Tempura

Tempura (天（てん）ぷら or天（てん）麩（ぷ）羅（ら）; ) is a Japanese dish that usually consists of seafood and vegetables that have been coated in a thin batter and deep-fried. Tempura originated in the 16th century, when PortugueseJesuits brought the Western-style cooking method of coating foods with flour and frying, via Nanban trade.