This word, "lumpia", was foreign to me until this week. My next door neighbors, Ryan and Lisa, brought over a few little egg roll looking things that they call "lumpia". Interesting... and DELICIOUS!!! I dipped these deep fried babies into hot sauce mixed with Italian sauce and YUM!! It is a type of eggroll that comes from China, but Lisa and Ryan learned the recipe from their time living in Hawaii (lucky ducks!!). So simple to make and so, so good! So thanks to Lisa and ryan for the recipe, Brian and I loved them for dinner last night!
So what you need is a pound of ground beef/pork/turkey/chicken, seasonings of choice, egg roll wraps, 3-4 cups of shredded cabbage and cubed carrots, Crisco, butter/margarine, and a cup of warm water. (1 lb of meat should make ~12 lumpias)
First I browned my ground beef in a pan and added some onion powder, garlic powder, season salt, and a little cumin. After getting it browned, I sat it aside.
In a large saucepan, I put a large dollop of Crisco in over medium-high heat. I let it turn to the magical liquid it is while I worked on the veggie portion of the lumpia. **** You can use regular oil, next time I will use a pot and put enough oil to completely cover the lumpia so I don't have to flip them****
In a saucepan, I put 2-3 tablespoons of butter, and once it melted, I added the carrots and cabbage (I used the coleslaw mix in the pre-made salad section). I made sure my slaw was coated in the melted butter and placed a lid onto the pan to sweat it out. Once the cabbage loses the white hue and becomes more transparent, I took it off of the heat and added it to the browned meat.
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| You want all that condensation in there so they sweat out. |
I mixed the slaw and meat well and to each egg roll wrap, I added about a tablespoon of the mixture. I then wet three edges of the wrap. Place it so it looks like a diamond to you instead of a square. Fold up the bottom corner, fold in the edges and roll. Put a little water on the corner that creates your outside seal. I placed them into the hot grease seam side down. It only takes about 20 seconds before you need to flip them with tongs. They cook fast!
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| Lay it out. |
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| Adding water on the edges. |
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| Fold up. |
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| Fold sides in. |
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| Roll on over and put a little water on the seam. |
I dipped mine in equal parts of Texas Pete Hotsauce and Zesty Italian Dressing. My husband just went straight for the Ranch dressing. (He puts it on everything!!) More ideas for sauce: try these with salsa and sour cream and make them more of a Mexican dish or sweet and sour sauce or soy sauce to punch up the Chinese volume! I paired these with whole kernal corn and slices of tomato. Easy, easy dinner!!
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| Dinner tiiimmee!! |
I hope you enjoy making these easy little treats as much as I did. Try new things and play around with it and make it your own. These are perfect to make for a dinner party or making for lunch the next day. I will definitely make many variations of these!!
