Tempura Recipe

Tempura is a Japanese dish that is made out of crispy deep fried seafood and vegetables. Usually ingredients such as prawns, squash, carrots, eggplants, green beans, sweet potatoes and okra are used. Tempura can be eaten on its own, with sauce or as a part of other dishes such as soba or udon soup, a very light dish with a really distinctive crispy batter. This crispy batter with most inside is what defines a really good tempura and the secret is really simple which I will explain below.

This dish was introduced in the mid-16th century by the early Portuguese Jesuits. Tempura like most of the other Japanese dishes is not a dish name but the method of cooking, which is why that term “tempura” is used to define the technique of…