Tempura w/ Tempura Sauce & SIracha Mayo
Ingredients:
Ingredients:
1 cup Plain flour
1 Egg
1 Cup Cold water
1 Tsp Baking soda
2 Tbsp Corn starch
Your choice of
vegetables, sea foods and mushrooms such as potato, sweet potato, aubergine
(eggplant), zucchini (courgette), onion, capsicum (paprika), pumpkin, green
beans, carrot, okura, asparagus, prawn, white fish and squid.
Canola Oil (Make sure
about 2inch high from bottom of the pan
Tempura Batter:
Mix Plain flour, baking
soda and corn starch/potato starch together. And then sift mixed flour as
preparation.
Crack an egg into the
bowl and beat it roughly. Add the cold water and mix them.
Put 1/3 mixed flour in
to egg mixture and gently mix. Long cooking chop sticks are the best utensil
for mixing tempura batter. If you do not have them, use a fork instead.
Then add an additional
1/3 flour and mix.
And finally add the last
1/3 flour and mix.
**Important: Lumps in the flour is completely fine. Do not mix it too much as you will get a lot of gluten which makes it heavy and un-crispy tempura batter.
Cutting Ingredients:
Make sure seafood is fresh or thawed out properlly
Root vegetables (potato, carrot, sweet potato) and
pumpkins are sliced 1cm.
Frying Tempura:
Put oil into a flying pan.
Heat up the flying oil to 170 degrees. You can check the
oil temperature without a thermometer.
Puts vegetable into the tempura batter bowl to coat them
with tempura batter then carefully put them to the oil. Fry one side and then
turn over and fry the other side.
**Frying Tips
Put one drop of tempura batter into the oil. If the
tempura batter sinks the bottom of flying pan, it is too low temperature.
If the tempura batter did not sink at all and the batter
spread quickly with a crackling sound the it is too high temperature.
Best temperature condition is the drop of tempura batter
will sink half way in flying pan then float.
Tempura
Dipping Sauce
Ingredients:
2 TBSP Sambal Oelek
1 TBSP honey
1 teaspoon
toasted sesame oil
1/4 cup rice
vinegar
1/2 sup soy
sauce
Make the Dipping Sauce:
In a bowl
combine all ingredients and whisk thoroughly. Set aside.
