The story of lumpia in pictures.
First you prep the ingredients
Shredded carrots (2.5 ish lbs), chopped green onions (1 bundle), garlic (1 whole clove), a dozen eggs-separated (2 or 3 whole eggs go into the mix), and some soy sauce.
Reserve the egg whites. They will be used later.
Mix in the meat. Here it is 5.5 pounds of ground pork.
Time to get messy. Each roll takes about that much filling. Close to a standard ice cream scoop.
Personally, I prefer to work with the spring roll wraps. Start at the corner
Roll tightly towards the center
Fold the sides in
Continue rolling. This is where the egg whites come in handy. You will dip that last corner in the egg white to glue the roll closed.
Line them up carefully. Try not to let them touch.
If you are planning to freeze them, it’s a good idea to let them sit for a few minutes to let the egg white set.
They freeze well at this point. You can thaw them out to fry later.
Or get them straight into 350ish degree oil
Fry until golden
Wait until they are cool enough to eat and enjoy.
You cheated! you are using store bought wraps! I am so heartbroken! 🙂
You just got invited to dinner.
Bring the Lumpya.
You didn’t ‘warn’ me and I burnt my tongue… But damn, they were GOOD! Burnt tongue or not!!!
You were too quick! I tried to warn you.
And now I’m hungry again and I just ate lunch.
THOTpd
Wait until cool?! I have never actually seen that happen with lumpia!
Notice OldNFO’s comment above. I tried to prevent the hot oil to the tongue scenario, but he was too quick.
Most folks I’ve known, myself included, eat the lumpia almost as fast as it comes out of the oil. Burnt tongue be darned! Of course most of us were military and trying to cram as much food in as possible in a very short amount of time between aircraft launches 🙂
My wife also makes them with apple or blueberry pie filling and plops a big scoop of vanilla ice cream in between 2 of them. Huuummmm. And yes, a hot pan of them seldom gets to the party table if there’s more than 2 people between.
What Jeremy said.
This recipe serves, what, two, maybe three if one is on a diet? Dammit, now I’m hungry and it’s friggin’ bedtime. Sigh. Thanks for the recipe.