Prawn and Vegetables Tempura with Rice

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High calorie, high fat and high cholesterol lunch.... Tempura with rice. Unhealthy, but delicious - which is often the case with unhealthy food...;).




I like to use this recipe I found in Recipezaar to make my tempura, because the tempura coating turns out very crispy and stays so for a long time. It calls for (non-dark) beer and rice flour, but I omit the cayenne pepper and garlic powder, because these two ingredients are too overpowering - they make the tempura non-Japanese in taste. Instead I like to add a bit of oyster sauce to add some flavour to the tempura batter.

I also like to use instant tempura batter, the best one I've tried so far is the one from Ottogi, a Korean brand. When using instant tempura batter, I always use ice-cold water to make sure the tempura turns out crispy. I've tried making tempura batter with egg, but it was not as good as the non-egg tempura batter.



Ingredients
  • 10 prawns
  • 1 spring onion, cut into 5 cm long matchstick pieces
  • 1 medium onion, sliced
  • 1/2 cup cold beer /cold soda water
  • 1/2 rice flour
  • 1/2 tbs oyster sauce
Tempura Dipping Sauce
  • 100 ml dashi stock
  • 3 tbs soy sauce
  • 2 tbs mirin
  • 2 tbs sake
  • 1 tbs sugar
What to do
  • Whisk cold beer, oyster sauce and rice flour in a bowl.
  • Coat the prawns and onions with flour before dipping them in the tempura batter mixture.
  • Deep fry for 12 seconds.



And...being a sushi lover, here is my 2 cents - use your prawn tempura to make sushi too :)!




In Sydney, there are many small Sushi bars selling handrolls looking like the sushi rolls above for AU$1.80 each. I don't know if the rolls still cost the same now, or more expensive.



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11 comments:

  1. I definitely want to try your method. Thanks for sharing :)

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  2. Hey there! I am more and more impressed with you every time I visit your blog! Your dishes are perfect and my mouth is watering whenever I stop by to check out what kind of culinary adventure you are on! Keep up a great work. I am now truly inspired to make my own tempura!

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  3. Wow! You made your own tempura and sushi? That's so great! I don't have the courage to make those 2 dishes at all, seriously... scared that they wont turn out good at all, hehehe...

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  4. Tempura and sushi at home...mmmm...you are a pro!

    Angie's Recipes

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  5. Did you make these sushi yourself??!! They look SO neat and professionally done!! Perfect! The prawns look delicious as well!

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  6. Unhealthy food but delicous ! hua222
    I agree with you Sinta !
    so tempting look your creation , bisa buka resto Jepun disana yah !

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  7. wonderful!! you can surely open a restaurant!!:D

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  8. Oh I love making veggie tempura at home. Yours look very delish! I don't think it's unhealthy food, this sure beats eating outside ;)

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  9. thank you for sharing, I used to use Japanese bradcrumbs (Panko) for my tempura, will try your recipe one day! :-)
    I really like your sushi, my hubby is a big fan of sushi, he likes to show off my homemade sushi lunch to his colleagues and make them jealous and starting to demand more suhsi from him.. lol

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  10. Oh my what a delicious array of food! The sushi looks fantastic!

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  11. What a feast! The tempura and sushi all look fantastic! I wish you're my neighbor ;-)

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