We bought shrimps (...again! we really love shrimps) and instead of cooking the
buttered shrimps and the
ginataan hipon, I tried the tempura.
Tempura is deepfried dish of vegetables or seafoods. To make them crispy, each will be dipped in batter - a mixture of water, egg, flour and salt, before deep frying. What makes the tempura delicious is the dipping sauce. The
original dipping sauce includes dashi and mirin, but since Japanese stores are nowhere to be found in my area, my
Nora Daza cookbook saved my day!
If you want to maintain the crispiness of the tempura, try rolling them in japanese breadcrumbs, called
panko. That's what I did and it really did make the tempura more crispy.
So here's the recipe, try it!
Ingredients
For the tempura
15 pcs shrimps (suahe type)
salt and pepper
Batter
3/4 cup flour
3/4 cup water
1 egg
salt and pepper to taste
1 cup of panko for coating the shrimps
Procedure
Shrimp
1. Shell, devein and wash the shrimps. I butterfly cut the shrimps by making a slit at the back. Do not take off the tails. Season with salt and pepper, then prepare the batter.
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| deveined and butterfly-ed shrimps |
2. For the batter, combine all the ingredients and mix well.
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| Batter |
3. Heat oil in the frying pan or deep fryer. The shrimps must be submerged in hot oil to achieve an even golden brown crust. Aside from that, we want soft and juicy shrimps and if you have insufficient oil, tendency is to have a longer cooking time resulting to dry and tough shrimps.
Anyway, once the cooking oil is hot, cooked the tempura until golden brown.
4. To remove the excess oil, place them in a kitchen paper towel.
Dipping Sauce
Ingredients
1 cup hot water
1 chicken boullion cube
2 tbsps soy sauce
1 tsp grated ginger
2 tbsps grated radish
Just mix everything and that's it!!
Hope you'll like it!
