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Crispy vegetable and shrimp tempura: golden-fried delicate morsels served with a savory dipping sauce.
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The best tempura recipes
Tempura is the light, lacy Japanese fry: seafood and vegetables dipped in a cold, barely-mixed batter and fried until the coating is crisp and almost translucent. The whole art is in keeping the batter cold and lumpy and the oil steady, and the best recipes are precise about both.
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Vegetable Tempura 野菜の天ぷら
Assorted vegetables coated in delicate batter and deep-fried until golden create crispy, airy tempura served with warm dipping sauce.
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Japanese Eggplant Tempura
Battered eggplant slices fried until crispy golden and dipped in savory mentsuyu sauce.
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Kakiage Bukkake Udon Recipe
Chilled udon noodles topped with crispy vegetable and shrimp tempura, served with a savory dipping sauce. A light, refreshing summer lunch.
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Chicken Tempura (Toriten) とり天 (Video)
Crispy golden chicken pieces coated in a delicate batter and deep-fried, served with ponzu and mustard sauce.
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Tempura Soba Recipe
Crispy shrimp tempura perched over tender soba noodles in a hot, savory broth. Elegant and deeply satisfying.
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Tempura Recipe
Delicate shrimp and vegetables encased in a light, crispy batter fried until golden. The classic Japanese deep-fry technique at its finest.
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Soba Noodle Soup (Video) 温かいお蕎麦
A warming bowl of buckwheat noodles in rich dashi broth topped with crispy shrimp tempura and fish cake. Perfect comfort food that takes about 45 minutes from start to finish.
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Gluten Free Tempura Recipe
Crispy gluten-free tempura batter coating vegetables and shrimp, served with dipping sauce.
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Chicken Tempura Recipe
Sliced chicken breast battered and deep-fried until golden and crispy, served simply with salt.
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Gluten Free Tempura (Video) グルテンフリーの天ぷら
Delicate gluten-free tempura featuring shrimp and seasonal vegetables with a light crispy rice flour coating.
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How to Make the Best Tempura 天ぷら
A guide to making crispy, golden-brown tempura featuring vegetables and shrimp fried in a delicate flour-and-egg batter.
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Tenkasu (Agedama) - Tempura Scraps
Homemade crispy tempura batter bits that add wonderful crunch to noodles, okonomiyaki, and other Japanese comfort foods.
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Fried Squid Ring Recipe
Bite-sized pieces of squid are dipped in a light batter and deep-fried until golden, served with matcha-infused salt.
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Common questions about tempura
What makes tempura batter so light?
The batter is made with ice-cold water and barely mixed, leaving it lumpy. The cold and minimal gluten development keep it thin and lacy rather than bready, so it fries up delicate and crisp.
What is tentsuyu?
Tentsuyu is the tempura dipping sauce, a warm dashi, soy and mirin blend, often served with grated daikon and ginger to cut the richness of the fry.
What vegetables are good for tempura?
Sweet potato, kabocha squash, eggplant, shishito peppers, mushrooms and green beans are all classic, along with prawns and white fish. Pieces are cut thin enough to cook through quickly.