tempura; deep-fried battered seafood/vegetables
A Japanese dish of lightly battered and deep-fried seafood or vegetables.
from Portuguese tempero
Let's have tempura for dinner tonight.
この店の海老天ぷらは絶品だ。
The shrimp tempura at this restaurant is exquisite.
I made the shrimp into tempura and ate it.
My mother deep-fried some vegetable tempura for me.
Coat the white fish in tempura batter and fry it.
テンペラ (the painting medium) and 天ぷら (deep-fried food) sound almost identical in Japanese but are completely unrelated in meaning.
Alternate ateji spelling, very uncommon.
Search-only form; not a standard spelling.