Spring Roll w/ a twist

June 7, 2005

One day I got bored with my usual fried lumpia that I decided to do something about it. I took the idea from one of the dutch’s famous snack, the kroket. The croquet or croquette, is a popular snack in the Netherlands. A croquet is a fried snack shaped like a thick sausage that is crunchy and hard on the outside because it’s rolled in bread crumbs, but very soft and smooth on the inside. Fillings can vary from chicken, pork, beef, and shrimp.

There’s nothing special in this spring roll recipe, just that I rolled them in bread crumbs and that made them extra crunchy…great for snacks.

Ingredients:makes 30-40 pieces, depends on your lumpia-wrapper size

filling:
1lb cubed pork, fat optional
2 boiled chicken legs- shredded (meat only , skin thrown away)
750 gr shredded cabbage
2 cups julienned carrots
200gr julienned string beans
a stalk or two (depends on the thickness) of prei (see photo) julienned (use the white until the light green part of the stalk) equal length as carrots and string beans..I like prei’s sweet, onion taste (this is also great for salads)

dutch prei

300gr bean sprouts
100 pre soaked vermicelli, drained
chopped onion and garlic
2-4 tbsp curry powder
pepper and salt (or fish sauce)
pork cube bouillion(optional)
vegetable oil
thawed lumpia wrappers

self made or grocery packed fine bread crumbs + 1tbsp sesame seeds
2-3 slightly beaten eggs or just egg whites

method: in a large pan, saute onion and garlic in oil until they turn slightly brown, add pork(and bouillion), continue to cook until pork is almost cooked, add the strips of vegetables, curry powder, stir for about 2-3 min, stir in shredded chicken, bean sprouts and vermicelli and continue stirring for about a minute while adding pepper and salt/fish sauce to taste. turn off the heat and set aside to cool.
note: the vermicelli will keep the filling dry which is now juicy due to the vegies.
next step, i rolled the lumpias, using water to seal the wrapper edges, soaked quickly per piece in beaten eggs in one hand, the other hand rolling it on breadcrumbs.

Fried crunchy lumpia

thai sweet chilli sauce is my favorite dip for this.

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