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Tempura
Appetizer 🌍 Public 🥜 Allergy aware

Tempura

Lightly battered vegetables and shrimp in a paper-thin, crispy coating — the art of Japanese frying.

⏱️ Prep time 25 min. 🍳 Cook time 15 min. 🍽️ 4 servings 📊 Difficulty: hard ⭐ 8/10
🥜 Allergies considered in this recipe: 🥚 Ei🌾 Gluten🦐 Schalentiere🫘 Soja

Source / link: Japanische Küche

Ingredients

Amounts adjust automatically.
500 g Vegetables (sweet potato, zucchini, bell pepper, mushrooms)
200 g Shrimp (optional, peeled)
120 g Flour (or gluten-free)
200 ml Ice water
1 Stück Egg (optional, or 1 TL baking powder)
150 ml Dashi or vegetable broth (dip)
2 EL Soy sauce (or tamari) for the dip
1 EL Rice wine (mirin, optional)
500 ml Oil for frying

Preparation

  1. 1Cut the vegetables into thin slices or sticks.
  2. 2Briefly mix the flour with very cold water and egg (optional) with chopsticks — the batter may remain lumpy.
  3. 3Heat the oil to 175 °C.
  4. 4Dip the vegetables and shrimp in the batter and immediately fry in small batches for 2–3 minutes until light golden and crispy.
  5. 5Drain on paper towels.
  6. 6For the dip: stir together broth, soy sauce (or tamari), and mirin.
  7. 7Serve the tempura immediately with the dip.

Notes & tips

Note: Contains egg (batter) + gluten (flour) + possibly shellfish (shrimp) + soy (dip). Batter without egg (cold water + baking powder), gluten-free flour, omit shrimp, soy-free dip. Vegetables are low-allergen.

Nutrition

estimated per serving
Calories
1329 kcal
Protein
19 g
Fat
127 g
Carbs
30 g

– = ingredient not in nutrition database (estimate incomplete)