Content

• Part 2 of 3: Preparing Food for Frying
• Part 3 of 3: Roasting
• Tips
• What do you need

1 Place about 250 ml of ice water in a bowl.

2 Shake 1 large egg. Remove the egg from the refrigerator just before use as it should be well chilled.

3 Add flour and baking soda to the egg and water mixture.

4 Stir the batter lightly and don’t worry if it contains small lumps or unmixed flour. If you stir too much, the tempura will not be crispy.

5 Refrigerate the batter while you cook the food for frying.

Part 2 of 3: Preparing Food for Frying

1. 1 Prepare the foods that you will fry in the tempura batter in advance. If you are making fish tempura, wash the fish and remove the bones from it. If using shrimp, remove the veins.
2. 2 Use the freshest vegetables you can find for vegetable tempura. Wash vegetables thoroughly.
3. 3 Cut the vegetables into large pieces. Do not use soft vegetables, they will get damp during frying.
4. 4 Blot the chopped vegetables with a paper towel. Refrigerate the vegetables until you start to fry them.

Part 3 of 3: Roasting

1. 1 Place the bowl of tempura batter in an oversized bowl filled with ice water. The batter must be chilled throughout the entire cooking process.
2. 2 Season the chopped vegetables.
3. 3 Pour 5 to 8 centimeters of cooking oil into a thick-walled skillet. Use almost any type of oil, rapeseed, sunflower, corn, peanut. Avoid frying in olive oil, which will ruin the natural tempura flavor with its rich aroma. If you are deep-frying, follow the manufacturer's oil level recommendations.
4. 4 Heat oil to 175 C. If you don't have a cooking thermometer, visually inspect the oil by dripping one drop of batter into it. If the oil is hot enough, a drop of batter will first dive to the bottom and then quickly float to the surface.
5. 5 Dip cooked vegetables in tempura batter, then put in heated oil.
6. 6 Flip each bite so that it cooks evenly on both sides.
   • Fry the tempura until the batter is golden brown.
7. 7 Use tongs to remove the fried tempura, then place it on a folded paper towel.
8. 8 Ready.
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Tips

• Dry vegetables, meats, etc. before dipping it in batter.
• Sift the flour for a smoother consistency.
• Make tempura with bananas or ice cream. Fry the banana slices in tempura batter, sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve hot with ice cream.

What do you need

• Medium bowl
• Paper towels
• Large bowl of ice water
• Frying oil
• Deep fryer or heavy-walled skillet.