Vegetable Tempura From 'Japanese Soul Cooking

Name: Vegetable Tempura From 'Japanese Soul Cooking
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Japanese, Asian
Ingredients: 4 servings Tempura Dipping Sauce; 118 milliliters cake flour; 2 egg yolks; 59 milliliters ice cubes; 454 grams vegetables, sliced on an angle into bite-size pieces; 59 milliliters toasted sesame oil; 2 liters vegetable oil; 473 milliliters cold water; 4 servings Tempura Batter

Vegetable Tempura From 'Japanese Soul Cooking is a dairy free hor d'oeuvre. This recipe makes 4 servings with 4359 calories, 7g of protein, and 490g of fat each. This recipe covers 20% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up tempura dipping sauce, water, vegetable oil, and a few other things to make it today. This recipe is typical of Japanese cuisine. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.

Instructions

Combine the yolks and water in a bowl, mixing until they're incorporated, then add the ice cubes (the "wet" part of the batter).

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Ice Cubes

Water

Egg Yolk

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Bowl

To prepare a tempura cooking station: beside your burner, arrange the vegetables, a plate with the cake flour, and the wet and dry parts of the batter. Also, ready a tray lined with paper towels or newspaper to absorb the excess oil from the cooked vegetables, and the tools you’ll need: chopsticks, a metal strainer, and a candy thermometer, if you have one.

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Cake Flour

Vegetable

Candy

Cooking Oil

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Candy Thermometer

Paper Towels

Chopsticks

Sieve

Place a cooking vessel on the burner; use one with a uniform size to heat oil evenly, like a large cast-iron skillet or Dutch oven (don’t use a wok).

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Cooking Oil

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Dutch Oven

Frying Pan

Wok

Add the vegetable oil and sesame oil.

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Vegetable Oil

Sesame Oil

Heat the oil to 360°F over high heat.

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Cooking Oil

While the oil is heating, prepare the tempura batter: Quickly add the 2 cups flour to the liquid, in one shot. Hold 4 chopsticks together, the tips pointed down, like you're grabbing a bottle. Stab at the batter with the chopsticks, mashing down again and again to combine the dry and wet parts. Do not stir; you barely want to mix the batter.

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All Purpose Flour

Shot

Cooking Oil

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Chopsticks

Mix for about 30 seconds, or until the batter becomes loose and liquidy, with the consistency of heavy cream. It should be lumpy, with visible globs of dry flour floating in the liquid, and with unmixed flour sticking to the sides of the bowl. Remember, if you overmix the batter, you'll ruin it.

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Heavy Cream

All Purpose Flour

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Bowl

When the oil has reached 360°F, prepare to cook the vegetables in batches. Be careful not to overfill the skillet, which will lower the cooking temperature; use, at most, half of the surface area of the oil to cook. While the tempura is cooking, check the oil temperature with a candy thermometer. Regulate the heat to maintain a constant 360°F oil temperature. If the oil is too hot, the tempura will burn; if too low, the tempura will come out soggy and greasy.

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Vegetable

Candy

Cooking Oil

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Candy Thermometer

Frying Pan

Lightly dredge the vegetables in the flour, then dip into the batter. Immediately lay the vegetables in the hot oil. Working in batches, deep-fry the harder vegetables like sweet potato, carrot, or lotus root first, for about 3 minutes, until the vegetables turn golden brown.

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Sweet Potato

Lotus Root

Vegetable

Carrot

All Purpose Flour

Dip

Cooking Oil

Transfer the vegetables to the prepared tray to drain excess oil. Repeat with the other vegetables. Cook softer vegetables like asparagus, broccoli, and pumpkin for about 2 minutes. For shiso leaves, dredge only one side of the leaf with flour, and cook for about 1 minute.

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Shiso Leaves