Vegetable tempura Recipe

I love tempura. I almost always order it whenever I see it on the menu at a Chinese restaurant – the rest of the time I go for spring rolls, another firm favourite. Tempura is actually a Japanese dish, and it’s just vegetables (or sometimes seafood, though I avoid that for obvious reasons) that have been dipped in a really light batter, and deep fried.

I am aware that using the words ‘light’ and ‘deep fried’ in the same sentence may sound like a bit of an oxymoron, but tempura batter is so thin and crispy that ‘light’ just seems like the perfect way to describe it. It’s made with sparkling water, and the bubbles keep it really… light. There’s no other word!

You can use pretty much whatever vegetables you like to make your…