Simple Tempura
Simple Tempura recipe
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1 egg, slightly beaten
1 cup ice water
1 cup flour
Add the ice water to the beaten egg, and whisk vigorously until well blended.
Slowly add flour. Batter will be thin.
Joy
From: Soonersnt
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003
Subject: Re: Searching for Tempura
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DISCUSSION:
From: Juliann Tarsney
Thanks for this. At what temp do you do the frying, in what oil, and for how
long? I never thought of making tempura at home, but it sounds fun.
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From: Paul
I'd guess it's a fairly medium temp. for only a few minutes,
depending how you sliced it into carrot sticks. I'd use canola, less
fattening, and it is fairly light without much residual grease after
you dab the food with paper towel to absorb it.
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From: Sibyl Smirl
A popular item on our hot bar at the Lakeside a few years ago was cucumber
slices, battered like that and very briefly deep fried. I don't know what
temp you'd want for carrots, our fryers at the restaurants were always the
same temp, all day long (300° F at the Lakeside, IIRC), and we changed the
timing for different things. The cucumber slices were oddly very good,
only reminiscent of cucumber taste, and very much their own thing.
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From: Joy
I would bet that making tempura carrots is pretty much the same. I know that
the batter should be very, very light and that the frying time is minimal.
At the big German festival a few miles north of us, last year we were able to
sample fried Oreos, fried veggies of all kinds, and of course fried apples.
I think in Texas people would even fry gravy, if it were possible.
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From: mary jane anderson
> The cucumber slices were oddly very good,
Carrot slices are similar. The ones I've had tempura style have been
sliced lengthwise. Also good are broccoli heads, parsnip or turnip
(sliced thin), and onion slices.
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From: Jay, sweet potato fan
Thin slices of sweet potato are wonderful too!
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