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Tempura

Courses: Starters and appetizers
Serves: 2 people

Recipe Ingredients

1 lb 454g / 16ozFlour
1/2 lb 227g / 8ozCornstarch
3   Eggs
1 1/2 cups 219g / 7.7ozCrushed ice - (to 2 cups)
1/2 cup 99g / 3.5ozClub soda
1   Salt
2   Shiitake mushroom caps
4   Carrot
1   Zucchini - sliced
2   Scallions
1   Sweet potato - sliced
4   Tail-on shrimp - peeled and deveined (large)
2 tablespoons 30mlFlour - for dredging
3 cups 711mlOil
  For The Sauce
1 tablespoon 15mlSoy sauce
1 1/2 teaspoons 7.5mlSherry
1 1/2 teaspoons 7.5mlRice wine vinegar
1 tablespoon 15mlThinly-sliced green onions
1 tablespoon 15mlWater

Recipe Instructions

In a bowl combine sauce ingredients and set aside. Place oil in a deep-fat fryer or heavy saucepan and heat until a deep-fry thermometer registers 375 degrees.

Meanwhile, in a bowl sift together flour and cornstarch. Then add eggs, ice, club soda, pinch of salt and stir just to pull together, not to mix completely.

Dredge the vegetables and shrimp in flour and dip into the flour mixture. Carefully drop into the fryer and cook until golden. Serve with the sauce.

This recipe yields 2 servings.

Source:
ESSENCE OF EMERIL with Emeril Lagasse - From the TV FOOD NETWORK - (Show # EE-2216 broadcast 10-27-1997) - Downloaded from their Web-Site - http://www.foodtv.com

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