Along with Sushi, this is a popular Japanese dish
Along with sushi, when it comes to Japanese famous dishes abroad, we must mention Tempura.
This is a popular food ranked in the top favorite Japanese dishes when surveying the opinion of foreigners coming to Japan.
From high-class Japanese food restaurants to family food!
Tempura is a dish where seafood and vegetables are mixed into flour and water, then mixed with eggs and dipped in a flour mixture and fried with vegetable oil. You seem to have many ways to enjoy this dish with only salt dipped in salt and fried flour mixture at the high-end Tempura restaurants. Usually, Tempura is eaten with a slightly sweetened sauce combined with Dashi broth, soy sauce, Mirin, or served with a sauce mixed with a little white radish and finely chopped ginger. Tempura is a delicacy at fine restaurants. But in Japan, they are often made as family dishes, and is also a dish of the taste of ordinary people that you can buy right in the corner of everyday food at supermarkets. Marketing.
Whether it's Soba, whether it's Udon, even Donburi's rice dishes
The appeal of Tempura is that you can not only feel their crunchiness, but in any street you can enjoy them. There are many ways to enjoy Tempura such as you go to Udon restaurants or Japanese Soba noodles, or enjoy them by putting Tempura on top of white rice, then dipping with sweet sauce and enjoying Tendon (rice class in below). Each one has different flavors, so be sure to enjoy a variety of Tempura. This dish can be enjoyed in many forms, from high-end specialty restaurants to the standing Soba taste of ordinary people, so before eating, let's consider the financial ability. like, want to enjoy any kind of flavor or atmosphere!
Tempura Shared items
Tendon
This is the dish that Tempura is placed on a large rice bowl. When displayed in a large box with many trays, it is called Tenjuu.
Tenzaru
Familiar menu created by a combination of cold noodles Zarusoba and Tempura.
Tempurasoba
In Tempurasoba, Tempura is placed on top of Kakesoba hot noodles, this dish was born in the Edo period.
Tenmusubi
Tenmusubi (also known as Tenmusu) is a rice ball served with salty tempura shrimp, and placed in a tray.
Other fried foods
1. Tonkatsu (deep-fried pork)
2. Korokke (crisps)
3. Menchi (minced meat)
4. Mikkusu Furai (deep fried mix)
5. Karaage (Japanese deep-fried chicken)
History of Tempura
Is it true that Japanese food originates from the West?
Regarding the origin of the word Tempura, it is also mentioned in Portuguese and also in Spanish. In Japan during the Nara period to the Heian period, there appeared to be breaded and fried dishes. These are fried foods that use rice flour. It is thought that between the 16th and 17th centuries, the Western fried dough was introduced to Japan and it developed independently as today's Tempura in Japan.
In the Edo period
Tempura is considered a dish that ordinary people stand to eat, Tempura dish was skewered on the counter in the counter as a snack. Tempura restaurants were born after the Meiji period onwards.
Fry Tempura powder Taky
The special feature of Fry Tempura powder Taky is stirring the dough with ice cold water, when frying due to the difference in temperature between the cold dough and hot oil, the dough will have rough and crunchy texture sticking to the fried food, creating a special flavor. Japanese logo.
The difference of Tempura powder is that it fried all kinds of vegetables such as squash (chrysanthemum), perilla, okra, pumpkin, eggplant, sweet potato, sweet peppers ... and seafood.