Tempura butterflies: Geek chic or garnish

Butterflies from root vegetables provide a gorgeous variant on vegetable tempura: Serve a platter of different fried vegetables with fried butterflies perching about fried veggie flowers. We serve this at parties with the dipping sauce from the video and straight soy in little bowls for each person/couple. Even picky "I only eat hot dogs and spaghetti" people devour this. Music snippets from Yoshida Brothers, Inside the Sun remix, their channel: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=DomoMusic#g/u

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• garnish
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• carrot
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• tempura
• fry
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[mrwasabi100]

yo, you don't know jack shit about "butterfly in carrot. So PLEASE remove yourself before you embarrass yourself. thank you ( if you need help, I might be able to help, beside I'm still learning, THANK YOU) YOU are doing it to show off the knife you got. the knife might be important but you still need the SKILL. YOU talk the talk, and you can't WALK the walk, you TRIP on the walk. NO SHIT. WELL DONE

[gryphern]

@mrwasabi100 dude, that knife was $1 at clearance rack of a department store. You're projecting because you have some kind of hang up about quality of tools and looking important based on tools. While tool quality is an indicator of success in some cases (a shitty surgeon at a county hospital won't have a "da Vinci" surgery robot, for example) for the most part tool quality is an ego thing. I can cut glass with a $200 Japanese pistol grip tool or a 2 dollar american cutter and get the same cut.

[thekrystalmethod]

I see with a lot of restaurants, their tempura batter is a little more yellow. Is this because they use an actual egg or do they add some sort of extra flavoring to it?

[gryphern]

@thekrystalmethod We used an egg free recipe, but traditional recipes call for eggs. Egg yolk has carotenoid chemicals that make it yellow. When cooking, the source of eggs will determine yolk color. So farmyard eggs are yellower than factory eggs due to diet and stress. Batter color is altered through colorants, such as vegetable juice, food coloring, pepper powder, flavored oils, or sauces. If panko (bread crumbs) are used they will influence color and flavor.

[sydenthao]

where could i get those knifes ? write back plsssss

[whoswhoswho]

You're holding your knife incorrectly, I noticed you're left handed, but you have no control over the knife, and you're fingers on the carrot are out. bring them in. use your knuckles as a guide so you dont cut yourself, and your cuts will be more precise.

[Vegetanthony]

Nice, That is awesome

[Promods95]

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[MahoroSu]

@waincat the more cold the batter is, the more crispy it gets, sucks up less oil as well... try it out...

[UltimateRajput]

nicely explained