Chinese Egg Roll Wrap Food

COPYCAT TAKEOUT EGG ROLLS

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Put the cabbage, carrots, and celery into the boiling water and cook for about 2 minutes. Transfer the veggies to an ice bath and drain. Thoroughly squeeze out all the excess water from the vegetables (you can put the drained veggies in a clean kitchen towel and squeeze out the water). This is a very important step because if the filling is too wet, you will have a wet filling and soggy egg rolls!
• Once dry, transfer the veggies to a large mixing bowl. Add the scallions, salt, sugar, sesame oil, 2 tablespoons oil, five spice powder (if using), white pepper, roast pork, and cooked shrimp (if using). Toss everything together. The filling is ready to be wrapped!
• To wrap the egg rolls, take a small fistful of filling, squeeze it a little in your hand until it is compressed together, and place it on the wrapper. The wrapping method is similar to that of a burrito. Just add a thin layer of egg to make sure it stays sealed. Line them up on a lightly floured surface, and continue assembling until you run out of ingredients.
• In a small pot, heat oil to 325 degrees. You don't need too much-just enough to submerge the egg rolls. Carefully place a couple egg rolls into the oil, and fry them for about 5 minutes until golden brown. Keep them moving in the oil to make sure they fry evenly.
• Cool slightly and serve! Freeze leftovers in freezer bags and reheat them in the oven at 350 degrees, until crispy.

CHINESE EGG ROLLS

Steps:

• Brown pork with ginger and garlic in pan; drain any grease.
• Mix salt, sugar, soy sauce and sesame oil. Add to pork and mix well.
• In large bowl combine cabbage mix and green onions.
• Pour hot meat over vegetables and stir well. Let cool slightly.
• Lay wrap in front of you so that it looks like a diamond.
• Place 3 tablespoons pork filling in center of egg roll wrapper.
• Fold bottom point up over filling and roll once.
• Fold in right and left points.
• Brush beaten egg on top point.
• Finish rolling.
• Set aside and repeat with remaining filling.
• Heat 2-3 inches oil in large frying pan to very hot (350ºF).
• Fry a few egg rolls in pan at a time, 2-3 minutes per side.
• Drain on paper towels.
• Serve with sweet and sour sauce, plum sauce, hoisin sauce or jalapeño pepper jelly.

CHINESE EGG ROLL WRAP

Steps:

• Place all the ingredients in a blender, blend for 1 minute.
• Scrape down the sides, blend for a few seconds more until smooth.
• Refrigerate for 1 hour.
• To Cook-----------------.
• A- Use upside down crepe pan& follow instructions or B- Use a non stick skillet, you do not need oil or additional fat on the pan.
• Pour a little batter in the pan, tilt the pan and turn the pan to spread an even thin layer of batter on the bottom of the pan.
• Cook over medium heat for a minute or two (these wraps will not be brown when they are cooked but will brown when you fill and fry them later).
• Flip the wrap and cook second side for a few seconds.
• When freshly cooked these are very easy to fill and fold, I recommend to have your filling ready and fill each one as it comes off the pan.
• Filling suggestion available under Chinese recipes here on Zaar.
• You may now continue to fry the egg rolls or wrap them in plastic wrap& foil and freeze them for future use.

CHINESE EGG ROLL CREPES

Steps:

• Mix chicken, vegetables, onion, ginger, almonds, soy sauce, sugar, and extract (if used).
• Place about 2 tablespoons mixture on each crepe; fold over sides and roll up.
• Seal edges with a little leftover batter or use a slightly beaten egg for the glue.
• Heat oil to about 350 degrees and drop each egg roll into the hot oil and fry till golden.
• Drain; cut into smaller pieces if desired; serve hot with a sweet and sour duck sauce (I use La Choy Sweet and Sour Duck Sauce).

CHINESE EGG ROLLS

Steps:

• Make filling:
• Stir together oyster sauce, soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar, and salt in a small bowl until sugar and salt are dissolved.
• Heat a dry 12-inch heavy skillet (not nonstick) over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking, then add 2 tablespoons peanut oil, swirling skillet to coat. Stir-fry ginger, garlic, and scallions until scallions are wilted, about 1 minute. Add celery, carrots, and mushrooms and stir-fry until vegetables are softened, 4 to 6 minutes. Push vegetables toward edge of skillet, then add shrimp to center and stir-fry until shrimp are just cooked through, 3 to 5 minutes. Add pork and oyster sauce mixture and stir together all ingredients in skillet until combined. Season with salt and transfer to a large shallow bowl. Cool, stirring occasionally, about 30 minutes.
• Make egg rolls:
• Gently peel apart wrappers to separate if necessary (wrappers may not be perfectly square).
• Put 1 wrapper on a work surface, arranging wrapper with a corner nearest you and keeping remaining wrappers covered with plastic wrap. Stir filling, then spread a scant 1/4 cup filling horizontally across center of wrapper to form a 4-inch log. Fold bottom corner over filling, then fold in side corners. Brush top corner with egg and roll up wrapper tightly to enclose filling, sealing roll closed with top corner. Transfer roll, seam side down, to a paper-towel-lined baking sheet and loosely cover with plastic wrap. Make more egg rolls in same manner, transferring to baking sheet as formed (you may have some filling left over).
• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 250°F. Line a large colander with paper towels. Heat 1 inch peanut oil in a 5- to 6-quart wide heavy pot until it registers 350°F on thermometer, then fry 4 or 5 egg rolls (don't crowd pot), turning with a slotted spoon, until golden brown, 3 to 5 minutes. Transfer with slotted spoon to colander and drain rolls upright 2 to 3 minutes, then keep warm on a rack set on a large baking sheet in oven. Fry remaining egg rolls in batches, transferring to colander and then to rack in oven.

BEST EVER CHINESE EGG ROLLS

Steps:

• Heat water in saucepan to boiling, add cabbage, celery and cook 4 minutes.
• Remove from heat, drain.
• Heat heavy skillet.
• Cook pork 2-3 minutes, remove from heat.
• Stir in bean sprouts, cabbage, green onions, celery mixture.
• Heat 2-3 minutes more.
• Vegetables should be crisp.
• Pile 1-2 tbsp filling diagonally across each egg roll skin.
• Fold over from each end and roll.
• Mix together batter: flour, egg, cold water.
• Place the egg rolls at once in batter and then in deep fat until golden color.

CHINESE EGG ROLLS

Steps:

• HINT: Put egg roll wrappers in freezer the night before and then thaw about 1 hour before using.
• This seems to make them separate more easily.
• Brown pork with 1 TBS soy sauce in wok, drain, remove from wok, and set aside.
• Add peanut oil to wok and stir-fry vegetables until slightly wilted.
• (3 or 4 minutes) Combine pork and vegetables in wok.
• Mix well soy sauce, hoisin sauce, chili paste, and cornstarch.
• Add to meat-vegetable mix and stir until mixture becomes quite thick.
• Mixture should be very sticky with a minimum of moisture.
• Cool mixture to room temperature.
• Place egg roll wrapper on hard, flat surface with one corner pointing towards you.
• Place 1/3 cup meat-vegetable mixture in center of wrapper.
• Fold lower corner over and then under meat mixture, squeezing as much air out as possible.
• Brush exposed egg roll wrapper edges with egg wash.
• Fold side corners over egg roll.
• Finish by rolling egg roll towards upper corner, again squeezing out as much air as possible.
• Deep fry until golden brown.
• NOTE: finely minced, cooked shrimp or browned, ground chicken may be substituted for pork.
• DIPPING SAUCES FOR EGG ROLLS.
• Catsup-horseradish (1/4 cup catsup, 1 TBS prepared horseradish).
• Soy Sauce/Hoisin (3 TBS soy sauce, 1 1/2 tsp hoisin sauce).
• Catsup/Hot Mustard (Place equal amounts side-by-side – do NOT mix).
• Sweet and Sour Sauce (commercially available).
• Plum Sauce (commercially available).
• Teriyaki Sauce (commercially available).

EGG ROLL WRAPPERS

Steps:

• Combine ingredients to make a dough.
• Cover and let rest for 10 minutes.
• Knead until smooth and elastic.
• Divide into 16 pieces.
• Roll into 6 inch squares.
• (Dough should be very thin).
• Stack rolled squares separately with wax paper between each one.
• Keep covered so they will not dry out while making the entire recipe of wrappers.
• Fill by making a line of your favorite filling about 1/2 from top and side edges.
• Fold in each side over filling.
• Brush on a small amount of saved egg along remaining side edges and the bottom edge.
• Roll from the top to the bottom and press lightly so it will seal.
• Fry at 350 degrees until golden brown.