5 Japanese Fried Dishes That Are Perfect as Side Dishes in the Rainy Season

Kapanlagi.com - The cold and wet rainy season often makes us want to enjoy warm and crispy dishes that are filling. Japanese fried dishes are the perfect choice to accompany your lunch or dinner, KLovers, during the rainy season that always makes you hungry.

With a distinctive frying technique and tempting spices, dishes like tempura, karaage, or tonkatsu not only warm your body but also provide a satisfying crunch in your stomach.

Here are recipes for Japanese fried dishes with ingredients that are easy to find in local markets and can be made at home. Let's check it out, KLovers!

1. Tempura

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The most famous Japanese fried food is shrimp, vegetables, or seafood coated with a special tempura flour until crispy. Its texture is very light and crispy with a golden color. Here’s how to make it:

Ingredients:

- 200g large shrimp

- 100g tempura flour

- 100ml ice water

- 1 egg

- Salt to taste

- Cooking oil

Instructions:

1. Clean the shrimp, make a slit on its back

2. Mix the tempura flour with ice water and egg

3. Dip the shrimp into the batter

4. Fry in hot oil (170°C)

5. Remove when golden

6. Serve with tempura sauce.

2. Karaage

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The second Japanese fried food is Karaage, Japanese-style fried chicken marinated in soy sauce and ginger, then coated with starch flour. It results in a crispy exterior and juicy interior. Here’s how to make it:

Ingredients:

- 500g chicken thigh fillet

- 3 tablespoons Japanese soy sauce

- 1 piece of ginger, grated

- 2 cloves of garlic

- 100g starch flour

- Pepper

- Cooking oil

Instructions:

1. Cut the chicken into 3-4 cm pieces

2. Marinate with soy sauce, ginger, garlic (30 minutes)

3. Coat with starch flour

4. Fry in hot oil

5. Fry twice for a crispier result

6. Serve with Japanese mayonnaise.

3. Korokke

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Japanese-style potato croquettes filled with minced meat and vegetables, coated in breadcrumbs. This dish combines European culinary influences with Japanese flavors. Here’s how to make one of these Japanese fried dishes:

Ingredients:

- 500g potatoes

- 200g minced meat

- 1 onion

- 100g all-purpose flour

- 2 eggs

- 200g breadcrumbs

- Salt and pepper

- Cooking oil

Instructions:

1. Boil the potatoes until tender, then mash

2. Sauté the meat and onion

3. Mix the potatoes with the sautéed meat

4. Shape into flat rounds

5. Dip in flour, then egg, and finally breadcrumbs

6. Fry until golden

7. Then you can lift them out and serve.

4. Tonkatsu - Non Halal

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Japanese fritters consisting of slices of pork coated in breadcrumbs and fried until crispy. It has become one of the favorite comfort foods of modern Japanese society. You can also make a halal version using beef. Here’s how to make it:

Ingredients:

- 4 pieces of pork tenderloin / beef tenderloin

- 100g all-purpose flour

- 2 eggs

- 200g breadcrumbs

- Salt and pepper

- Cooking oil

- Tonkatsu sauce

Instructions:

1. Season the meat with salt and pepper

2. Coat with all-purpose flour

3. Dip in beaten eggs

4. Coat with breadcrumbs

5. Fry in medium oil

6. Slice and serve with tonkatsu sauce.

5. Takoyaki

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And the last Japanese fritter is a ball of batter filled with pieces of octopus that is fried in a special mold. It is popular as street food in Osaka. Here’s how to make one of these Japanese fritters:

Ingredients:

- 200g takoyaki flour

- 2 eggs

- 600ml dashi broth

- 200g boiled octopus

- Green onions

- Katsuobushi (shredded skipjack tuna)

- Takoyaki sauce

- Japanese mayonnaise

Instructions:

1. Mix flour, eggs, and broth

2. Heat the takoyaki mold

3. Pour the batter, add pieces of octopus

4. Rotate the batter when it’s half-cooked

5. Cook until browned

6. Serve with sauce, mayonnaise, katsuobushi.

Those are some recipes for Japanese fritters that you can make at home. For those of you who have seen these recipes, you can start making them right away, because if not now, when else?

(kpl/dhm)