Fresh Chicken and Peanut Roll
This recipe is a fresh spring roll added with chicken and peanut. A delicious recipe with nutty and slightly sweet flavor. You can use the garlicky sauce or just a soy sauce.
Ingredients:
For the Filling:
2 cups minced chicken
3 pieces shallots
¾ cup roughly ground roasted peanut
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 red chili, minced
3 coriander roots, minced
2 ½ tbsp palm sugar
2 tsp soy sauce
2 tbsp fish sauce or to taste
2 tbsp oil
For the Rolls:
8 – 10 spring roll wrapper
Fresh coriander leaves
1 piece carrot, julienned
1 piece cucumber, julienned
Note: You can use any veggies of your choice.
Procedures:
1) Heat oil in the pan over medium heat. Add garlic, shallots, coriander roots, chili and sauté until aromatic.
2) Add chicken and stir fry for a few minutes or until chicken turns white.
3) Add soy sauce, palm sugar and fish sauce. Mix well.
4) Add ground peanut and stir fry for 1 minute or until all ingredients are mixed. Keep aside.
5) The spring roll wrappers need to be handled one at a time. Just thaw it in several minutes to avoid sticking together. Take one at a time to work on. Add stir fried chicken and peanut, carrot, cucumber and fresh coriander leaves. Close both edges and roll. Repeat the process to make other rolls.
6) Serve with sweet soy sauce with chili or make a fresh lumpia sauce.
Filipino Fresh Lumpia
Filipino Fresh Lumpia is a traditional Filipino dish. Lumpiang Sariwa, or Fresh Lumpia, are folded into a soft, crepe-like wrapper made with eggs. They contain a mixture of stir-fried ingredients, heavy on the veggies, Pork, and turnips, served with sauce and peanuts.
Fresh Lumpia Ingredients:
Filling:
• 1/4 kilo pork liempo, boiled and sliced
• 1/2 kilo shrimp, shelled
• 2 squares tokwa (tofu), cubed
• 1/2 cabbage, medium-sized, shredded
• 1 cup string beans, sliced diagonally
• carrot, cut into thin strips
• kinchay, cut lengthwise, half inch
• kamote, medium-sized, cut into thin strips
• lettuce leaves
• 3 tbsp. cooking oil
• 1 onion, sliced
• 1 garlic, crushed
• peanuts, finely chopped (for garnishing)
Lumpia wrappers:
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/4 cup cornstarch
• dash of salt
• oil to grease frying pan
For sauce:
• 1 cup brown sugar
• water
• cornstarch
• soy sauce
Seasoning:
• soy sauce to taste
Fresh Lumpia Cooking Instructions:
• Saute garlic and onions. Add pork and shrimp.
• When pork and shrimp are slightly cooked, add tofu.
• Add carrots, string beans, kamote, then kinchay and cabbage. Do not overcook.
• Season to taste. Cool before wrapping.
• To make lumpia wrappers:
Mix egg, water, cornstarch and salt thoroughly until smooth. Take about lA of batter to make each crepe (piece of wrapper). Brush some oil on a non-stick pan. Spread the batter thinly by turning the pan around. Cook only one side of the crepe over low heat. (Don’t keep the crepe too long on the pan as it will be toasted. When it turns slightly brown or small bubbles appear on the surface, it’s cooked.) Lift crepe off using a wide spatula, and place on wax paper. Stack cooked crepes with wax paper between them.
• To make sauce:
Dissolve cornstarch in water and soy sauce. Put brown sugar in a saucepan. Caramelize by stirring the sugar continually until totally melted. (Don’t scorch the sugar.) Add some water and simmer until the caramel is dissolved. Add cornstarch dissolved in water and soy sauce. Stir until mixture becomes smooth and transparent.
• To make lumpia:
Put 2-3 tablespoons of filling in lumpia wrapper. Roll wrapper and seal. Serve with sauce and finely chopped peanuts.