Vegetable tempura bento

Menu: BENTO Home; Latest Bento; Categories
Search by Ingredients
Vegetables: Shimeji Mushrooms; Carrot; Spinach; Okra; Green Pepper; Broccoli; Mitsuba (Japanese Parsley); Komatsuna; Onion
Meat: Chicken Tenderloin; Egg; Pork; Chicken
Seafood: Spanish Mackerel; Atka Mackerel; Squid; Salmon
Other Categories
Cooking Methods: Fried; Stir-fried; Grilled
Processed Foods: bonito flakes; Sesame salt; Chikuwa; Nori; Crab stick; Sausage; Pickled Plums
Menu: Sesame Dressing; Minced Meat; Tempura; Grilled Fish; Teriyaki; Saikyoyaki
Site Information: About; Disclaimer; Privacy Policy; Contact; JAPANEASE

We're sharing easy and budget-friendly homemade bento box recipes from Japan!

Crispy and delicious! Vegetable tempura!
Vegetable tempura bento
2026.03.18 ｜ carrot
I was craving something fried, so today I made vegetable tempura. It's for my lunchbox, so I don't need to worry too much about the shape.

Ingredients and Instructions for Vegetable Tempura (2 servings)

Vegetable Tempura

Onion
1 small

Carrot
Half

Shimeji Mushrooms
1/4

Mitsuba (Japanese parsley)
6 sprigs

Tempura Flour
50g

Water
80g

Oil
200g

Wheat Flour
1 tablespoon (15g)
- Cut the vegetables into pieces about 2mm wide
- 1Dust with flour.
- 2Dust with tempura batter mixed with water.
- Heat about 3cm of oil to about 170-180℃ and add the pieces. Using a skewer or similar makes it easier to add them. Fry until golden brown, about 2 minutes on each side, and it’s done.

Husband

Using tempura flour makes making tempura easy, and I don’t make large quantities for bento boxes either.

Wife

When there’s a lot, eggs and flour are fine, but tempura flour is convenient, isn’t it? Eggs have been expensive lately. Fried chicken flour is also convenient, isn’t it?

Kakiage and Tempura Donburi Sauce

Soy Sauce
2 tablespoons (30g)

Sake
2 tablespoons (30g)

Mirin
3 tablespoons (45g)

Sugar
1 tablespoon (15g)
- Heat the sake and mirin to evaporate the alcohol. About 1 minute after it boils.
- Add soy sauce in 2. Done.

Ingredients and Instructions for Side Dish

Stir-fried Okra and Sausage

Sausage
2 pieces

Okra
2 pieces

Sesame Oil
1 teaspoon (5g)

Soy Sauce
1 teaspoon (5g)

Shichimi Togarashi (Japanese seven-spice blend)
4 shakes
- Cut the sausage and okra in half
- Add sesame oil and stir-fry 1
- Once it’s slightly browned, add soy sauce. Finally, sprinkle with shichimi spice.

Spinach with sesame dressing

Spinach
One bunch

Soy sauce
1 teaspoon (5g)

Sugar
10g

Ground sesame seeds
1 tablespoon (15g)
- Boil the spinach for about 20 seconds and drain the water
- Mix soy sauce, sugar, and ground sesame seeds