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Tempura - Deep Fried Plaice Recipe.
The flounder and American Plaice have sweet, delicate white flesh that chefs and consumers everywhere enjoy: low fat, fine-textured meat and delicate mild flavor. The combined nutrient strengths of flounder make it an outstanding food for helping stabilize blood sugar, may protect against ischemic stroke, may reduce risk of heart arrhythmia, preventing cholesterol from clogging arteries, may protect against leukemia, multiple myeloma, lymphoma and kidney cancer.
Flounder, 1 fillet (4.5 oz. / 127g) provides Calories: 148, Protein: 30.7g, Carbohydrate: 0.0g, Total Fat: 1.9g, Fiber: 0.0g, Selenium: 74mcg, Vitamin B12: 3.2mcg, Potassium: 437mg, Vitamin B6: 0.30mg. 0.657 grams of omega-3 fatty acids, derived from Eicosapentaenoic Acid: 0.309g, Docosahexaenoic Acid: 0.328g, and Alpha Lipoic Acid: 0.020g is improving the ratio of good cholesterol to bad cholesterol.
Deep Fried Plaice Recipe - Japanese recipe how to cook (deep fry) Tempura with plaice fillets, asparagus tips, sweet potato, shiitake mushrooms, and spring onions in batter (egg yolk, iced water, and plain flour). Could be prepared and cooked for 35 minutes.
Ingredients:
- 4 thin fresh Plaice fillets (about 4-6 ounces each), skinned and halved lengthways
- 16 asparagus tips
- 1 long, red-fleshed, sweet potato, peeled
- 8 shiitake mushrooms
- 8 spring onions
- Sunflower oil for deep-frying
- Soy sauce, tamari sauce or Tempura dipping sauce, to serve
Batter Ingredients:
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 cup iced water
- 1/2 cup plain flour, sifted
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Serves/Makes: 4
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How to cook Tempura - Deep Fried Plaice:
- Place the fillets in salt water and let it soak for 10 minutes.
- Rinse well under cold running water, drain it well.
- Trim the asparagus, slice the potatoes into very thin rounds and trim the mushrooms and spring onions.
- Preheat the oil in a deep pan to about 340°F. Make the batter just before you're ready to cook.
- Beat the egg yolk and ice-cold water roughly with chopsticks.
- Add the flour and mix with just a few strokes of the chopsticks - the lumpier it is, the better!
- Coat the asparagus spears with batter and deep fry for 3 minutes. The batter should not color. You'll probably need to do this in batches.
- Keep the asparagus warm while you fry the remaining vegetables in the same way.
- Then increase the heat of the oil to 360°F, dip the plaice in batter and and fry for 4 minutes - again, the batter should not color.
- Serve the tempura immediately with soy, tamari sauce or Tempura dipping sauce to dip.
Notes:
Tempura - Seafood and vegetables deep fried in tempura batter, is a very popular Japanese food, and as well one of the best known outside of Japan. You can serve the Tempura pieces on a plate, and prepare some bowls with Tempura dipping sauce.
This Tempura - Deep Fried Plaice is a very affordable dish. It is delicious, simple, quick and very easy to cook.
This recipe for Tempura - Deep Fried Plaice serves/makes: 4
Main Ingredient: Plaice or
Flounder or
Sole
Preparation Method: Deep Fried
Cuisine: Japanese
How to fillet flounder:
Insert the blade of a sharp knife on one side behind the head and cut in an arc down to the bone. Then achieve the flesh along the sides and across the tail. Insert the knife behind the head and slip the knife down rib cage, cutting the fillet away from the ribs. To skin the fillet, place it skin-side down on a board and starting from the tail, slide a sharp knife between the skin and the flesh.
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