Posted October 27, 2011 by Sunny Subramanian
This is not a sick joke, my friends: You can have healthy fried food?if you do it right! At fast-food “restaurants,” everything is usually deep-fried together in fatty, artery-clogging oil. But when prepared at home with quality ingredients, you can enjoy tasty fried food without experiencing that “food coma” feeling afterward.
In keeping with the theme of the month, I chose delicata squash—a winter squash with distinctive dark green stripes on a yellow background and sweet, orange-yellow flesh—to star in a light tempura. Fun fact: The skin on this squash is edible, so there’s less peeling and more eating!
Healthy Squash Tempura
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
1/4 tsp. sea salt
1-1 1/4 cups water
2 level tsps. kuzu,* diluted in a little cold water
Vegetable oil
1 medium-size delicata squash, cut into squares or—my favorite shape—rings
* Kuzu starch (from the kuzu root) acts as a thickening agent. You can also use egg replacer, cornstarch, or arrowroot powder.
Winter squash contains antioxidant properties that can help prevent cardiovascular disease and can reduce the risk of cancer. But the frying fun doesn’t end with squash! While you’re at it, try a few other foods—apples, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, parsley (seriously, try it), kale, mushrooms, onions (can you say vegan onion rings?!) tofu, or anything else you can get your hands on. What will you turn into tempura?
Health is wealth!
—Paige
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576 days ago
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yum! sounds good, ive make bakes butternut squash fries all the time, which is kindish like this
576 days ago
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They have something like this in peru, but I think it’s made out of sweet potato. I’m not sure though, I couldn’t understand spanish at the time. ^-^;
576 days ago
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I deep fry my tofu in peanut oil