Crispy Fried Pond Smelt Tempura

• 50 small fish Pond smelt
• 200 ml Cake flour
• 1 Egg
• 1 pinch Sugar
• 200 ml Ice cold water
• 1 tsp Aonori
• 1 Oil
• 1 Grated daikon radish
• 1 Tempura dipping sauce
• 1 Salt

1. Wash the pond smelt in salted water and dry well with a paper towel.
2. Coat with some cake flour and set aside.
3. Heat up the oil.
4. Put the flour, egg, cold water, and sugar into a bowl and mix together.
5. Add the pond smelt from Step 1 and coat with the tempura coating.
6. Deep-fry the pond smelt in 170C oil.
7. You can optionally add 1 teaspoon of aonori to half of the tempura coating mixture.
8. Enjoy with your choice of salt or grated daikon radish and mentsuyu.

smelt, flour, egg, sugar, cold water, oil, radish, dipping sauce, salt

Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/143530-crispy-fried-pond-smelt-tempura (may not work)