tempura is a recipe where veggies or meat is fried with a special batter.Ingredients:
[Koromo (batter)]
Using cold water (about 40F) is a must. This keeps the batter from becoming sticky. When you add the flour, whisk quickly just to mix it in evenly. Sticky batter results in oily tempura.
* 1 egg, beaten
* 1 cup COLD water
* 2 tablespoons dry white wine (or substitute water)
* 1 cup flour
Beat the egg and mix with water. Add flour and whisk quickly.
I make this all the time with chicken
2006-08-18 00:42:16
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answered by Chrissy C 3
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Tempura is lightly battered ingredients.
It's not the healthiest item on the Japanese menu, however it is much healthier than western fried alternatives.
For an example you can have tempura vegetables, tempura shrimps/prawns, tempura fish etc.
The batter can be made of potato starch powder, or flour, and an egg, then shallow fried. Some other things can sometimes be added to the batter, depending on what is available.
Often the finished product is dipped in a special tempura sauce, but again if that is not available, a soy sauce alternative is just as great.
2006-08-18 00:44:31
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answered by kara_nari 4
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Tenpura is just food that's been deep fried in tenpura batter. You can buy the batter flour from most shops these days, just follow the instructions and use it to coat whatever you like..!
Literally, almost ANYTHING can be used for tenpura - they prepared tenpura of watermelon skin on TV the other day, and a bunch of elementary school kids sampled it and said it was delicious..!!
Generally, prawns work well, so do bits of squid, most vegetables - though the ones that take longer to cook, pumpkin, potato etc. will need to be cut more thinly. I had Ten-don yesterday, a big bowl of rice, with tenpura on top - a big prawn, squid roll, green beans (the longish green beans that are round if you cut them across,) Japanese pumpkin, and a small filleted fish! Very nice, but I can't tell you what it was that YOU ate at that restaurant I'm afraid...!
By the way, here in Japan I've never heard of anyone using wine in their tenpura batter - or eggs! That doesn't mean that no-one uses them, it's just that it's not routine. Putting eggs in it would make it taste wrong! It would probably end up tasting like you were eating British fish and chips...!
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2006-08-18 20:53:35
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answered by _ 6
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Tempura is fresh fish, shellfish or vegetables dipped in a batter (koromo) of flour mixed with egg & water and then deep-fried. Tempura is best eaten immediately after frying dipped in a special tempura dipping sauce called tentsuyu & grated radish. The sauce is a mixture of soy sauce, dashi (stock) & mirin (sweet sake). Sometimes, Tempura is eaten simply with lemon juice & salt.
Foods that can be used as ingredients for Tempura include low-fat fish such as anago (conger eel), ika (squid), kisu (smelt), shirauo (a kind of whitebait fish), shrimps and shellfish like scallops. Vegetables used include mushrooms, lotus root, eggplant, squash, sweet potatoes, beefsteak plant or perilla (shiso) & green peppers.
Tempura can also be served on top of a bowl of rice. This is called Tendon. They are also served on top of noodles called Tempura soba or Tempura udon.
HERE'S A RECIPE:
BATTER:
1 cup flour (sifted)
1 egg and enough iced water to make 1 cup
Note: As I mentioned earlier, some tempura flours do not need egg added in them. Pls. read instructions on labels.
DIPPING SAUCE: (Tentsuyu)
1 cup water
1/2 tsp dashinomoto, (fish stock in freeze-dried granular form)
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup mirin (sweet sake)
Note: Instant tentsuyu sauces are available, too. Some of them have to be added with equal amounts of water. Some of them don't. Read instructions on labels.
CONDIMENTS:
1/2 cup grated radish
1 tbsp freshly grated ginger
Have fun cooking Tempura! Bon appetit!
2006-08-18 02:34:25
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answered by Anonymous
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Japaneese Food is Amazing .. i Love Green Tea Ice Cream !!
Tempura Rockssssssssss ....But Sorry i Dont Know What its Made of ! :D ..
Thanks For Asking Nice Question
2006-08-18 05:25:12
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answered by Unique !! 3
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TEMPURA BATTER
1/3 cup ice water
1/4 cup cornstarch
1 egg yolk
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon white sugar
1 teaspoon shortening
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
In a medium bowl, mix together all ingredients. Dip food in batter then fry in oil.
2006-08-18 04:40:05
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answered by Sugar Pie 7
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Tempura is a very thin batter like substance that usually consists of just water and rice flour or water and regular flour. Dip and fry.
2006-08-18 00:47:00
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answered by ? 6
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Tempura is a selection of meat or vegtable dipped in a batter and fry and served hot
2006-08-18 00:43:51
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answered by ozi_nut 5
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Tempura is the style of cooking not anything in and of itself.
It is made by mixing rice flour with seltzer water and deep frying.
2006-08-18 02:29:57
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answered by kevin r 3
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Tempura is fresh fish, shellfish or vegetables dipped in a batter of flour, mixed with egg and water and then deep fried. Heres a web site to find out more if you want it is : http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Teahouse/5555/tempura.htmnt
2006-08-18 00:44:54
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answered by lighthouse lover 1
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