Sesame Tempura Green Beans with Soy Dipping Sauce

Ingredients

• Beer

  Alcoholic beverage, regular, all

  8 fl oz or 238g

• Green beans

  Snap beans, raw

  12 oz or 340g

• Sesame seeds

  Seeds, whole, dried

  3 tbsp or 27g

• Lime juice

  Raw

  2 tsp or 10g

• Vegetable oil

  Natreon canola, high stability, non trans, high oleic (70%)

  4 cup or 896g

• Soy sauce

  Made from soy (tamari)

  2 tbsp or 36g

• Wheat flour

  White, all-purpose, unenriched

  1 cup or 125g

• Sugar

  White, granulated sugar

  1 tsp or 4g

Directions

1. Trim the green beans.
2. Heat 2 inches of oil in a 4-quart heavy pot over moderate heat until a deep-fat thermometer registers 365°F.
3. While the oil is heating, prepare the dipping sauce by stirring together soy sauce, lime juice, and sugar until the sugar is dissolved.
4. Whisk together the flour and sesame seeds, then whisk in the beer until the batter is smooth.
5. Coat about 10 beans in the batter, then add them to the oil one at a time to keep them separate. Fry, turning, until golden, about 1 1/2 minutes. Transfer with tongs to paper towels to drain and sprinkle with salt to taste. Repeat with the remaining beans.
6. Serve the beans with the dipping sauce.