Text procedure “How To Make Tempura”

Ingredients:

 Plain flour: 100g (1Cup) *

 Egg: 1
 Cold water: 200cc (1Cup) *
 Baking Soda: 1 tea spoon
 Potato Starch: 2 table spoon
 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.
 Oil (Natane oil, sunflower, corn or canola oil)

*1cup =200cc

Make Tempura batter

1. Mix Plain flour, baking soda and potato starch together. And then sift mixed flour as
preparation.
2. Crack an egg into the bowl and beat it roughly. Add the cold water and mix them.
3. 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.
4. Then add an additional 1/3 flour and mix.
5. And finally add the last 1/3 flour and mix.
6. 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.

Prepare ingredients
Use the freshest ingredients you can find and cut them into pieces of same size to avoid
an uneven cook.

Root vegetables (potato, carrot, sweet potato) and pumpkins are sliced 1cm.

Prawn‘s preparation

1. Take off the head and shell, but keep the tail.
2. Remove the sand vein.
3. Scrape the tail to stop the oil spitting when you fry it.
4. Half cut the abdomen side every 1cm.
5. Then push back side to abdomen side by fingers.
How to fry Tempura
Put oil into a flying pan.

Heat up the frying oil to 170 degrees. You can check the oil temperature without a
thermometer. 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.

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.