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Spring roll is a very popular Asian version of crepe. Basically, it consists of a circular or square rice paper (think of thin crepe made of rice), wrapping around some foodstuff, sealed with some corn flour mixture and deep fried. The ingredients can be sweet or savory.
It can be served as a salad in its fresh form, called popiah.
In short, spring roll = deep fried popiah
Ingredients: (Serve 5, cook time 10 minutes)
5 pieces of popiah skin or bean sheets, readily available at supermarkets frozen section. To be thawed or steamed before use.
5 lettuce leaves
5 tsp of chili sauce or tomato sauce
5 tbsp hoisin or seafood sauce
(A) main stuff:
400 g yam bean, shredded
3 pips garlic, chopped
2 mushrooms, shredded
2 carrots, shredded
1 cup chicken broth
salt and pepper to taste
Method for cooking (A):
Heat 2 tbsp cooking oil in a wok. Fry the garlic and mushroom till fragrant.
Add carrot and yam bean, stir fry for 3 minutes. Add chicken broth, simmer for 5 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste.
(B) Additional stuff:
1 piece tofu, chopped finely and pan-fried
5 tbsp crispy fried onion
2 eggs, beaten, pan fried and shredded
100 g minced prawns or minced pork, stir- fried till just cooked
100 g crab meat or crab sticks, cooked
Arrangement each ingredient in separate tray e.g. trays for lettuce, tofu, fried onion, omelet, chili sauce, minced meat, popiah skin. There can be as many as 10 - 15 trays of cooked ingredients, like peanut, shredded French beans, blanched bean sprouts, crab sticks and chopped Chinese sausage, too.
To make a popiah:
Lay a piece of bean sheet neatly on a serving plate.
Carefully smear a thin layer of chili/tomato sauce on it.
Smear the hoisin sauce too (optional).
Place a lettuce leaf on top.
Place 1 small scoop of the main ingredients A (drained); on top the lettuce.
Add bits of every ingredients(B) according to you liking, neatly arrange the bulb into a 12cmx5cm strip.
Wrap and secure into a roll.
Serve immediately. It is a fresh and tasty salad!
Popiah is a pot-luck favorite, or a barbecue favorite, when it is served as a complementary salad. Guests is expected to make their own popiah, choosing combination ingredients of their liking. It is fun!!
To make the spring roll from here:
Exclude the use of lettuce leave, and deep fry the popiah in hot oil, the way you fry fritters and croquettes.
Serve hot while the spring roll skin is crispy.
The whole preparation may sound complication, but do not worry, only my description is lengthy!! Haha.....bear with my language weakness!!
In actual case, it takes 1 minute to prepare from the ready ingredients, and less than 1 minute to finish it down into your stomach!
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