Categories: Asian, Fish

Ingredients

• Ingredients:
• -large shrimps
• -100g flour
• -180ml chilled water
• -1 large egg
• -oil for frying

Directions

1. Instructions:

2. Prepare your shrimps. They should be deveined and stretched. Make a shallow cut on the back of the shrimp and remove the vain. Make some small shallow spaced cuts on the inside of the shrimp. Now gently flatten the shrimp, belly side down. This should form a long, thin strip. After it rinse the shrimp under cold water and pat with paper towls.

3. Before you start make sure everything is cold and was in the fridge before. Into a cold bowl add chilled water, and a whole egg. Mix everything but try to create not to much foam.

4. Slowly sieve add the flour by using chopsticks to incorporate.

5. Preheat the oil to 170°C / 340°F

6. Coat your shrimps in a thin layer of flour and dip them in the batter. Carefully place them into the oil and fry until golden brown. For extra flakiness, pour some of the batter over the shrimp while frying. Fry not to many at a time. Place them on paper towls to drain excess oil.

7. Tempura Sauce

8. -120ml dashi

9. -60ml soy sauce

10. -60ml mirin

11. -1 tbsp sugar

12. In a pan combine dashi, soy sauce, mirin and sugar. Bring the mixture to a simmer over medium heat, stir until the sugar is dissolved. Let the sauce cool to room temperature.

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