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天ぷら (てんぷら, Tenpura) is Tempura — a Japanese food (ways of food preparation).
What is Tempura?
Tempura consists usually of seafood or vegetables that have been battered and deep fried. Cooked bits of tempura are either eaten with dipping sauce, salted without sauce, or used to assemble other dishes. Tempura is commonly served with grated daikon and eaten hot immediately after frying. In Japan, it is often found in bowls of soba or udon soup often in the form of a shrimp, shiso leaf, or fritter. The most common sauce is tentsuyu sauce (roughly three parts dashi , one part mirin , and one part shōyu ). Alternatively, tempura may be sprinkled with sea salt before eating. Mixtures of powdered green tea and salt or yuzu and salt are also used. Kakiage is a type of tempura made with mixed vegetable strips, such as onion, carrot, and burdock, and sometimes including shrimp or squid, which are deep fried as small round fritters. Tempura is also used in combination with other foods. When served over soba (buckwheat noodles), it is called tempura-soba or tensoba[?] . Tempura is also served as a donburi dish in which tempura shrimp and vegetables are served over steamed rice in a bowl, called tendon , and on top of udon soup ( tempura-udon[?] ).