Ingredients:

• 1 cup water, cold
• 1 cup – flour
• 1/3 cup – oil
• 1 – medium eggplant, peeled and sliced into disks (about 8 pieces)
• 1 – potato, peeled and sliced into disks (about 8 pieces)
• 1 – capsicum, sliced into disks (about 4)
• 1 – sweet potato, peeled and sliced into disks (about 8)
• 1 – Egg
• 2 tsp – salt
• bread crumbs – a few
• pepper powder – as per taste

Method:

1. Beat an egg in a bowl. Add ice water to it. Make sure you use very cold water.
2. Add flour in the bowl and mix lightly. Be careful not to over-mix the batter. Put a little salt and pepper.
3. Your tempura batter is ready.
4. Heat vegetable oil in a deep pan and lightly dip the rest of the vegetables in the batter.
5. Add some bread crumbs on top of it and immediately fry them until they are crisp.

Recipe courtesy of Pranita rahul kulkarni