Tempura Recipe

Ingredients

• 4 shrimp
• 4 slices kabocha squash
• 4 slices sweet potato
• 4 slices eggplant
• 6 green beans
• 3/4 cup cake flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 3/4 cup water with 3-4 ice cubes
• oil ( for deep frying)
• Mentsuyu

Instructions

1. 1

   Cut vegetables into 1/4" thick slices. Make diagonal cuts on shrimp to help straighten.

2. 2

   Put cake flour, baking powder, salt in a medium bowl and whisk well.

3. 3

   Add ice water into flour mixture and stir with chopsticks (not whisk) about 10 times. It's OK to have a lot of lumps in batter.

4. 4

   Heat oil to very high temperature (375F). Dip vegetables and shrimp in batter, and deep fry until they float and are cooked through.