12/23/2023 0 Comments Tempura seaweed![]() I always do it, but you can skip it, if you don’t care about presentation. It’s a little extra step that takes a few extra minutes. Then you use your fingers to straight out the shrimp prior to cooking. But, you may wonder, how is that possible when shrimp curl up when cooked? Well, part of the preparation for the shrimp is that you score the underside of the shrimp crosswise. One thing I feel like I need to mention is that shrimp tempura is always straight. The other tip I have for you is to make sure to slice your root vegetables thin! Seriously, aim for shy of 1/4 inch thickness, or your veggies won’t cook through by the time your batter is done frying. Battered and breaded shrimp in the air fryer. Here’s the tempura batter separated out with extra flour on the side. Then, I dip my battered food in flour to dust the outsides. ![]() ![]() I make sure to use a batter that’s not too liquidy. Either that or the batter just causes all your food to stick to the basket or each other.Īir fryers are really best for breaded foods, not battered.īut just like in my air fryer mochiko chicken recipe, you can find ways around that. A thin batter will fly right off the food or drip right down to the bottom of the basket when the air starts circulating. If you’re familiar with air fryer cooking, you know that battered foods don’t always do well in the air fryer. The only tricky part about making tempura in an air fryer is figuring out, you guessed it, the batter. Adapting Tempura Recipes for the Air Fryer restaurant tempura, why bother following a fiddly recipe? In fact, why bother deep frying at all?Īnd thus, may I present to you, my ultimate cheater tempura hack: AIR FRYER TEMPURA. And if I already know I’m setting my expectations a little lower for homemade tempura vs. Um, this air fryer tempura looks pretty dang crispy to me! Not bad!īut also like I said earlier, the instructions for making good tempura batter at home can be somewhat intimidating. It’ll taste great, even if it doesn’t have the impossibly crispy light texture of tempura made by an artisan tempura chef. Like I said earlier, you can definitely make a decent enough tempura at home. Sometimes, you just want something homemade. ![]() So many failures.Īll that to say, when I want really really really good tempura, I just buy it from a restaurant. The instructions get so complex, it reminds of my phase where I thought I’d try making perfect French macarons at home. Then you have to dip and fry your food right away or the batter completely deflates. Many also say you have to use chopsticks to whip air into the batter, but NOT TOO MUCH. Others say you have to use water that’s so cold, it’s basically just a block of ice. It is an ART FORM.Ī lot of Japanese cooking blogs have their own tricks for getting the best batter at home. It should be light, not soggy or thick or oily. Note: you can make a decent tempura at home, no problem, but a GREAT tempura? Almost impossible.Ī great tempura has a lacy, crispy batter. Look, I need to just give it to you straight: making great tempura at home is SUPER HARD. Except I guess in this case it’s TEM-PU-RA, TEM-PU-RA.Īnyway, that was kind of a weird tangent. That’s how my piano teacher always used to say it. The stress is equal on all three beats: TRI-PL-ETT, TRI-PL-ETT, TRI-PL-ETT. If you ever learned to play music, think of it like the triplet rhythm pattern. Note: that should be pronounced “ten-don” with a long o, not like tendon the type of meat.Īlso another note on pronunciation: I notice a lot of Americans pronounce tempura with the emphasis on the “pur.” They say “tem-PURR-ah.” But in Japanese, all syllables (supposedly) have an equal emphasis. But tempura can also be a main dish served over rice, as in the dish tendon. You often find tempura served as a side dish at Japanese restaurants, part of bento boxes, or as a side for udon or soba. Tempura is a Japanese food that consists of shrimp and/or vegetables dipped in a batter and then deep fried. You can use this air fryer version for both shrimp tempura or vegetable tempura, to satisfy all your tempura cravings. ![]() Make Japanese tempura at home without the deep frying! This air fryer tempura recipe is quick, easy, and much healthier than the traditional deep fried version. Jump to Recipe Jump to Video Print Recipe ![]()
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