I lived in Japan as a teen, first job was in a Tempura-ya. I later worked in Japanese restaurants for years. Your recipe and technique are very authentic and done well. So many "amateurs" forget to mention the ice-cubes in the water, and/or they overmix it. Icey COLD batter causes the batter to really crisp up in the hot oil. I love that you didnt peal the skins, also quit typical. Tempura does NOT mean seasoning...the origin of the name actually comes from the Latin 'ad tempora cuaresme,' meaning “in the time of Lent.” The Portuguese missionaries/priests taught and requested their Japanese cooks to prepare this "Tempora" meal as they were not allowed to eat meat during Fridays and during Lent. So the original Tempura was in fact a Lenten meal, and always vegetables. ITEDAKEMASU!
Hi Ken, your explanation of the Latin root of the word “tempura “ does have truth to it. Still is was from Portuguese influence that this and other words or their variations are used in Japan. In Portugal (present day) the verb Temperar means the action of seasoning something. Also the noun Tempero meaning the savory taste.
I do love your videos. They are concise, easy to follow, and I especially love the factual information regarding ingredients, history of the recipes themselves, preparation pointers, and little-known facts about ingredients. In another video you mentioned that sesame seeds were indigestible unless crushed. I have always toasted and crushed them simply because the aroma of the crushed seeds is so pleasant and my mother has always done it that way. I just didn't know why! Love the tip about the water in the shrimp tails. Never knew that, either - and the tip about loosening the muscles.
glad you enjoy my trivial tips too!! thats how I try to differentiate my videos from those professional cooking videos like Gordon, since I am not professionally trained, but just a home chef!!
Thank you for letting us see the logistics of this, the amounts and how to extend this to have food for the next day! Definitely helpful to get the procedure shown as you just did there. I have the kitchen implements and all but have been a bit intimidated by lack of experience 😅 Keep this going! You already helped me to overcome dread of smell and texture of natto and have me crave it every day. And showing us round your parents' house, you took the same care to explain every day things to people unfamiliar with them to an extent I appreciate a lot!
Your presentation about how to cook the food very good.I like japanese food.I will follow you and look for all of your previous clips. THAK YOU from USA
Taji, Thank you so much for your string of interesting, thought provoking, challednging ways to explore different areas of japanese home cooking. I am still recovering from a two year break, related to COVID and social and physical restrictions, in my regular tasting and delighting in Japanese in house and take out meals.So I hooked onto Taji's Kitchen, as a way of learning basic techniques of Japanese home cooking, learning basic pickling techniques and some elementaay dishes. Now I have now learned the correct method for home preparation of tempura mixed fish and vegetables, my ultimate delight in take -out Japanese meals, all thanks to watching a sequence of your delightful, delicious, and informative videos! Arigato gozaimasu!
I am sorry to hear that you are still recovering form the difficulties caused by the Covid. but thank YOU so much for such nice and encouraging comment!! dou itashi mashite!! so glad to know, that my work is making some people happy and appreciate Japanese cooking!!
Hello Taiji, i just came accross your videos a couple of days back and since then watched a dozen of them in succession..... Your videos are very professionally made.. it really appreciated the kind of home cooking you do all by yourself staying in Germany... The history/background of each recipe you narrate is very interesting... Your hand skills are excellent !! And the most important part i like is you don't waste any ingredients... Your work is neat and clean, and the wholeheartedness and respect for food is really appreciated.... All in all great job and keep going.... Love from India......,❤️🙏🙏
Yum!!! I can't wait to make this food style my main diet. Very nice to see the subtleties of preparation...not to mention the attire! I think there must have been a life or two as Asian. I like Sumi-e also.
So cool to see you peel and do the shrimp. I just found your channel this morning and I am so enjoying it. Cannot wait to make some of the food. I just made my first homemade tempeh.
Boy do I love your videos. Efficient, to the point, on the ball, easy to understand just simply brilliant. Then of course.... The deliciousness on a mother level. Love your videos. THANK YOU 💖💯💐
😋 Mmm my favorite Tampura 🍤🥞🥢🍶🍵🍥🍜🥟🍣🍘🍙🍚🥡🍢🍡💓 my blonde 3rd grandma was Postugese I spoke in Spanish to her before learning English. Calamari means fryed 🦑 in Greek.
Thanks Taiji San, loves your precise way of cooking crispy tempura. It makes me to start cooking what exactly I have in my fridge this coming weekend..Arigatou gozaimasu💖👨🍳
Some teachers and I are having a get together. I’m sure this delicious concoction of yours will really please their innards!! Thank you! You are so sweet! I like how you enjoyed your meal. Greetings from a Polish Australian!
I love tempura. One of my favorite dishes. Nice to know my people of Portugal could possibly have had a hand in the recipe. Thank you for another awesome video. I also love the ritual of tying up your sleeves. Awesome job. Thank you again. Many blessings!
I so love the way you prepare them. Very down to earth. Not all materials we have at home and am glad you're teaching us to substitute. My 2nd time to watch. Am going to prepare tempura today. More power to your channel 👍💐
Omg … I love and love Tempura . If I could eat Tempura often I would love that … this is what I like since I am a vegetarian/pescatarian … I just don’t eat chicken or any type of meats. Again … I love this video and you are the best ❤️
Just discovered your channel last night and we love your videos! My son and I are so excited to cook more food 😊 He keeps telling me to save all the ingredients after watching 😄 Simple ,easy to follow and very informative ♥️ Thank you !
I'm so glad I found your channel. I love to gorge on Japanese food and we would visit a Japanese restaurant many times when we were in Kuwait. Now that I'm back in my small hometown in India, where there are no Japanese restaurants I miss the food. Thanks to you, I can cook all these delicacies now.
I love tempura it’s really good, I think in Hawaii a friend took us to a Japanese restaurant and they also used whole green beans dipped in the batter and fried.
I lived in Japan as a very little girl, we have always cooked Japanese recipes at home, and now I continue on. Love the channel too, subscribed! Also the sound effect - so Japanese! On every video I have watched, I try to open the link to the sound effect, but it always returns no result, would love to find it as well ❤🙏
I just discovered your channel! Excellent! You make it look easy to follow! Makes me miss when I lived in Japan! I look forward to following more of your video presentations! 😀
I think your channel on life in Japan in your home is a great privilege. Thank you for sharing. I did learn how to stop the prawns from curling Must try it
Hi, I have seen your channel recently and find it very interesting and educational. Loved the video on Japanese table manners and now this one on how to make tempura from scratch and the correct way to cut and prepare the different types of things for frying. You are right about the origin of the word “tempura” and the root Latin word explained by another viewer is also correct . Present day: in Portugal “to season” verb is “temperar”. The noun “tempero” is referring to the taste of something that has been seasoned.
Love your cooking great recipe done correctly specially your method so precise in many many way I love every step by step of your cooking so appealing thank you so much watching you is great experience thank you I am glad you on it keep up the great method of Japanese style so wow. I am proud of you thank you have a great journey on your teaching recipe. God bless you and the world.
I used to cook Tempura for my husband... I read and studied everything I could. It was very challenging to make something that was not of my home culture, but I knew about the ice and need to keep the batter cool. It is difficult to know when I am cooking things properly when I've never had it at a restaurant. I also experimented with various sauces.
I've gotta try the sweet potato 🍠 & the Pumpkin 🎃 Tampura it sounds delicious 😋🤤 I love sweet potato casserole or pumpkin pie 🥧 with lots of extra cloves & cinnamon extra butter 🧈 the crust like a sugar cookie
Thanks this kind of vlog so cool and i love watching this kind more information simple but i learn more nutritious food prepared ideas technique he he he i enjoy kon'nichiwa oishi the way you speak i feel you are kind hearted and good teacher chef👨🍳
Keine Kommentare in deutscher Sprache? Tempura im Restaurant ist gerne mal zu fett. Die angeg. Temperatur für das Öl ist für mich jetzt der Ausschlag zum Selbermachen. Das Vorgehen wird in allen Videos so gut erklärt.....Vielen Dank, dass Sie die japanische Küche uns Langnasen so viel näher bringen. Herzlichen Gruß, Maria
I like everything about you videos. Your explanations are perfect for me a Westerner who doesn’t know anything about Japanese cooking. Do you have written recipes posted on the internet that I can print and follow?
@taiji can you make a link on where to buy the products from? I think everything would taste better is we get Japanese brands. Thank you for your videos...its making me hungry 😋
In the video, you said, "baking soda" when you actually use a baking powder packet. The two are totally different, so I will go with baking powder as being correct.
I lived in Japan as a teen, first job was in a Tempura-ya. I later worked in Japanese restaurants for years. Your recipe and technique are very authentic and done well. So many "amateurs" forget to mention the ice-cubes in the water, and/or they overmix it. Icey COLD batter causes the batter to really crisp up in the hot oil. I love that you didnt peal the skins, also quit typical.
Tempura does NOT mean seasoning...the origin of the name actually comes from the Latin 'ad tempora cuaresme,' meaning “in the time of Lent.” The Portuguese missionaries/priests taught and requested their Japanese cooks to prepare this "Tempora" meal as they were not allowed to eat meat during Fridays and during Lent.
So the original Tempura was in fact a Lenten meal, and always vegetables. ITEDAKEMASU!
Hi Ken, your explanation of the Latin root of the word “tempura “ does have truth to it. Still is was from Portuguese influence that this and other words or their variations are used in Japan. In Portugal (present day) the verb Temperar means the action of seasoning something. Also the noun Tempero meaning the savory taste.
@@anacoutinho4012 that's interesting. Thanks. 🤔 I wonder now the etymology of the word.
Either way....tempura is delicious! 😋😋
Very informative comment 👍
I do love your videos. They are concise, easy to follow, and I especially love the factual information regarding ingredients, history of the recipes themselves, preparation pointers, and little-known facts about ingredients. In another video you mentioned that sesame seeds were indigestible unless crushed. I have always toasted and crushed them simply because the aroma of the crushed seeds is so pleasant and my mother has always done it that way. I just didn't know why! Love the tip about the water in the shrimp tails. Never knew that, either - and the tip about loosening the muscles.
glad you enjoy my trivial tips too!!
thats how I try to differentiate my videos from those professional cooking videos like Gordon, since I am not professionally trained, but just a home chef!!
Same here 🤗👌
Hallo danke für die tollen Videos schöne Grüße
Thank you for letting us see the logistics of this, the amounts and how to extend this to have food for the next day! Definitely helpful to get the procedure shown as you just did there. I have the kitchen implements and all but have been a bit intimidated by lack of experience 😅 Keep this going! You already helped me to overcome dread of smell and texture of natto and have me crave it every day. And showing us round your parents' house, you took the same care to explain every day things to people unfamiliar with them to an extent I appreciate a lot!
Your presentation about how to cook the food very good.I like japanese food.I will follow you and look for all of your previous clips.
THAK YOU from USA
Greetings from New Zealand! 熊本に生まれて、インドネシアから来ました。日本料理が1番大好きですよ！Share してくれて本当にありがとうございます！😊
おおお〜、日本人で見てくれてる人がいるんですね！
嬉しいです！今後もよろしくお願いしま〜す！
何かリクエスト/アイデアがあったら、教えてくださ〜〜い！
New subscriber from Philippines..I love cooking and I love to learn more of Japanese cuisine❤️Looking forward for more videos..
You are easy to follow without complications, your instructions are simple and clear. Love it.
I’ve been salivating over this video. Thanks for all the tips. Love, love Japanese food.
It's always a joy to watch your videos. Even for things I already know, I'd like to hear you say it in another way. I also learn new things from you.
Taji, Thank you so much for your string of interesting, thought provoking, challednging ways to explore different areas of japanese home cooking. I am still recovering from a two year break, related to COVID and social and physical restrictions, in my regular tasting and delighting in Japanese in house and take out meals.So I hooked onto Taji's Kitchen, as a way of learning basic techniques of Japanese home cooking, learning basic pickling techniques and some elementaay dishes. Now I have now learned the correct method for home preparation of tempura mixed fish and vegetables, my ultimate delight in take -out Japanese meals, all thanks to watching a sequence of your delightful, delicious, and informative videos! Arigato gozaimasu!
I am sorry to hear that you are still recovering form the difficulties caused by the Covid. but thank YOU so much for such nice and encouraging comment!!
dou itashi mashite!! so glad to know, that my work is making some people happy and appreciate Japanese cooking!!
Now am really craving Japanese food 😋
Hello Taiji, i just came accross your videos a couple of days back and since then watched a dozen of them in succession..... Your videos are very professionally made.. it really appreciated the kind of home cooking you do all by yourself staying in Germany... The history/background of each recipe you narrate is very interesting... Your hand skills are excellent !! And the most important part i like is you don't waste any ingredients... Your work is neat and clean, and the wholeheartedness and respect for food is really appreciated.... All in all great job and keep going....
Love from India......,❤️🙏🙏
Wow! Its mouth watering.
Yum!!! I can't wait to make this food style my main diet. Very nice to see the subtleties of preparation...not to mention the attire! I think there must have been a life or two as Asian. I like Sumi-e also.
So cool to see you peel and do the shrimp. I just found your channel this morning and I am so enjoying it. Cannot wait to make some of the food. I just made my first homemade tempeh.
Boy do I love your videos. Efficient, to the point, on the ball, easy to understand just simply brilliant. Then of course.... The deliciousness on a mother level. Love your videos. THANK YOU 💖💯💐
Love watching your show...i love Tempura..thank you!
I Love your videos more than words can say. Thank you for your beautiful cooking 🍳 🥘 lessons.🌹🍱🇯🇵💐🦋
😋 Mmm my favorite Tampura 🍤🥞🥢🍶🍵🍥🍜🥟🍣🍘🍙🍚🥡🍢🍡💓 my blonde 3rd grandma was Postugese I spoke in Spanish to her before learning English. Calamari means fryed 🦑 in Greek.
I love Tempura! It’s my favorite! Yours looks wonderful. Thank u for this great recipe.
I 💕 love the technique 🇯🇵 so professional so pretty accurate cuts
Thanks Taiji San, loves your precise way of cooking crispy tempura. It makes me to start cooking what exactly I have in my fridge this coming weekend..Arigatou gozaimasu💖👨🍳
I love tempura dishes❤❤❤
Some teachers and I are having a get together. I’m sure this delicious concoction of yours will really please their innards!! Thank you! You are so sweet! I like how you enjoyed your meal. Greetings from a Polish Australian!
I love tempura. One of my favorite dishes. Nice to know my people of Portugal could possibly have had a hand in the recipe. Thank you for another awesome video. I also love the ritual of tying up your sleeves. Awesome job. Thank you again. Many blessings!
Wow. I'm going to actually try this. Thank you.
I so love the way you prepare them. Very down to earth. Not all materials we have at home and am glad you're teaching us to substitute. My 2nd time to watch. Am going to prepare tempura today. More power to your channel 👍💐
Omg … I love and love Tempura . If I could eat Tempura often I would love that … this is what I like since I am a vegetarian/pescatarian … I just don’t eat chicken or any type of meats.
Again … I love this video and you are the best ❤️
Just discovered your channel last night and we love your videos! My son and I are so excited to cook more food 😊 He keeps telling me to save all the ingredients after watching 😄 Simple ,easy to follow and very informative ♥️ Thank you !
I'm so glad I found your channel. I love to gorge on Japanese food and we would visit a Japanese restaurant many times when we were in Kuwait. Now that I'm back in my small hometown in India, where there are no Japanese restaurants I miss the food. Thanks to you, I can cook all these delicacies now.
I love tempura it’s really good, I think in Hawaii a friend took us to a Japanese restaurant and they also used whole green beans dipped in the batter and fried.
This food looks delicious
Awesome education on the shrimp, thank you!
You really are a wonderful cook......thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
You make cooking so easy, most importantly the ingredients are not hard to find.
I lived in Japan as a very little girl, we have always cooked Japanese recipes at home, and now I continue on. Love the channel too, subscribed! Also the sound effect - so Japanese! On every video I have watched, I try to open the link to the sound effect, but it always returns no result, would love to find it as well ❤🙏
It looks so delicious!😋
Greetings from Portugal, the inspiration to tempura. The portuguese word "Temperar" means to season
Love the way u present Japanese culture.....I'm fall in love with Japan
I just discovered your channel! Excellent! You make it look easy to follow! Makes me miss when I lived in Japan! I look forward to following more of your video presentations! 😀
Looks positively fabulous!
This dish looks absolutely delicious 🧡💚🧡
I think your channel on life in Japan in your home is a great privilege. Thank you for sharing. I did learn how to stop the prawns from curling Must try it
You are a GREAT and funny teacher !! So cute and perfect !! Many THANKS from Indian Ocean !
Hi, I have seen your channel recently and find it very interesting and educational. Loved the video on Japanese table manners and now this one on how to make tempura from scratch and the correct way to cut and prepare the different types of things for frying. You are right about the origin of the word “tempura” and the root Latin word explained by another viewer is also correct . Present day: in Portugal “to season” verb is “temperar”. The noun “tempero” is referring to the taste of something that has been seasoned.
Love your cooking great recipe done correctly specially your method so precise in many many way I love every step by step of your cooking so appealing thank you so much watching you is great experience thank you I am glad you on it keep up the great method of Japanese style so wow. I am proud of you thank you have a great journey on your teaching recipe. God bless you and the world.
It's insane how Portugal is the furthest country from Japan and vice versa and yet have so much influence on eachother.
You make it sound so simple, easy and delicious!!! May be I should try making tempura like the way you do!
I was always afraid frying tempura. 😁😁😁
Love your videos!
thanx so much!!
glad you enjoy it!!
Really like this, I am gonna make it by myself, I think I can👍🏻
Glad you like it!!
and thanx for your comment!!
I used to cook Tempura for my husband... I read and studied everything I could. It was very challenging to make something that was not of my home culture, but I knew about the ice and need to keep the batter cool. It is difficult to know when I am cooking things properly when I've never had it at a restaurant. I also experimented with various sauces.
Enjoyable and informative. Like the historical notes too. Thanks
I am going through and binge watching your content.
I've gotta try the sweet potato 🍠 & the Pumpkin 🎃 Tampura it sounds delicious 😋🤤 I love sweet potato casserole or pumpkin pie 🥧 with lots of extra cloves & cinnamon extra butter 🧈 the crust like a sugar cookie
I really like your vlog all the food it's delicious
Delicious and healthy meal, thanks for some tips!!.
Amazing ! learning tricks in preparing the tempura
Wonderful. Thanks Chef🙏🏽 for your recipe
Great. Video .your food looked delicious.I have always wanted to know how to make tempura. Thanks😍
Thanks this kind of vlog so cool and i love watching this kind more information simple but i learn more nutritious food prepared ideas technique he he he i enjoy kon'nichiwa oishi the way you speak i feel you are kind hearted and good teacher chef👨🍳
Thank you so much for your details , clear and simple instructions
You teach good idea do so very important start wow not easy but when you show how to do it beautifully
Excellent very well displayed thank you made it easy for me as love cooking I love your videos
At no point would I evet think of cutting the tip of a prawn. Thank you, that looks so good!
Lovely food. We mainly eat these as snacks. And many of us use gram flour. Which makes these taste way better than using plain flour.
You offer such practical suggestions. I like the way you cook. You make it look so easy. Practice makes perfect, I guess. Very clever, indeed!
Came for hous tour videos, stay for the recipe 😋
Watching from Fiji. Besides learning so much, i find your videos are so relaxing. Plus I "lurve" Japanese food.
Hello from Liverpool GB. Love this recipe!
My favorite tempura is surimi, sticks, (imitation crab sticks)… so delicious!
Thanks for tempura recipe.. wanted to get the homemade one ❤ Greetings from Spain.
😋 Looks nice!
hahaha, danke!!
pls give it a try, it tastes nice as well!!
@@taijiskitchen I‘ll do that for sure
I love these vids! Very informative! And entertaining!
Good info tempura originated from Portugal. 👏 I love tempura
Will you make video on Japanese dipping Sauces? I would live to see one!
Tempura daisuki desu.. Takusan yasai wo tsukatte tsukutte mimasu... Arigatou gozaimasu 💝
douitashi mashite--!
Love your videos very thorough
I'm going to make tempura tonight.
Tampura making me hungry...
Mmm 😋 Tampura 🍤🥞🥢🍶🇯🇵😋 lobster 🦞 or Lobsta in Boston 😋
Looks so good
Thank you and God bless you.
Keine Kommentare in deutscher Sprache?
Tempura im Restaurant ist gerne mal zu fett. Die angeg. Temperatur für das Öl ist für mich jetzt der Ausschlag zum Selbermachen. Das Vorgehen wird in allen Videos so gut erklärt.....Vielen Dank, dass Sie die japanische Küche uns Langnasen so viel näher bringen.
Herzlichen Gruß, Maria
I really like your video ;w;
oh, thank you so so much!!
thanks.👍💖
Just came across ur vid, so interesting. U got a new sub ☺😋
I thought Tempura is shrimp,..but here you have vegetables tempura.Ill do that thanks.
I’m surprised you didn’t peel the potato and pumpkin. Interesting. Thank you.
in Japan we usually don't peal the potatoes and pumpkin. most veggies we don't peal, when they are eaten cooked.
Please show videos of different ways of tofu cooking and preparations. Please and thank you, Sir.
ONAKA IPAII 🥰 JOZU NE 🤩 FROM THE PHILIPPINES 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭😍😍😍
I put grated daikon in my tempura sauce you should try
great you know about grated daikon!
yes, often Tempura is served with that in Japan!
Food is colourful Japanese food 🥝 டிEmpura
I like everything about you videos. Your explanations are perfect for me a Westerner who doesn’t know anything about Japanese cooking. Do you have written recipes posted on the internet that I can print and follow?
no unfortunately.
just this UA-cam channel.
I love your videos.
@taiji can you make a link on where to buy the products from? I think everything would taste better is we get Japanese brands. Thank you for your videos...its making me hungry 😋
Looks nice yummy
Very healthy
Well done video.
i am so glad you enjoyed it!!
Se me hace agua 💧 la boca 👄!!!
It look so gut 😉 i have to try it 🤗
In the video, you said, "baking soda" when you actually use a baking powder packet. The two are totally different, so I will go with baking powder as being correct.
yes, as you guessed, I meant to say baking powder, but wrongly said baking soda. thanx for pointing out!
Thanks 👍
Awesome
thank you.