tempura

     

Tempura (てんぷら or 天麩羅, tenpura) is a classic Japanese dish of deep fried battered vegetables or seafood.

Trivia about tempura

  • Japanese dish of battered, deep-fried veggies or seafood
  • Tendon is a one-dish meal of rice topped with this mix of battered & fried seafood & vegetables
  • Shrimp covered in a flour, baking powder, salt, water & egg mix then deep-fried in peanut oil; it's popular in Japan
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a Tokyo fish market.) Many of the shrimp sold here in the Tsukiji Market will end up as this deep-fried dish, which surprisingly was introduced to Japan by the Portuguese
  • The Japanese don't dip just fish in the batter for this mealtime treat; they use vegetables, too

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