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.


Ingredients:

1 16 oz. (1 lb) Mixed Frozen Vegetables
1/2 lb ground pork
1 cup cabbage, finely shredded
1 tbsp finely minced garlic
1/2 cup minced onion
1/2 tsp ground pepper
1 package Lumpia wrapper(sold in Asian food stores)
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp salt
1 egg, beaten
1 tbsp flour
Oil for deep frying



Methods:
In a big pan, pour 3 tablespoons of cooking oil. Saute minced garlic then onion until it turns transparent. Add ground pork, stir and mix for 10 minutes. Pour the thawed frozen mixed vegetables onto the pan. Add ground pepper, soy sauce and salt. Stir and mix for another 10 minutes. Pour the vegetable mixture into a colander and let it drain. Meanwhile, separate the egg roll wraps individually.

When the hot fillings cool down, mix the flour and egg onto the mixture. Heat oil in another bigger pan.

On a flat surface, spread out wrappers and place a level tablespoon of filling on each egg roll wrapper. Roll tightly and seal with a few drops of hot water. Continue until filling is all used or you can save some for other days. Deep-fry in hot oil and drain on paper towels. Serve hot with soy sauce and vinegar, sprinkled with garlic, onion and pepper.


great looking rolls, carms!  


thanks thess! yeah, munch and crunch! thats how I describe it:)  


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