Vegetable tempura with aioli and brava sauce

Tempura de vegetales con alioli y salsa brava
Tempura is a Japanese dish of seafood or vegetables. The recipe for tempura was introduced to Japan by Iberian Jesuit missionaries particularly active in the city of Nagasaki also founded by the Portuguese, during the sixteenth century (1549).
The word "tempura" comes from "ad tempora quadragesimae", a Latin expression used by both Spanish and Portuguese missionaries to refer to the Lenten period or Ember Days, Fridays, and other Christian holy days. Ember Days or quattuor tempora refer to holy days when Catholics avoid red meat and instead eat fish or vegetables.
There is still today a dish in Portugal very similar to tempura called peixinhos da horta, "garden fishies."
By Tapas Together Edinburgh