Tenpura

Flavor: Other; Cooking Method: Deep-fry; Time: One hour; Difficulty: Moderate.

Tenpura Cooking Steps

Wash and peel the sweet potatoes and carrot, then cut into thick slices.

Rinse the crab sticks and set aside.

After washing and peeling the daikon radish, grate it into a paste and drain excess water.

Take 6 tablespoons of tenpura flour (using a wooden spoon), gradually add slightly less than a cup of water, and stir until it forms a thin batter.

Thin batter

Dip the sweet potato slices into the batter, ensuring they are evenly coated (repeat for other ingredients).

Heat a pan, add enough salad oil, and heat over high heat until the oil temperature rises.

The key to tenpura is controlling the oil temperature: heat the oil over high heat (without smoking, if it smokes, the temperature is too high), then use a chopstick with batter to drip into the oil. If the batter drops and quickly floats up (without darkening quickly), the oil temperature is right. Reduce the heat to medium and start frying the ingredients.

In batches, place the batter-coated sweet potatoes and other ingredients into the hot oil, maintaining medium heat for slow frying.

If you notice the batter on the ingredients darkening quickly, reduce the heat slightly and add a little cold salad oil to lower the oil temperature.

During frying, ensure the ingredients are separated, not sticking together, and turn them over at the right time.

After frying, place the ingredients in a sieve to drain excess oil.

Use a slotted spoon to remove impurities from the oil pan, then continue frying the next batch of ingredients.

While frying the next batch of ingredients, line a plate with paper towels, place the drained ingredients on the paper, and drain the oil again.

After repeating this process for each batch of ingredients, plate them.

Drain excess water from the grated daikon radish (do not squeeze by hand, just pour out excess water in the plate), then drizzle with a little soy sauce.

When serving, top the tenpura with a bit of soy sauce-dipped daikon radish paste. Enjoy the crispy, sweet, and delicious flavors!