In the intervening centuries, the Japanese have turned frying into an art form: at a really good tempura-ya joint, you sit right in front of your personal chef — time is of the essence with tempura, so the closer you are to the action, the better your meal will be. This is achieved, in part, by minimising gluten formation in the batter, either by using a low-protein flour, like the cake flour Nancy Singleton Hachisu calls for , or a proportion of gluten-free flour — corn being the most popular.
To keep things as cold as possible, several recipes add ice to the batter mixture itself, but the inevitable meltwater means that later batches of tempura become increasingly soggy and leak excess moisture into the frying oil. Double cream is what I aim for. One of the most important elements of the recipe is in the mixing: the batter should be stirred as little as possible to minimise that gluten formation. Do not overcrowd the pan — cook the tempura in small batches, and make sure the oil comes back up to temperature before adding another batch, because cooking it at too low a heat will lead to oily, soggy results.
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What can you do with leftover tempura batter? Two thumbs up! I also have a few functional antique seltzer bottles so an endless supply of crisp 60psi seltzer. Mushrooms, being like all water, are a good test. Simple recipe, crispy white tempura, was a big hit with all. When I do this I sit my batter in a bowl of ice to keep it very cold and I add chopped herbs to it. Parsley is very good and so is chives.
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I think we all want to feel connected to our tribe of family and friends. It is this very balance that tempura chefs strive to train for year after year.
If you over deep fry a piece of food it becomes oily because the water within the food has now all evaporated and due to the lack of outward moving bubbles, the oil can now penetrate into the food. This is why tempura chefs are able to tell the doneness of the food based on the size of the bubbles, as the bubbles gradually shrink as the amount of steam decreases.
If insufficient water is not cooked out of the food before it is removed from the oil. Steam will continue to be emitted out of the food and absorbed into the batter, making the batter more and more soggy the longer you leave it. Because of this, tempura should be served as soon as possible. The exceptions for these are extremely thin ingredients that themselves already hold very little water such as shiso leaves, mitsuba parsley, sakura ebi or even prawn heads.
Firstly, as repeated many times already, tempura should be served as soon as possible, but there are actually ways to maintain the crispness that have nothing to do with how you cook it. A traditional tempura restaurant fries the ingredient before usually dabbing it once on tempura paper on their side of the counter to remove excess oil, before placing it directly before you on another piece of tempura paper.
This tempura paper, which is traditionally made with Japanese washi paper, is designed to absorb any excess oil which helps to maintain the crispness of the tempura. However, the convention in these restaurants is that the piece at hand is eaten before the next piece is fried, therefore it is actually not suitable to use in a home setting as by the time you have made a plate full of tempura, the pieces you had fried earlier would already start to be soggy.
Even if you were to pile them on tempura paper which you can typically buy in any cheap yen store , the pieces piled on top will trap the steam being released from the pieces below, causing the pieces below to get extra soggy. This brings us to rule 2: serve in a manner that allows steam to escape.
Even in terms of moving the tempura, the pieces were placed into a wire meshed strainer over a bowl and brought to you, before placed on your cooling rack.
This cooling rack idea was ingenious as it allowed the excess steam to escape from both above and below the tempura piece, allowing it to continue staying crisp. I cannot emphasise enough how this small change of using a wire rack to serve tempura can have a much bigger impact on the final quality of the tempura compared to all the changes to cooking technique and ingredients you could use.
This idea behind the excess internal steam causing the tempura to not remain crisp also informs the way we prepare the ingredients for tempura. Again, this section is actually nothing new and serves the purpose to emphasize parts of the tempura preparation that can be found in all recipes but are typically overlooked or not seen as crucial steps in making tempura.
This process can be seen in all parts of how ingredients are traditionally prepared. For example, fish is dried using fish paper as in a sushi restaurant before frying or if the recipe is in english it probably says blot with paper towels.
A small cut is also made in the tail of the prawn before being scraped with the tip of a knife to squeeze out excess water before the entire prawn is dried with fish paper again. Even the famous uni wrapped with shiso leaves tempura incorporates this technique as both sides of the shiso leaf is dusted with flour before used to wrap the uni as the inside absorbs the water from the uni whilst the outside dusting lets the batter stick to the leaf.
This leads us to rule 4: make sure your ingredients are as dry as possible before you fry them. This has also led to more interesting ideas such as using ever so slightly under ripe eggplants for tempura as ripe eggplants tend to have soggy flesh that will steam up the batter. The most modern tempura ingredient that plays on this idea of course are courgette flowers stuffed with ricotta and parma ham. The flower petals of courgette flowers themselves contain little to no moisture and are therefore perfect for tempura.
They are the perfect vessel that can be used to encapsulate ricotta cheese which will melt from their own steam. If the flowers are torn in the process and the ricotta cheese leaks out into the oil, the batter will not only not be crispy, but will cause the oil to splash. The hardest part about deep frying at home is actually the method by which the oil is heated.
Our conventional stoves or induction heating heats the pot of oil from the bottom, meaning that there is a constant convection correct of the hot oil moving towards the top whilst cool oil on top sinks to the bottom. This also means that bits of tempura flour that start to brown and absorb oil will sink to the bottom of the pot and burn as the heat source is from the bottom. In a commercial deep fryer in western restaurants and fast food chains, the heating element is actually around the size of the oil container, meaning that bits that fall to the bottom do not burn.
The reason why this is alright for tempura is that compared to other types of deep fried food, the batter for tempura is not only a liquid coating, it is also extremely light, meaning that the bits that do flake off from the food tend to float on top. This lets you remove it with a sieve before they sink to the bottom. Rule 5: remove extra batter from the pot between frying pieces of food. The reasoning behind this is that copper is the second best conductor of heat behind silver, making it the best conductor of heat for cooking.
Pure copper pots are hard to find and they are traditionally lined with tin.
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