lettuce wraps shrimp tempura w/ fish sauce

Name: Lettuce wraps shrimp tempura w/ fish sauce
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Ingredients: 0.5 pound(s) shrimp, peeled and deveined; 6 - shitake mushrooms; 0.25 cup(s) tempura batter mix; 1 - egg; 1 cup(s) water; 1 - lettuce head; 1 tablespoon(s) fish sauce; 2 tablespoon(s) lime juice; 0.5 cup(s) bean sprouts, fresh; 0.5 cup(s) carrot, shredded; 0.5 cup(s) cucumber; 1 clove(s) garlic; 1 - red chili pepper; 1 tablespoon(s) scallion, chopped; 1 tablespoon(s) lemongrass, chopped; 0.25 cup(s) sugar

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Yen Tran

Salt Lake City, UT

Updated on Jul 1, 2016

This lettuce wrap tempura recipe is a quick and easy dinner fix, crunchy with shrimp tempura and still healthy with vegetable mix! The Vietnamese-inspired fish sauce gives it a special twist, sweet and sour, tangy and spicy. Enjoy trying out the recipe and let me know how you like it!

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Lettuce wraps shrimp and shiitake mushroom tempura with fish sauce

prep time 30 Min

cook time 15 Min

method Deep Fry

yield 2 serving(s)

Ingredients

0.5 pound shrimp, peeled and deveined
6 - shitake mushrooms
0.25 cup tempura batter mix
1 - egg
1 cup water
1 - lettuce head
1 tablespoon fish sauce
2 tablespoons lime juice
0.5 cup bean sprouts, fresh
0.5 cup carrot, shredded
0.5 cup cucumber
1 clove garlic
1 - red chili pepper
1 tablespoon scallion, chopped
1 tablespoon lemongrass, chopped
0.25 cup sugar

How To Make lettuce wraps shrimp tempura w/ fish sauce

Step 1

Wet ingredient: mix tempura batter mix, egg, and water. Dry ingredient: set aside a table spoon of dry tempura batter mix.

Step 2

Shrimp: Make three cuts along the shrimp, vertically to the shrimp tail. Use the side of your knife to straighten up the shrimp. Then mix the shrimps with the dry tempura batter mix.
Step 3

Heat the oil in a small sauce pan to 350F, keep the heat at medium. Mix the shrimps into the wet batter mix, and carefully put it in the pan. Let it fry for 2 minutes per side then remove, and dry off the oil. Do the same for the shiitake mushroom.
Step 4

Vegetable mix: mix carrot, cucumber, bean sprout with a tablespoon of lime juice and a teaspoon of minced garlic.
Step 5

Dipping sauce: mix sugar with luke warm water, then add the fish sauce and lime juice, along with minced garlic and chopped chili pepper.
Step 6

Dipping sauce topping: quickly stir fry the chopped scallion and lemon grass in some olive oil, then add to the dipping sauce.
Step 7

To serve: wrap the shrimp and mushroom tempura in a lettuce leaf, top with vegetable mix, then dip into the mixed fish sauce.
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