Tendon (Tempura Rice Bowl)

Step 1

This recipe is to guide you through assembling Tendon. Therefore, the recipe does not include the prep and cook time for your tempura, tempura sauce, or steamed rice. Please look at my tempura recipes for more details because prep/cook time varies depends on serving size and ingredients of your choice.

Step 2

If you use leftover tempura from the previous day, re-heat tempura in the oven or oven toaster. Do not microwave as the tempura batter gets too soft.

Step 3

Follow tempura dipping sauce recipe in my shrimp tempura or vegetable tempura recipes. Let the sauce simmer and reduce until the sauce starts to thicken. You can also add sugar and/or mirin to sweeten a little (optional) as it's tastier when served with steamed rice.

Step 4

Whether you make shrimp tempura or/and vegetable tempura, or gluten-free tempura, adjust the ingredients based on the number of tempura bowls you plan to make.

Step 5

Assemble tendon. Put steamed rice in a donburi bowl, drizzle tempura sauce on the rice, and place tempura pieces on top. Drizzle generous tempura sauce on top of the tempura. Alternatively, instead of drizzling the sauce on top, you can quickly dip the tempura in the sauce before placing it on top of a bed of steamed rice.