Tendon (tempura rice bowl)

Name: Tendon (tempura rice bowl)
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 8 large prawns, peeled with tails left on; 1 small aubergine, sliced; 1 sweet potato, cut into 0.5 cm rounds; 1 bell pepper, cut into strips; For the tempura batter: 100 g plain flour, 200 ml ice-cold soda water or water, 1 egg yolk; oil for deep-frying; For the tentsuyu: 200 ml dashi, 3 tbsp soy sauce, 3 tbsp mirin, 1 tbsp sugar; 4 bowls of hot cooked rice

Time: 45 min4 servingsapprox. 560 kcal / serving (estimated)approx. 20 g protein / serving

Tendon (天丼, tempura-don) is the most popular rice dish with tempura: crisp tempura piled on hot rice with a thick, sweet and savoury soy sauce. Tempura is of Portuguese origin, but Japanese cuisine perfected it: a light, airy, almost transparent coating.

Tendon (tempura rice bowl) (illustration)

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Ingredients

8 large prawns, peeled with tails left on
1 small aubergine, sliced
1 sweet potato, cut into 0.5 cm rounds
1 bell pepper, cut into strips
For the tempura batter: 100 g plain flour, 200 ml ice-cold soda water or water, 1 egg yolk
oil for deep-frying
For the tentsuyu: 200 ml dashi, 3 tbsp soy sauce, 3 tbsp mirin, 1 tbsp sugar
4 bowls of hot cooked rice

Method

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Bring the tentsuyu ingredients to the boil, simmer for 2 minutes and keep warm.
Make 3–4 cuts across the belly of each prawn and straighten them so they do not curl when fried.
Mix the egg yolk with the ice-cold water, add the flour and stir with only 5–6 strokes of a fork; leave lumps (do not stir smooth).
Heat the oil to 170–180 °C; dip the prawns and vegetables into the batter and fry in small batches for 2–3 minutes until pale golden and crisp.
Drain on a rack or kitchen paper.
Put the rice in bowls, top with the tempura, pour over the warm tentsuyu and serve at once.

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Tips

The tempura batter should be ice-cold and not mixed smooth: the lumps give the airy texture.
The oil should be at 170–180 °C and fried in small batches.
Eat at once, since on the rice it softens quickly.
Faster: ready tempura flour mix is sold.

Frequently asked questions

What else can go in?

Mushrooms, courgette, pumpkin, shiso leaves, fish.

In an air fryer?

Not suitable: the thin batter runs off; deep-fry tempura in oil.

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