Cookery Class - Step by Step
Vegetable Tempura from True Love
Be creative with your vegetables and treat your guests to this exquisite Japanese delicacy. Tempura is a batter-dipped, deep-fried dish made with good quality vegetables, fish or seafood. It is great for light meals or as part of the snack tray.Learn to cook something else?
Ingredients
1 medium onion8 Portobellini mushrooms
100 g asparagus
100 g baby corn
50 g green beans, halved
1 baby aubergine, thinly sliced
1 small red pepper, seeded and cut into squares
1 medium carrot, thinly sliced, diagonally
flour for dusting the vegetables
oil for deep-frying
Batter:
1 large egg, beaten slowly
375 ml ice cold water
250 ml flour
250 ml maizena (corn flour)
pinch of salt
Dipping sauce:
125 ml fish sauce
80 ml light soya sauce
80 ml rice vinegar
30 ml tom yum paste
15 ml grated fresh ginger or pickled ginger
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Prep time : | 40 | |
Cooking time : | 20 |
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Want to know more? | read our cooks notes |
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Step 1
Halve the onion from the root end. Insert toothpicks at regular intervals to hold onion rings together and slice between. Remove and discard mushroom stems and cut accross in the top of the caps. |
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