Classic Easy Lumpia Phillipino Eggroll Recipes

TRADITIONAL FILIPINO LUMPIA

Steps:

• Place a wok or large skillet over high heat, and pour in 1 tablespoon vegetable oil. Cook pork, stirring frequently, until no pink is showing. Remove pork from pan and set aside. Drain grease from pan, leaving a thin coating. Cook garlic and onion in the same pan for 2 minutes. Stir in the cooked pork, carrots, green onions, and cabbage. Season with pepper, salt, garlic powder, and soy sauce. Remove from heat, and set aside until cool enough to handle.
• Place three heaping tablespoons of the filling diagonally near one corner of each wrapper, leaving a 1 1/2 inch space at both ends. Fold the side along the length of the filling over the filling, tuck in both ends, and roll neatly. Keep the roll tight as you assemble. Moisten the other side of the wrapper with water to seal the edge. Cover the rolls with plastic wrap to retain moisture.
• Heat a heavy skillet over medium heat, add oil to 1/2 inch depth, and heat for 5 minutes. Slide 3 or 4 lumpia into the oil. Fry the rolls for 1 to 2 minutes, until all sides are golden brown. Drain on paper towels. Serve immediately.

LUMPIA (FILIPINO EGG ROLL)

Steps:

• Brown beef and pork, until almost completely cooked. Drain fat. Cool and process in food processor or chop up into fine pieces (like Taco Bell taco meat or a little coarser) with fork.
• Combine meats, vegetables, egg, sauces, pepper in a large bowl. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes to 1 hour for flavors to set inches I like to prepare my filling the day before so it can marinate all night.
• Prepare wrapper (by separating) and place on a separate plate. Place 1 to 2 T of filling in the center of the wrapper.
• Fold left edge over all the way, then bring down top and bottom, then roll the rest of the way to the right, making a roll. hard to explain without a picture, but you'll figure it out -- looks like an egg roll when done, only thinner and longer. Seal with with flour and water mixture.
• After you have assembled all the lumpia, heat your oil (I use the deep fryer) to 375 degrees. Cook until golden brown, turning often, approximately 3 minutes. Drain on paper towels.
• Serve with sweet and sour sauce.
• Note: the wrapper packages usually have instructions for rolling the wrap. Times vary by experience and methods used.

LUMPIA

Steps:

• In a food processor, chop the garlic as small as possible. Add the green onion and yellow onion and pulse to a similar size as the garlic. Add and pulse the shiitake mushroom caps and water chestnuts until all are a similar size. Add the shrimp and pulse until the shrimp are a coarse hamburger grind. Add the ground pork, soy sauce, fish sauce, brown sugar and pepper and mix all thoroughly. Transfer to a bowl, then cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
• Preheat 1 inch frying oil to 350 to 360 degrees F in a heavy-bottomed pot.
• Carefully peel one wrapper off the stack. Orient the wrapper square to the edge of the counter, not diagonal. Scoop about a heaping tablespoon (approximately 1 ounce) of the filling and spread it about an inch from the edge closest to you and about 1/2 inch from each side. Brush all of the edges with the egg wash. Fold the edges in on the sides and begin rolling the bottom of the wrapper to the top, making a tight rope. Make sure when you finish rolling that the egg wash has sealed the roll. Place the lumpia seam-side down on a plate while you make the remaining lumpia. (This amount of filling should make approximately 30 rolls. (These could be made smaller for appetizers.)
• Fry in batches until golden brown and cooked through, about 3 minutes. Remove to drain on a rack or paper towels. Serve hot with sweet chile sauce mixed with vinegar to taste.

CLASSIC EASY LUMPIA (PHILLIPINO EGGROLL)

Steps:

• In a large Wok (or deep fry pan) cook the ground beef and garlic until no longer pink. Drain and poor meat into Large Bowl.
• Finely shred potatoes, carrots and celery ( the finer the better, large pieces will poke holes in the very thin wrappers).
• Pour all shredded vegetables into meat and mix all ingredients together.
• set aside a sheet pan to lay your rolled lumpia's.
• lay flat one lumpia wrapper at a time.
• take about a table teaspoon (not a measured tea spoon) of the meat/veggie mixture and place in the upper/middle of the wrapper.
• fold over top of wrapper over top of mixture, pull back with wrapper to help pull the mixture in tight. Fold in the left side, roll forward once, then fold in the right side and roll forward once, you should now still have a small area of wrapper left, using a basting brush (or fingers) dip your hands into the egg whites and lightly baste the end, finish rolling forward. The egg whites should wet the warpper enough to seal it, but not soak through and make it soggy. Lay aside.
• Once you are finished wrapping heat vegetable oil in deep fryer to 350-375. Carefully drop in with fry basket or with metal tongs. These should fry for about 3-5 minutes or until a light golden brown. Let drain on paper towels, lightly salt, serve.
• These go well with sweet and sour sauce, soy sauce, or just plain.
• **tips.
• be careful not to overload the lumpia wrapper, they tear very easily and are pretty much useless once you tear them.
• when cooking the ground beef, use a mic and chop type motion to help make the pieces as small as possible .
• Freezer friendly- you can put these into ziplock nags and freeze. I usually use the gallon size bags and put about 7 vertically in the bag (with the ends facing up).i lightly let all the air out, zip, and fold the excess bag over, then stack them in the freezer.

PHILIPPINE EGG ROLLS LUMPIA

Steps:

• To make wrappers, combine flour, water and salt to taste and mix thoroughly with a wire whisk to remove lumps. Batter should be about the consistency of crepe batter. Add a little water if it is too thick. If the batter thickens as it sits, you may have to add more water.
• Heat a 6-inch crepe pan and wipe out with lightly oiled wax paper. Pour on batter quickly to cover the bottom. Pour off excess. Allow to cook over low heat until the edges begin to curl and pull away from the sides of the pan. Remove and place on clean, dry surface. Repeat, oiling pan each time. Do not stack wrappers on top of each other until each has cooled.
• Before filling, cut off excess batter to make a perfect circle.
• To make filling, cook pork or beef in a large skillet until pinkness is gone. Drain off grease. Add shrimp, onions, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots, celery, garlic and carrot; cook until carrot is almost tender. Stir in remaining ingredients except the egg white and oil. Mix well. Cook until bean sprouts are limp.
• Pour mixture into strainer and cool, allowing as much liquid as possible to drain off before filling rolls. Use about 1 heaping teaspoon for each wrapper. Place filling near one side. Roll wrapper over filling a couple of times; fold in sides and roll up tightly. Seal flap with a little egg white.
• Deep fry in vegetable oil heated to about 375 degrees F until rolls are golden.
• Drain thoroughly on paper towels and serve with sauce.

LUMPIA - FILIPINO SHRIMP AND PORK EGG ROLLS

Steps:

• Mix the ground pork, shrimp, onion, carrots, green onions, soy sauce, salt, pepper, and MSG in a bowl until well combined.
• Pull a wrapper off the stack, and cover the remaining wrappers with a damp cloth. Place the wrapper on a work surface. Place a thin line, about the width of your little finger, across one side of the wrapper, 1/2 inch from the edge of the wrapper. Roll the wrapper tightly around the filling, and seal the edges with egg white. Repeat making rolls with the remaining wrappers and filling, and cut the rolls into thirds.
• Heat the oil in a heavy pan or deep fryer to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Deep-fry 3 or 4 lumpia at a time, turning once, until the rolls float and turn golden brown, about 3 minutes. Serve hot.

FILIPINO LUMPIA ( EGG ROLL ) WITH SWEET & SOUR SAUCE

Steps:

• In a large skillet, brown pork meat, remove juices. Leave enough pork oil/juices for the vegetables.
• Sauté onion and garlic.
• Add salt and pepper. Stir. (may add more to taste).
• Add soy sauce and vinegar. Let it boil. Don't stir.
• Add carrots, green beans, bamboo shoots, and bean sprouts. Stir.
• Simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Place 1 tbsp of mixture into one corner of wrapper, fold over bringing in the two sides. Roll up halfway, tightly, and fold ends inward. Brush top corner with egg wash and fold over.
• Deep fry 'till brown. Serve with sweet and sour sauce.
• To make the sauce, mix all the ingredients. Bring to a boil and simmer until sauce thickens, about 5 minutes.

LUMPIA (PHILIPPINE EGG ROLLS FROM SCRATCH)

Steps:

• Doilies: Combine flour, water and salt to taste and mix thoroughly with a wire whisk to remove lumps.
• Batter should be about the consistency of a crepe batter.
• Add a little water if it is too thick.
• If the batter thickens as it sits, you may have to add more water.
• Heat a 6" crepe pan and wipe out with lightly oiled wax paper.
• Pour on batter quickly to cover the bottom.
• Pour off excess.
• Allow to cook over low heat until the edges begin to curl and pull away from the sides of the pan.
• Remove and place on clean, dry surface.
• Repeat, oiling pan each time.
• Do not stack doilies on top of each other until each has cooled.
• Before filling, put off excess batter to make a perfect circle.
• Filling: Cook pork or beef in a large skillet until pinkness is gone.
• Drain off grease.
• Add shrimp, onions, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots, celery, garlic and carrot; cook until carrot is almost tender.
• Stir in remaining ingredients except the egg white and oil.
• Mix well.
• Cook until bean sprouts are limp.
• Pour mixture into strainer and cool, allowing as much liquid as possible to drain off before filling rolls.
• Use about 1 heaping teaspoon for each doily.
• Place filling near one side.
• Roll doily over filling a couple of times; fold in sides and roll up tightly.
• Seal flap with a little egg white.
• Deep fry in corn oil heated to about 375F degrees, until rolls are golden.
• Drain thoroughly on paper towels and serve with sauce.