06/10/2018: The size of egg roll from Chinese restaurant is too big for us when we have some other dishes on the table. So the egg roll and spring roll I make are usually much smaller size. Here is a recipe to make spring roll and eat by wrap it with carrot, egg and cucumber inside the lettuce.
Ingredients:
Spring roll: (2 & 1/3) cup all purpose flour, (1) cup hot water, (1/2) teaspoon olive oil. Some corn starch.
Filling: (1) lb. Ground pork or beef or sliced chicken (2) cups raw and chopped shrimps, (2) cups chopped cabbage, (2) eggs, (1) cup sliced carrots, cucumber, some chopped scallions.
Instructions:
Spring roll:
- Pour hot water slowly into flour. Wait 5 minutes. Kneading it to dough.
- Pour the oil on top of the dough. Cover it up and wait for one hour.
- Re-knead the dough, shape it into a large circle. Cut the circle in halves and shape each to a long log around 3cm in diameter.
- Cut the long log into dough pieces bigger then dumpling dough (about 15g each).
- Push each dough down to a round disc., brush the oil and dust some starch on each.
- Put two dough together, roll the doughs out as dumpling and bigger (about 20-22cm).
- Grill it on flat pan under medium heat.
- Turn it when you see air bubble comes up in between the sheet.
- Separate the sheets when it’s still hot.
Filling:
- Stir-fried the meat , shrimps with cabbage and carrots.
- Beat the eggs with little salt, making a egg skin sheet in the pan.
- Sliced egg sheet and cucumber.
Wrapped filling within each spring roll sheets and rolling it up, then pan-fried them and served with eggs and cucumber or wrapped them all in lettuce to eat.
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