Ebi No Tenpura- Shrimp Tempura

Tempura is well-known Japanese food. I started cooking it after I left Japan as I have no Mom to cook it for me.

It takes time to prepare, and scarly to deep fry it.

However, it's worth trying it!

Ready in: 75 minutes

Ingredients for two:
4 black tiger shrimp
Veggies, such as zucchinis, egg plants,  carrots, sweet potatoes, potatoes, mushrooms, pumpkins and onions
<Batter- or Go to Asian store, buy Tempura Powder!>
2 eggs
1 cup of water
Ice cubes
Flour
2 tablespoons of baking soda
<Tuyu dipping sauce, heat up>
500ml of Dashi stock
1 tablespoon of mirin
1 tablespoon of sake
4 tablespoons of soy sauce

Step 1: Prepare shrimp; Cut the "horn" (on the right in the photo), and chip the tip of the tail.

Step 2; Remove the black string from the back.

Step 3; Cut 3 places just to make it easy to straight shrimp.

Step 4; Dry them well, so oil doesn't come to you when deep frying.

Step 5; Put some flour onto shrimp.

Step 6; Crack eggs in a bowl, and add icy cold water in it.

 

Step 7; Add flour and baking powder in it. It should be still lumpy.


It should be just like a pancake mix.

Step 8; Place ice cubes in a different empty bowl, and put a bit of water in it. Place the bowl you made in Step 7 onto it to really cool down.

Step 9; Flap shrimp to reduce the flour that is on it, and dip in the batter. Flap it again.

Step 10 ; In a pan, heat up oil 170C, and deep fry shrimp.

  

Step 11; You will see crumbles in the oil after you fry some food. Repeatly remove them from the oil.

 



Step 12; Repeat Step 9 to 11 until you fry everything.

Check the oil temperature every time before frying items.