The classic light weight batter is perfect with prawns and with vegetables.
Tempura is one of the most popular and well known Japanese dishes that s widely enjoyed all over the world.
It is specially enjoyed on cocktail nights.
It also goes best with rice bowls and noodle soup.
Let’s make Shrimp/prawn tempura πππ
Type- Starter, Appetizer
Preparation time- 15-20 minutes
Cooking time- 8-10 minutes
Ingredients:
- 1 lb fresh shrimp
- Salt to taste
- 1 cup water
- 4-5 ice cubes
- 1 cup tempura flour or you can easily make Tempura flour at home just by mixing- 1 cup all purpose flour+1/2 baking powder+1 egg yolk and your homemade tempura flour is ready
- Oil to deep fry
- 1 cup flour for coating
Procedure:
- First wash your shrimps with water
- Pat dry them
- Take a sharp knife but be very careful
- Slit your shrimps from head to before the tail
- But don’t slit that it cuts into half
- Now cut horizontally keeping alternate gaps
- Place it on a board and start pinching the cut portion with your fingers until it seals up making a clicking noise
- Prepare rest of the shrimp
- Please go through my video thoroughly and you will easily make tempura
- In a bowl add 4-5 ice cubes
- In that add 1 cup water
- Mix and add 1 cup tempura flour or your own homemade tempura mixture to the ice water
- Now take 1 shrimp and roll over dry flour
- Shake the excess flour
- Dip into the tempura batter
- And deep fry them
- Fry until golden brown and crisp
- Serve them with sweet chilli sauce and cocktail sauce
Ingredients for simple cocktail sauce:
- 2 tbs mayonnaise
- 2 tsp hot sauce
- 1 tsp tomato ketchup
Procedure for simple cocktail sauce:
- In a bowl add the mayonnaise
- Add 2 tsp hot sauce and mix
- Add 1 tsp tomato ketchup
- Mix and keep it refrigerated
- Serve it chilled
We’ve added a step by step video of the recipe below πππ
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