Steps to Make Award-winning Lotus Root Tempura Stuffed with Pork

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As for the number of servings that can be served to make Lotus Root Tempura Stuffed with Pork is 4 servings. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.

Just in addition, the time it takes to cook Lotus Root Tempura Stuffed with Pork estimated approx 30 mins.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have Lotus Root Tempura Stuffed with Pork using 18 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

This is a recipe I learned from my favorite izakaya (kind of Japanese pub). I loved it so much I made the ladies at the izakaya teach me, haha.

Ingredients and spices that need to be Take to make Lotus Root Tempura Stuffed with Pork:

1. 1/4 stalk Green onion (NEGI) or onion
2. 1/2-1 tsp Fresh ginger, grated
3. 350 g Lotus root (2 whole roots)
4. 200 g Ground pork
5. 1/4 tsp Salt
6. 1 Tbsp Flour
7. <Tempura batter>
8. 3/4 cup Flour (cake or pastry flour if you have it)
9. 1/4 cup Potato starch (Katakuriko)
10. 1/2 tsp Baking powder
11. 120 ml Sparkling water or water
12. <Dipping sauce>
13. 2 Tbsp Soy sauce
14. 1 tsp Grated ginger (optional)
15. 1 tsp Rice vinegar
16. 1/2 tsp Sugar
17. 1/2 tsp Salt
18. to taste Karashi mustard

Steps to make to make Lotus Root Tempura Stuffed with Pork

1. Lotus roots! I used two small :) You can easily peel the out skin with a regular peeler.
2. Peel and slice lotus into thin slices (about 3mm or so).
3. Grate ginger and mince onions.
4. Soak lotus in water for 5-10 minutes. Drain and pat dry with paper towel.
5. Meanwhile, mix ground pork with onion, ginger, salt and flour. Then sandwich a spoonful of the meat between two slices of lotus root.
6. Repeat until all lotus "sandwiches" are done.
7. Mix flour, potato starch, baking powder and salt together in a large bowl.
8. Heat frying oil over medium to until hot enough to fry, about 170C/325F if you have a thermometer
9. When ready to fry, mix sparkling water (or just cold water) into flour until you get a consistency of heavy cream (it was about 120 ml for me).
10. Dip each lotus sandwich into the batter. Let excess batter run off before frying.
11. Fry until batter is crisp and meat is cooked - a couple minutes each. Cut one in half to check the meat if you're worried.
12. The tempura batter should turn out light and a bit poofy!
13. Mix soy sauce, vinegar, sugar and ginger (if using) for dipping sauce. Slice each lotus sandwich in half and serve with dipping sauce and karashi mustard. Yum!

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