Lee’s Okra Tempura with Asian Dipping Sauce_small

Okra Tempura with Asian Dipping Sauce

Okra Tempura with Asian Dipping Sauce

By: Lee Holmes

We all know tempura is the bees knees, but okra takes it to a whole new level! Give this tasty dish a go tonight.


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Recipe


Ingredients

  • Asian Dipping Sauce
  • 2 tbsp rice-malt syrup
  • 2 tbsp tamari
  • 2 tbsp lime juice
  • 1 tsp red pepper flakes

  • 1 large egg yolk
  • 1 cup soda water, ice cold
  • 1 cup tapioca flour
  • Coconut oil, for shallow-frying
  • 2 cups okra, cap removed from the okras & sliced in half lengthwise
  • ½ tsp sea salt

Method


  • In small saucepan, place all dipping sauce ingredients and bring to a boil over medium–high heat. Cook, stirring constantly, until sauce is reduced by half, about 5 mins. Transfer to small bowl or container and set aside.
  • Whisk egg yolk and soda in medium bowl and slowly add tapioca flour and until thin batter forms.
  • Heat some coconut oil (about 4cm deep) in medium, heavy-based saucepan over medium–high heat. Once oil is hot (a small piece of okra should sizzle and float), working in batches, dip okra in batter to coat well.
  • Cook until crisp on all sides. Lay on paper towel to drain off excess oil while you cook next batch.

  

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Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes is a nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, Lifestyle Food Channel’s Healthy Eating Expert, blogger and author of the best-selling books Supercharged Food: Eat Your Way to Health, Supercharged Food: Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian, Heal your Gut, Eat Right for Your Shape and Supercharged Food for Kids.

Lee’s food philosophy is all about S.O.L.E. food: sustainable, organic, local and ethical. Her main goal is to alter the perception that cooking fresh, wholesome, nutrient-rich meals is difficult, complicated and time-consuming. From posting recipes, her passion to share her autoimmune disease story and help others has snowballed and the blog has recently taken home the overall prize at the Bupa Health Influencer Awards as well as the best blog in the Healthy Eating category. She also runs a four-week online Heal Your Gut program.

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