Tempura with Summer Vegetables and Meat-Stuffed Bitter Melon
Tempura with Summer Vegetables and Meat-Stuffed Bitter Melon

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, tempura with summer vegetables and meat-stuffed bitter melon. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Great recipe for Tempura with Summer Vegetables and Meat-Stuffed Bitter Melon. I just came up with packing meat inside the bitter melon. The other tempura are my family's regular dish as I've been making them for a while. Adding a little sugar helps the coating to become nice and crispy.

Tempura with Summer Vegetables and Meat-Stuffed Bitter Melon is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Tempura with Summer Vegetables and Meat-Stuffed Bitter Melon is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have tempura with summer vegetables and meat-stuffed bitter melon using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Tempura with Summer Vegetables and Meat-Stuffed Bitter Melon:
  1. Prepare 1/2 Bitter Melon
  2. Take 100 grams ★ Ground pork
  3. Get 1 ★ Grated ginger
  4. Make ready 1 dash ★ Salt
  5. Get 8 leaves Shiso leaves
  6. Take 1/6 Kabocha squash
  7. Take 3 Asparagus
  8. Make ready 2 small Eggplants
  9. Get 1 ☆ Sugar
  10. Take 200 ml ☆ Cake flour
  11. Prepare 200 ml ☆ Ice cold water
  12. Make ready 1 ☆ Egg
  13. Take 1 Oil
  14. Make ready 1 Grated daikon radish
  15. Prepare 1 Mentsuyu

I was a bit skeptical, but when I heard some people say "I don't like bitter melon, but I like it when it's tempura," I got encouraged. I was initially planning to make simple tempura, but then I saw some meat-stuffed versions, and I thought it would be fun to stuff mine with tofu. For vegetable tempura, starchy root vegetables such as sweet potato, Kabocha squash, and lotus roots are most ideal. Other popular ingredients such as Japanese mushrooms (shiitake and oyster), eggplants, okra, shiso leaves, and shishito peppers are also suitable for frying in the batter.

Steps to make Tempura with Summer Vegetables and Meat-Stuffed Bitter Melon:
  1. Slice the bitter melon into 1 cm rounds. Knead the ★ ground pork with the grated ginger and salt. Pack it inside the bitter melon.
  2. Slice the asparagus into 5 cm long pieces, and the kabocha squash into 5 mm thick slices.
  3. Shred the shimeji mushrooms into small clumps. Slice the eggplants in half, then score a vertical line.
  4. Mix the cake flour, egg, ice cold water and 1 teaspoon sugar into a bowl. Heat the oil for deep-frying. Dredge the bitter melon and deep-fry in order.
  5. Only dredge one side for the shiso. Dredge the bottom half of the eggplants to fry.
  6. For the rest of the vegetables, dredge the whole thing to deep-fry.
  7. Dish it up. Serve with grated daikon radish, grated ginger and tentsuyu dipping sauce.
  8. Fluffy Bitter Melon and Egg. - - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/155688-fluffy-stir-fried-bitter-melon-and-eggs

For vegetable tempura, starchy root vegetables such as sweet potato, Kabocha squash, and lotus roots are most ideal. Other popular ingredients such as Japanese mushrooms (shiitake and oyster), eggplants, okra, shiso leaves, and shishito peppers are also suitable for frying in the batter. I wonder if tempura makes bitter melon easier to eat, or it is me that is getting used to bitter melon. I simply enjoyed it with Kosher salt. I also really liked the combination of bitter melon and tofu.

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