Tempura is a common dish in Japan, and consequently, the Cooking Mama series, being found in almost every single game present.
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Tempura is an easy, simple Japanese dish composed of fish or vegetables that are battered and deep-fried. The most common tempura include shrimp or prawn, shiitake mushroom, and bamboo shoots, but plenty of other things can be used for tempura!
Cooking Mama
The following list is for the Mixed Tempura recipe present in this game, but there are also recipes for Squid Tempura and Shrimp Tempura. This recipe is based off of kakiage, a tempura variant resembling fritters using mixed vegetables/seafood.
Recipe
- Chop up!
- Chop up!
- Separate the yolk!
- Add the ingredients!
- Mix!
- Deep fry!
Ingredients
- Onion
- Carrot
- Egg Yolk
- Flour
- Water
- Spotted Shrimp
Cooking Mama: Cook Off
Recipe
- Remove the yolk!
- Prepare!
- Cut up into pieces!
- Mince!
- Add ingredients!
- Stir!
- Sprinkle!
- Deep fry!
Ingredients
- Egg Yolk
- Shrimp
- Squid
- Shiitake Mushrooms
- Eggplant
- Sweet Potato
- Water
- Flour
Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends
Recipe
- Peel the shrimp!
- Dice it into little bits!
- Slice up!
- Dice it into little bits!
- Mix in the ingredients!
- Fry tempura!
Ingredients
- Shrimp
- Eggplant
- Shiitake Mushroom
- Sweet Potato
- Wheat Flour
- Salt
- Water
- Egg
- Garnished with nanten (heavenly bamboo) leaves
Cooking Mama: World Kitchen
Recipe
- Peel the shrimp!
- Dice it into little bits!
- Slice up!
- Add the ingredients!
- Mix it!
- Deep fry it!
Ingredients
- Shrimp
- Eggplant
- Sweet Potato
- Shiitake
- Flour
- Water
- Egg Yolks
- Served with grated daikon on a shiso leaf
Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop
Recipe
- Clean the shrimp!
- Cut it up and put it in!
- Mix it with the spatula!
- Remove them in order!
Ingredients
- Shrimp
- Eggplant
- Sweet Potato
- Lotus Root
- White Flour
- Water
- Egg
- Served with grated daikon
Cooking Mama 4: Kitchen Magic
Recipe
- Chop it!
- Use the slicer!
- Descale the fish!
- Clean the sillago!
- Use the scale!
- Mix it up!
- Dip it in the batter!
- Remove them in order!
Ingredients
- Eggplant
- Lotus Root
- Sweet Potato
- Sillago
- Salt
- Cold Water
- Baking Powder
- Wheat Flour
- Pepper
- Served with grated daikon on top of a shiso leaf
Cooking Mama 5: Bon Appétit!
In this game, you can make Sardine & Veggie Tempura.
Recipe
- Cut it up!
- Cut the ingredients!
- Clean the sardines!
- Separate the yolk!
- Measure and add it!
- Mix it up!
- Batter it!
- Deep fry it!
Ingredients
- Shiitake
- Eggplant
- Lotus Root
- Sardines
- Egg Yolk
- Baking Powder
- Pepper
- Potato Flour
- Wheat Flour
- Cold Water
- Salt
- Served with grated daikon on top of a shiso leaf
Cooking Mama Lets Cook!
Recipe
- Clean the shrimp!
- Cut the ingredients!
- Measure and add it!
- Mix it!
- Batter it!
- Deep fry it!
Ingredients
- Shrimp
- Lotus Root
- Eggplant
- Egg Yolk
- Salt
- Water
- Wheat Flour
- Potato Flour
- Baking Powder
- Pepper
- Shiso Leaf
Trivia
- This is one of the only recipes featured in all 5 Main Stream DS Cooking Mama games.
Gallery
Kakiage
Mixed Tempura as it appears in Cooking Mama
Tempura as it appears in Cooking Mama 2
Tempura as it appears in Cooking Mama 3
Tempura as it appears in Cooking Mama 4
Sardine & Veggie Tempura as it appears in Cooking Mama 5
Tempura as it appears in Cooking Mama Let's Cook!