Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Tempura

This past few weeks, we've been tampering with a tempura recipe.







This is the first batch I made, needlessly tripling a recipe to batter and fry a plethora of vegetables, ranging from zucchini, sweet potato, squash and onions. The batter was too runny; therefore, coating was not optimal.













We modified the recipe somewhat and it turned out much better. The recipe is as follows:


Makeshift Tempura
1 egg
3 ice cubes
3/4 cup of flour

Melt the ice cubes into ice water, mix with the egg, and then mix in flour. Be careful not to over mix the batter. Dip vegetables in batter, fry in cooking oil until golden brown. Dry on rack.


Pictures of improved tempura recipe to follow!

2 comments:

kacie said...

hey my mom makes tempura with some kind of mix from the korean supermarket. all you need is egg flour and water?

Ted Lee said...

It's a very basic tempura recipe. It's not going to win any awards, but it gets the job done and is quite tasty.