Dandelion Tempura with Curry Salt (vegan)

Ever since learned that dandelion vegetation are edible, I would been attempting to search out them; this morning I discovered out the vegetation in the yard, so I made up my strategies to make tempura.

Tempura is largely the most efficient and tastiest technique to eat bitter greens. In Japan, the wild herbs in the spring, similar to Fuki (butterbar shoot) and Tsukushi (horsetail), both of them rather bitter, are in general eaten as tempura.

Tempura batter is frequently made with flour, water, and egg yolk, but in Shojin delicacies (Eastern vegetarian), the batter is made without an egg, and or no longer it’s gentle and more uncomplicated to prepare.

After I make Shojin tempura, I in general add some rice flour, too. This helps to lighten the batter as rice flour does no longer make gluten.

For condiment, I blended a piece of of curry powder and salt so as to add some spiciness, but it unquestionably’s also correct to eat merely with lawful a minute salt.

The dandelion vegetation and leaves have been considerable as tempura. We can try it with other edible spring herbs, too.

—Kyoko Ide

Instructions

1. Mix the salt and curry powder, and web page apart. Wash the dandelion vegetation and leaves, and pat dry with a cooking towel or paper towel.
2. Originate heating the oil. Meanwhile, mix the flour and rice flour and mix neatly. Add the water and mix roughly with a skedaddle, being cautious no longer to combine too out of the ordinary so as that it does no longer make gluten.
3. To study the temperature of the oil, fry a tiny drop of batter. When the drop barely reaches the underside of the pot and is derived up to the skin soon, it’s about 170 °C (340 °F), which is the lawful temperature. If it touches the underside and is leisurely to device motivate up, the oil is not very any longer hot satisfactory. If the batter splashes on the skin, it’s too hot.
   
4. Dip simplest the underside of the flower in the batter and flower for roughly 10 seconds. To fry the leaves, dip your entire leaf in the batter, effort off the extra at the threshold of the mixture bowl, and fry for a pair of seconds. Abet straight with the curry salt.