How to make shrimp tempura donburi as seen in 'Spirited Away'
Spirited Away is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli.
It is one of the studio's most popular works and has proved to be both a commercial and critical success worldwide.
It received and Oscar for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards and is to date the first and only hand-drawn and non-English-language animated film to win that accolade.
Spirited Away tells the story of a 10-year-old girl named Chihiro who accidentally enters a world full of spirits while trying to move into a new neighborhood.
She works at the bathhouse owned by the witch Yubaba, who turned her parents into pigs, hoping to find a way to return to the human world and transform her parents back to humans.
In one of the movie's scenes, Chihiro asks for work from Kamaji, the six-armed man who works at the boiler room of Yubaba's bathhouse.
He is seen eating a simple meal of shrimp tempura donburi or tendon.
Photo courtesy of Studio Ghibli
Food vlogger Moviekitchen shared a recipe for the shrimp tempura donburi as seen in the animated film.
Here's how to make it.
Ingredients
shrimp
egg yolk
frying powder
ice water
cooking oil
mirin
salt
pepper
rice
teriyaki sauce
Procedure
1. Prepare the shrimp by removing the pointy part of the tail with a pair of scissors
2. Sprinkle mirin, salt and pepper over the prepared shrimp
3. Make tempura batter by mixing egg yolk and ice water in a bowl
4. Sift the frying powder into the egg and water mixture and stir gently
5. Coat the shrimp in more frying powder then dip in the tempura batter
6. Deep fry the shrimp in a pot of oil
7. Sprinkle tempura batter into the oil before and after putting in the shrimp to create a crunchy coating
8. Prepare the donburi or rice bowl by putting freshly cooked rice in a bowl and pouring teriyaki sauce over it
9. Top with the shrimp tempura and served with pickled radish.
Watch how the shrimp tempura donburi from Spirited Away is made here:
Tempura is a Japanese dish made by deep frying seafood, meat or vegetables coated with batter.
The batter is made with ice water or sometimes sparkling water to keep it light. When mixing, lumps are also left to make a fluffy and crunchy texture when cooked.
Tempura doesn't usually use panko breadcrumbs.
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