Definition of tempura
: seafood or vegetables dipped in batter and fried in deep fat
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Have a bite or two to go with a drink, like Karat ($4), pickled carrots dipped in tempura batter and fried crisp, or Chips Toodaloo ($4), perfect, thin potato chips lined up in onion dip.
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Those extras are part of Miku’s tempura and teriyaki entrees, too.
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Furin also offers bento boxes, which offer an array of foods, such as tempura made of sweet potatoes, butter squash, zucchini and onion, as well as shrimp, Wang said.
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Try the Harborside’s tempura version of this New England classic.
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The deep-fried sides were cooked textbook-perfect — tempura onions rings were crunchy but not greasy; fries were golden and crispy.
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The chewy buns were filled with not-so-spicy Korean chicken and tempura fish on our visit.
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At Abe Fisher, Sichel stuffs a whitefish salad riff — hot-smoked fish folded into cream cheese — into squash blossoms (when seasonal), which are then tempura fried.
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Remove excess tempura and return chicken to the seasoned flour.
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Origin and Etymology of tempura
Japanese tenpura
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Definition of tempura for English Language Learners
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: a Japanese dish that is made of seafood or vegetables that are covered in batter and fried
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