Tempura Fried Shishito Peppers
Tempura Fried Shishito Peppers

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, tempura fried shishito peppers. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Tempura Fried Shishito Peppers is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Tempura Fried Shishito Peppers is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

I added a shishito pepper plant to my garden for the first time this year and it may just be my most prolific vegetable this season. I usually sauté or roast the peppers with soy sauce and other seasonings, but opted to try frying the most recent batch for Shishito Tempura (ししとう 天ぷら). Frying shishito peppers in a thin beer tempura batter, gives them a light crunchy coating and accentuates their natural smoky essence.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have tempura fried shishito peppers using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Tempura Fried Shishito Peppers:
  1. Make ready Shishito Peppers
  2. Get flour
  3. Get corn meal
  4. Make ready corn starch
  5. Take baking powder
  6. Prepare salt
  7. Prepare light beer
  8. Take sunflower oil (or other cooking oil)

It is Shishito Season and you need to be eating this delightful pepper. If you aren't familiar with this pepper, we see them here in the Midwest. Tempura is a popular Japanese deep-fried seafood/vegetables encased in a light yet crisp batter. Learn how to make perfect tempura at home!

Steps to make Tempura Fried Shishito Peppers:
  1. Pour oil into a large rimmed cast iron pan and heat. I like sunflower 🌻 oil because of it’s high (450•) smoking point and neutral flavor, but any oil will do. Just get it hot as possible without any popping or smoking.
  2. Mix flour, corn meal, corn starch, baking powder, and salt into a large mixing bowl, pour in beer and incorporate into a batter
  3. Dip peppers in batter and fry them in oil until golden brown. I did batches of 8 to keep them manageable. The peppers will float, so keep tings ready to flip them over and cook both sides
  4. Using tongs, shake off, place them on a paper towel covered baking sheet to cool, and sprinkle with salt 🧂 immediately.
  5. WOW! You just made an elevated appetizer or crispy snack to share with your friends! They must love you! Consider serving with Sriracha to dip :)

Shishito peppers are an East Asian variety with a delicate crisp texture and generally mild, sweet flavor. Coating them in a light, lacy tempura batter accomplishes that but adds a delightfully crispy Drop the peppers into the batter and coat thoroughly. Then deep fry in batches until the coating is. Shishito peppers are a favorite snack food in Japan, where this thin-skinned mild breed of pepper was developed. While similar to the Spanish Padrone, the shishito has a distinctive flavor and appearance all its own.

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