Crossword clues for tempura
tempura
- Seafood serving
- Deep-fried Japanese dish
- Japanese entree
- Fried veggies dish
- Fried Japanese dish
- Deep-fried recipe
- Shrimp ___ (Japanese restaurant offering)
- Japanese fast food
- Japanese deep-fried vegetables
- Japanese batter
- Fried veggie dish
- Eastern entrée
- Deep-fried Far East dish
- Crispy order at a Japanese restaurant
- Batter-fried shrimp or veggies in a Japanese restaurant
- Batter-dipped dish
- Teriyaki alternative
- Japanese dish
- Japanese restaurant offering
- (Japanese) vegetables and seafood dipped in batter and deep-fried
- Fried food, in Tokyo
- Japanese deep-fried fare
- Seafood fritters, Japanese style
- Vegetables and seafood deep-fried in batter
- Meal includes stewed rump and fried seafood
- Calorie-free crumpet, battered - a deep-fried speciality
- King left upmarket version of fried fish
- Food and drink for entertaining politician leading old city
- Almost time for original, American deep-fried food
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1920, from Japanese, probably from Portuguese tempero "seasoning."
Wiktionary
n. A dish made by deep-frying vegetables, seafood, or other foods in a light batter.
WordNet
n. vegetables and seafood dipped in batter and deep-fried
Wikipedia
is a Japanese dish of seafood or vegetables that have been battered and deep fried.
Usage examples of "tempura".
Clear soup, sashimi, a dozen kinds of sushi, tempura vegetables, chicken teriyaki, steamed rice, sukiyaki with more kinds of vegetables than Kirk had been able to identify, shrimp custard, a fabulous lemon-soy tofu salad--he let his mind dwell on each dish, savoring the details of aroma and texture and flavor.
Some of the food he found exciting, tempura and yakitori, bite-sized pieces of chicken that were grilled with a sweet and salty sauce.
The tempura was good, and the chilled Vouvray started to take the edge off his feelings of guilt about Sunny.
She stopped at a foursome two booths down and served two plates of steamed seafood in kelp boats, plus one of chilled noodles with peanut-miso sauce and another of a variety of meats and vegetables deep-fried tempura style.
The air conditioner carried a fresh whiff of the tempura to the young preacher, and his mouth watered in anticipation.
Wet coatings, such as tempura batter, are delicious, too, though they are a little more trouble to apply.
This medieval market street is a quarter mile long, roofed over with red, green, and yellow awnings, and lined with 141 specialized shops selling raw and cooked foods, seaweed and rice and tofu of every description, fresh-roasted tea, sashimi knives, whiskey, pickles, and more fish than in an average-sized oceana hundred species in cases and tanks, pickled, dried, and salted fish in barrels and trays, fish being grilled over charcoal, fried as tempura, or cut into sushi.
My sea change was helped along by the appearance of an unexpected typhoon in the East China Sea, which for several days tossed our ship about as if it were a tiny morsel of tempura in a cauldron of boiling oil.
Now, for the first time, I tasted them freshsweet and crunchy arid tenderin a restaurant on the outskirts of Kyoto called Kinsuitei that serves, in thatched pavilions along a shaded lake, a many-course lunch of fresh bamboo: bamboo grilled on bamboo skewers, bamboo shredded with seaweed, bamboo sliced like sashimi with a soy-based dipping sauce, bamboo floating in soup, bamboo simmered in broth, bamboo deep-fried as tempura, and bamboo chopped in rice.
He hated sushi, tempura, teriyaki steak, sake and could not operate a pair of chopsticks to save his life.