature (375F). Dip vegetables and shrimp in batter, and deep fry until they float and are cooked through.