Cutting Garlic Chives For Japanese Vegetable Tempura

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is Hui on behalf of Expert Village I'm going to show how to cook vegetable tempura. Then we would start chopping off the root of the baby garlic chives first cause the root of the garlic chives always contains a lot of sand and dust. Then we can chop it into 2 inch in length as you can see. We don't have to do anything else and would look very pretty. We use a vegetable peeler to peel of the outer skin of the sweet potato first. The American sweet potato tends to have really tough skin so for the tempura dish, we should peel off the skin first. If you can find a Asian sweet potato which is bright red in color, you may be able to use the skin on and the dish would still taste fine. So again we would cut the sweet potato around the same size as the other vegetables 1/4 inch thick or a little bit thinner. Remember not to cut your hands but all the slices should be even otherwise one would cut much longer then the other that is when you will not eat it."