It’s chicken tempura o’clock. If you’ve never tried one before, now is the time to do so. No doubt, you won’t be disappointed. You can visit a restaurant or cook it at home. If you don’t know how to prepare it, don’t worry. Below are simple and tasty recipes you can use as a guide in preparing chicken tempura.
What is Chicken Tempura?
You can easily guess that one primary ingredient for making chicken tempura is chicken. However, what is tempura? Tempura is an old style of frying that originated in Japan but was made popular by Portuguese missionaries in the 16th century. It involves food such as meat, seafood, and vegetables, coated in a batter before being deep-fried.
Tempura can be used in diverse ways. It can be used as an ingredient for making sushi rolls. For example, the onions or vegetables placed inside rolls can be fried in a tempura style.
Also, it can be a main dish. Often, you can take your tempura dish as a whole meal or even as a snack. How about adding a tempura-made dish to your main meal? You might want to have it as a side dish along with the main dish like rice or pair it with some sauce.
Tempura is a dynamic dish. There are various types, but the most common is shrimp tempura. You can also get a tempura vegetable. However, this article focuses on chicken tempura.
If you guessed that chicken tempura is chicken fried the tempura way, you are right. However, the difference between chicken tempura and the regular one is that chicken tempura isn’t only coated with batter but also covered with sauce or marinated. This cooking style was also invented in Oita Prefecture, Japan.
Another difference is the batter. While the batter used for regular tempura comprises milk, eggs, and water, chicken tempura batter is usually made of ice water, eggs, and flour. There is no hard and fast route to this, as you can get creative using the ingredients available.
The recipes below help solve the problem of using a one-way method for your tempura. Besides the recipe’s simplicity, the ingredients are also easy to find.
1. New style chicken tempura with tomato sauce
This new style of chicken tempura gives you a crispy flavor. As a bonus, it can be made with very simple ingredients.
As a deep-fried chicken tempura recipe, it requires you to chop and marinate your chicken, adding some crispy flour made of tempura powder and eggs, after which you go on to prepare your sauce with tomato, chicken powder, and tomato sauce. Don’t forget to add your vegetables for a balanced diet.
2. Sweet And Sour Sauce With Chicken Tempura
This is your go-to for a perfect combination of sweet and sour tastes. It is made of boneless and skinless breast chicken, dipped into the batter before frying. The batter is made by mixing salt, club soda, flour, corn starch, baking, onion, and garlic powder. The sauce is then made with a bit of cornstarch for thickness. All these processes can be done within 30 minutes.
3. Simple And Yummy Chicken Tempura
Do you want a simple yet crispy tempura chicken? Try this out. Soften your chicken breast and marinate it with a combination of brown sugar, sake/rice wine, cooking oil, black pepper, potato starch, ginger, and garlic.
After that, prepare the batter. You can then start coating your marinated meat in the batter. Deep-fry it on medium heat till golden brown. Your chicken tempura is ready to be savored.
4. Tempura Chicken With Crispy And Fluffy Tempura Batter
When you only have about twenty minutes and want to prepare your chicken tempura, this recipe is your go-to. The ingredients used are right in your kitchen, except maybe the cake flour. Marinate the tendered and cut chicken in an airtight container, and afterward, coat it with batter. Fry coated chickens for two minutes on both sides. Serve and relish each bite.
5. Best Snacking Chicken Tempura
Make your snack time more fun by trying this fast recipe. Prepare your batter by mixing all-purpose flour, corn flour, salt, garlic powder, black pepper, egg whites, and water. Also, make a dry mixture of black pepper, flour, and salt. Coat your chicken strips with the dry mixture and batter. Fry until it is golden brown. Enjoy your snacks with your favorite drinks and sauces.
6. Tempura chicken fingers
These Dutch oven-fried tempura chicken fingers are very easy and fast to make. It requires very few ingredients and is time-saving. All you have to do is prepare a mixture of all-purpose flour, baking soda, vinegar, salt, and water; coat your chicken tenders with the mix, and fry until it’s golden brown. It can be served and can be enjoyed as a weeknight meal.
7. Japanese Style Chicken Tempura
Firstly, marinate your boneless chicken with soy sauce, pepper powder, and salt. Secondly, prepare a dry mixture of all-purpose flour, corn starch, pepper powder, and salt.
Thirdly, make a batter without forgetting to add ice cubes and cold water. Place your marinated chicken in the batter and dry the mixture and deep-fry it. What’s the result? You get a puffed-up, crispy, juicy, and tender chicken.
8. Homemade Japanese Style Chicken Tempura
You don’t have to bother about snacking when you can make yourself a perfect, homemade Japanese-style chicken tempura. Beat out, cut, and season your chicken. Prepare the batter with cake flour, corn starch, beaten egg, and water. Make sure you don’t overmix it. Fry your chicken in batches and watch them turn golden brown. The result is delicate chicken fingers you can snack on.
9. Delicious Asian Chicken Tempura
You should try this recipe by Expert Kevin Long if you want a restaurant touch. Get a readily-made tempura flour and mix in your eggs and water. Set it aside and arrange tiny meat on chopsticks. Place them in the batter and deep-fry, swishing before dropping it. Once done, season it with kosher salt. Your chicken tempura is not yet complete until you dip them in Chipotle plum sauce.
10. Perfectly Fried Homemade Chicken Tempura
You don’t have to go to a restaurant before you enjoy a perfectly fried chicken tempura. Your first task is making the batter. Cake flour is recommended as it has less gluten.
Furthermore, to prevent it from getting gluten, it is recommended that you use chopsticks to avoid overmixing. Put your thinly sliced tempura chicken in cornstarch, followed by the light batter, and fry. You can serve it with dipping sauce or as a side dish.
11. Crispy Chicken Tempura
This recipe also follows the three-step preparatory methods. The first step is marinating chicken with soy sauce and other ingredients for one and half hours.
The dry mixture is the first to be prepared. Preparation of the second coating, which is the batter, should follow. This method is highlighted by coating the chicken in the dry mixture before dipping it in the liquid mixture. Deep-fry it, and your chicken tempura is ready.
12. Chicken Tempura With Asian Inspired Ingredients
Visitors can call in unexpectedly, or you might have a hurried party that leaves you at a loss for what to do. Here’s a simple recipe for you to make to everyone’s delight. Marinate your chicken tenders in a mixture of garlic, ginger, and soy sauce. Make a simple batter. After preparing the batter, dip the marinated chicken in it before deep-frying in batches.
13. Oita Standard Chicken Tempura
You don’t always have to mix your batter the general way. Place your bowl on another bowl filled with ice and mix your egg, cake flour, potato/corn starch, and some water. Pour your striped and seasoned chicken into the mixture and work it together. Place them in hot oil to fry for a few minutes. Once ready, spice it up with shredded cabbage, not leaving out your karoshi sauce.
14. Easy Chicken Tempura
As chicken tempura is a family’s delight, it doesn’t have to be made inside all the time. Take the frying smell out and try this recipe using your Blackstone griddle and a shallow pan. Cut your chicken into tiny long pieces and mix it into the batter until it’s all well coated. Pick the chicken and ensure the excess drops before putting the preheated oil in the shallow pan.
15. Easy, Crispy, Japanese Chicken Tempura
Beat, cut, and marinate your boneless chicken. Once that is done, make a batter of flour, corn starch, pepper, eggs, and water. Your dry coating is just corn starch. Dip marinated chicken in cornstarch, then in the batter. Deep-fry for a few minutes.
The best part about this recipe is that you can make your dipping sauce yourself using a combination of soy sauce, mirin, lemon juice, sugar, and ginger.
16. Authentic Japanese Chicken Tempura
Do you want to know what traditional chicken tempura looks and tastes like? Try this recipe. For the marinade, mix with chicken tenders, salt, black pepper, minced ginger and garlic, soy sauce, and sake.
Make the batter with cake flour, cornstarch, egg, and cold water. Afterward, place chicken tenders in the batter and deep-fry in oil for about four minutes. You can always have it along with some vegetables.
17. Unique Crispy Chicken Tempura
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With unique ingredients, you can make delicious chicken tempura. Make tempura sauce with vinegar, chili sauce, soy sauce, salt, black pepper, and red chili pepper.
Get your chicken marinated with the same ingredients, adding ginger and garlic, white pepper, and oil. Prepare your batter. After dipping your marinated chicken in the batter, coat it with bread crumbs and fry it till it turns golden. Serve with tempura sauce.
18. Airy And Juicy Chicken Tempura
If you are looking for a 55-minute recipe, here’s it. While twenty minutes goes into your preparation, the frying should be done in thirty-five minutes.
The ingredients needed include a pound of skinless and boneless chicken breasts, a beaten egg, all-purpose flour, cornstarch, lemon juice, paprika, baking soda, salt, chilled club soda, and oil for frying. Make your batter and dip your chicken strips into it before putting it in 350 degrees F preheated oil.
19. Chicken Tempura With Homemade Tempura Batter
Make crispy chicken tempura using this recipe. Firstly marinate your chicken with vinegar, ginger and garlic paste, green chili paste, black pepper, chicken powder, and salt.
Mix corn flour, black pepper, baking powder, egg white, and chilled soda to form a medium-thick batter. Dip your chicken in cornstarch and tempura batter before frying in preheated oil. Make sure you savor every piece.
20. Chicken Bites Tempura Style
Unlike the regular chicken tempura cut in long tiny pieces, you cut boneless chicken breast into small bite sizes for this recipe. To make the batter, mix self-rising flour, cumin, paprika, salt, and warm water.
While you can use any oil to fry, canola oil is more suitable for this recipe. Dip each batter-coated chicken bite into the oil, which must have been preheated in a deep fryer or frying pan. Your chicken tempura is ready.
21. Latin Style Tempura Chicken Wings
This recipe is a far cry from others. However, it’s still chicken tempura, in a Latin style. Chicken wings are used in place of chicken breasts. A bit of vodka is added to the batter. The chicken wings are dipped into the batter and transferred to a preheated oil seasoned with adobo and Sassoon.
22. Super Crispy Chicken Tempura
Addictive, easy, crispy and fluffy, juicy, and appetizing with a restaurant touch, this recipe is undoubtedly one of the best. Marinate with soy sauce, ginger and garlic, salt, egg yolks, all-purpose flour, cornstarch, and, very importantly, ice cold water. Make the batter and separate a little, adding more water. Sprinkle it on the chicken before frying to get a more crispy and mesh-like texture.
Conclusion
Which recipe will you try out first? Cooking doesn’t have to be boring, especially for a sumptuous dish like chicken tempura. You can be experimental and adventurous when preparing it and even go beyond the various recipes listed above. You can combine recipes too. The differences are in speed, ingredients, method, and taste.
