Shrimp Tempura Recipe

Tempura, one of my favorite Asian food is prepared in a variety of method by different ingredient for example they can be made of chicken, prawn, shrimps, vegetable etc. But the one which is more popular is shrimp tempura. When cooking any tempura at home keep in mind that the batter for actual tempura remains same.

Ingredients:

10 pieces of shrimps
2 egg yolks
2 tbspn plane flour
2 tbspn corn flour
Salt to taste
1 tspn baking soda
Water as required

 

Preparation:

1. Take a piece of shrimp and make light cuts on it using knife very carefully in diagonal direction and turn it to press, the shrimps will become straight.
2. Make batter suing egg yolks, flour, corn flour, baking soda, salt and little water. The batter should not so thick and thin.
3. Now Heat oil in a deep pan of appropriate size so that prawns would fry well, dip the shrimps in heated oil one by one and let them fry for 1-2 minutes only.
4. Take out the shrimps from the oil and serve your shrimp tempura with ketchup.

Cabbage Soup Diet Recipe

Vegetable soups are rich in vitamins and minerals and very similar is the case with cabbage soup. This is also called cabbage soup diet as it is a common thinking and understanding that cabbage soup helps in loosing weight since it aids in burning fats. You must have seen banners indicating seven day cabbage soup diet plan on something similar to this . But the fact is that it can be taken when ever you feel like and it doesn’t taste too bad either.

Ingredients:
6 large green onions
2 green peppers (chopped)
3 tomatoes (take out seed part and cut into cubes)
3 Carrots (julienne thick)
1 Container Mushrooms (diced)
½ head of cabbage (cut in medium size)
4 cups chicken stock
8 cups V8 juice
Salt as required
Pepper as required
Parsley as required
2 tspn garlic powder

Preparation:

1. Cut onions in circular shape of thick slices.
2. Put all the vegetables in a soup pot except tomatoes.
3. Now add chicken stock and V8 juice in the vegetables. Let vegetables cook on low heat.
4. When vegetables are half done, add tomatoes in it and cook for at least 40mins till all vegetables become completely tender.
5. After that add some seasoning to it according to your taste.