Lumpia (meat filling)

Raw wrapped lumpia, above.


Wrapping Diagram above.

Lumpia

One of my favorite things to make. I usually make it with Chicken Adobo, or pancit (recipes are on here.) It's a Filipino side dish that I love! Similar to spring rolls, but uses a meat filling. You could substitute ground beef, ground chicken, or even add finely chopped shrimp to the mixture.


Ingredients:

I like to fry in Peanut oil, vegetable oil would work.

I like the Simex brand individual wrappers (you can use lumpia or spring roll wrappers. Sometimes you can find them at the grocery store. If not, an Asian market will carry them in their frozen food department)

1# of ground pork

1 cup shredded carrots

1 cup finely chopped mushrooms (shitake if you can get them)

1 cup of thinly sliced green beans (If you can find french cut fresh green beans, that's perfect, if not cut thin slices on a diagonal)

3 cloves of chopped or pressed garlic

1/2 cup finely chopped onion (green onion or white onion work well)

1 tablespoon of white wine vinegar

2 tablespoons of soy sauce

2 large eggs

3 tablespoons of corn starch

teaspoon of salt

teaspoon of pepper


DIRECTIONS

1. Combine all raw ingredients together and mix well with your hands.

2.Put about 1 heaping tablespoon of raw meat mixture in the center of your lumpia wrapper. Make a very thin log and roll up, puling insides of wrapper in. See Diagran for folding directions.

3. Fry lumpia in a deep fryer till golden brown or in a shallow frying pan 1/2 filled with oil and turn once.


***This makes about 40-45 lumpia, which is a lot. If you want you can freeze 1/2 (before you fry them) in a ziploc for up to 2 months. You fry them frozen, so I would only deep fry them this way because of the splatter from the oil.

****Also, my Dad has come up with a wonderful, yet completely non-traditional sauce that we eat these with. Take about 1/4 cup of A1 sauce, with a tablespoon of water to thin it out, and add Sriracha hot chile paste to taste...sooo good!

How to wrap: Follow Diagram in picture above. Remember Lumpia are wrapped long and thin. Your cooking the meat so it needs to be thin to cook thoroughly.