Tempura recipe

 

https://www.justonecookbook.com/tempura-recipe/

all ingredients must be as cold as possible:

• 1 cup (120 g) all-purpose flour (plain flour)
• 1 cold large egg (50 g without shell)
• 200 ml iced water

keep in the fridge until needed (but not too long before cooking otherwise gluten starts to form)

Oil temperature:

Seafood & Meat (350ºF or 180ºC)

• Meat (pork and chicken) – 3-4 minutes
• Shrimp – 2 minutes
• Squid – 1 minute
• Fish – 1 minute

Vegetables & Mushrooms (320ºF or 160ºC)

• Sweet potatoes – 2-3 minutes
• Kabocha – 2-3 minutes
• Shiitake mushrooms – 1 minute
• Eggplant 1 minute
• Shishito peppers – 30-40 seconds
• Shiso – 15-20 seconds