Tempura is a popular Japanese
dish of deep fried
battered
meats, seafood,
or vegetables. Just delicious!!!
Ingredients
Tempura batter
-
200g plain flour
- 50g corn flour
- 250ml soda water
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate soda
- chilled water
Nori roll
- 1 roasted seaweed sheet
- 2 eggs
- 4 sprigs of coriander
- 3 leaves of Thai basil
- 6 leaves of Vietnamese mint
- 50g roasted red capsicum strips
- 50g enoki mushrooms
- 4 green beans, blanched
Sweet and sour sauce
-
100ml sweet chilli sauce
- 1 lime, juiced
Method
- To make tempura batter,
whisk all in bowl, add chilled water until you reach consistency that just
coats your finger.
- For sweet and sour sauce, whisk all ingredients together and set aside.
- To make nori roll, whisk eggs well and pour into warm non-stick pan. Sprinkle
herbs over top and season with salt and pepper.
- Gently roll omelet. It should be approximately 30cm long and 5cm wide. Place in
centre of seaweed sheet, on one side of omelet lay green beans, then capsicum,
then enoki mushrooms. It does not matter if ingredients hang out the ends as
this adds to the appearance.
- Moisten end of seaweed sheet furthest away from you (work quickly so sheet
doesn't curl up). Now roll dry end of seaweed over ingredients, tuck in,
continue to roll onto wet end which will bind the roll together.
- Lightly dip in tempura batter just to coat. Shallow fry in oil approx 180°C
until crisp, batter should still be white.
- Trim ends level, slice into 3 even logs, slice each log on angle and stand up
(you will need a good sharp knife for this). Drizzle sauce over top and serve.
(Source: ninemsn.com)