The Bubble Chef

Filipinos often cook vegetables with meat and other ingredients. In fact, you can rarely find plain vegetable dish. Normally, vegetable dishes are simmered with beef, pork, chicken, fish or shrimp with soy sauce, lemon juice, patis(fish sauce), garlic, onions, vinegar and tomatoes. But how could you tell if a vegetable dish should become a main dish when their together? I say it depends on the proportion of meat to vegetable.

The Philippine version of egg roll consists of a lumpia wrapper (a thin "skin" made of flour or cornstarch, eggs and water) wrapped around a filling of minced vegetables and bits of meat, then deep-fried. It is also called Spring roll. Today, I'll show you how to cook an easy, timeless and yet delicious Fried Lumpia to be served at anytime.

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The Filipino way of cooking and its recipes are greatly influenced by American, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and European cooking. The versatility and difference in tastes makes it unique. Stir frying for instance came from Chinese who have ways of manipulationg food in its simplest form thru ancient techniques. In fact, if you'll check out the meaning of stir-fry in the dictionary, you can come up with a simple meal at no time using a small amount of oil, a wok or large skillet over high heat with the prepared ingredients usually vegetables, together with shrimp, chicken or beef. While it is important to preserve the flavor, color and texture of the food, it is necessary to constantly stir the ingredients to keep the vegetables crisp.


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