Authentic Tendon Recipe Japan, Asia

Tendon is a simple Japanese rice dish from a large donburi group, which combines cooked or steamed rice topped with seafood and vegetables deep-fried in tempura batter, and drizzled with a special, sweet-savory tentsuyu sauce. All the ingredients are served in a single bowl, and the preparation starts with cooking or steaming the rice, usually the short-grained varieties with a slightly sticky texture. Next, the tentsuyu sauce is prepared by boiling Japanese fish stock dashi, rice wine mirin, soy sauce, and sugar, and simmering until slightly thickened. The final and the most sensitive step is the tempura. The shrimps or prawns are shelled and deveined, while the vegetables are cut into thin slices. After being sprinkled with flour, the tempura ingredients are dipped in a batter which usually consists of tempura flour, water and, sometimes, egg. It is essential that both the tempura ingredients and the batter are ice-cold ... Read more