Tofu Tempura with Thick Nanban Style Sauce.
You can cook Tofu Tempura with Thick Nanban Style Sauce using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Tofu Tempura with Thick Nanban Style Sauce
- Prepare 200 grams of Tofu.
- You need 1/3 of Japanese leek.
- You need 1/2 tbsp of Sugar.
- You need 1 1/2 tbsp of Boiling water.
- It's 2 tbsp of Soy sauce.
- It's 2 tbsp of Mild vinegar.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of Honey.
- It's 1/2 tbsp of Ketchup.
- Prepare 1/2 of a chili pepper Sliced red chili peppers *.
- It's 3 tbsp of Tempura flour.
- Prepare 3 tbsp of Water.
- It's 1/2 tsp of Aonori.
- Prepare 1 of an appropriate amount Oil for deep frying.
Tofu Tempura with Thick Nanban Style Sauce step by step
- Slice the tofu into 1.5 cm thick bite size pieces, and drain all excess water with kitchen paper towels. Cut the leek into thin diagonal slices..
- Put the sugar and water into a heat-safe container and dissolve the sugar. When it's dissolved, add the soy sauce, vinegar, honey, ketchup and chili pepper and mix well, then add the leek..
- In a bowl mix the tempura flour, water and ao-nori seaweed, and dip the tofu from step 1 into this batter. Deep fry in oil heated to a rather high temperature until light and crisp..
- As soon as each tofu piece has been fried until light and crisp, immediately put into the container from Step 2, mix rapidly and transfer to a serving plate. (Attention: If you're too slow, the tempura coating will fall off the tofu!).
- If you have small children, you may want to omit the red chili pepper or add it without cutting it up....