One of my favorite foods is sushi. Its my favorite place to go to when Eric and I have the occasional date night. We used to go with the kids years ago and Natalie used to love to get the vegetable tempura and chicken teriyaki. Traditionally, tempura is made with wheat flour which we no longer eat. Eric surprised us one weekend as he experimented and came up with this great paleo replacement for it! It was delicious and can be used with virtually any vegetable or even meat!
What you will need for this flour-free, grain-free tempura:
- 1.5 cups of frying oil (we like to use ethically sourced palm oil or coconut oil)
- Florets from 2 heads of broccoli
- 1 cup of almond flour (where to buy almond flour)
- 2 eggs (where to buy organic, soy-free eggs)
- 1 tsp. sea salt (where to buy sea salt)
- 1/2 cup coconut milk (buy coconut milk here or make your own)
Directions:
- Put oil in a deep pan and turn on high.
- Put all ingredients (excluding broccoli) in a food processor or blender.
- Mix until it looks like batter.
- Dip your broccoli in the batter and carefully place in the hot oil.
- Use tongs to turn broccoli until it is light brown on all sides.
- Remove from oil and let cool.
- Enjoy!
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What is your favorite vegetable to turn into tempura?
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Used this to make tempura squash blossoms and it turned out excellently! Liked it almost just as much as real tempura : )
Didn’t have any issue with the oil bubbling over. Am not in high altitude and used refined coconut oil.
Sorry you didn’t like it Lynn. Thanks for letting us know about the high altitude.
This is a bad recipe as written here. The tempura batter came right off the broccoli and after 5 florets the oil+batter foamed over the deep pan creating an absolute disaster. FYI, we made this at high altitude if that makes any difference. As it stands we do not recommend this recipe.
Sorry you didn’t like it Lynn. Thanks for letting us know about the high altitude.
I can’t have almond flour. Would coconut flour work for this recipe??
Hi Alyssa,
You could certainly try it! I haven’t tried that yet so unfortunately I’m not sure! Sorry I can’t be of more help :/