Pork & Shrimp Eggrolls

Ingredients:
iv cups shredded napa cabbage
2/3 loving cup diced char siu
1/2 loving cup diced, peeled & cooked shrimp (or 1/2 loving cup cooked tiny "salad" shrimp)
half dozen (fresh) shiitake mushrooms, minced
1 carrot, julienned
three greenish onions, thinly sliced
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger or ginger juice

for the sauce:
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon rice vino vinegar
1 tablespoon dark vinegar
1 tablespoon oyster sauce
1/2 tablespoon cornstarch mixed amongst 1/2 tablespoon water



1 lb parcel refrigerated or defrosted frozen egg curlicue wrappers*
1 egg beaten amongst 2 tablespoons water

Directions:
Whisk together the sauce ingredients. Heat inward a pocket-size pan, whisking until the cornstarch has dissolved. Set aside. Quickly saute the vegetables, ginger, garlic, shrimp together with pork until the cabbage is but starting to wilt. Remove from heat. Add sauces together with toss to evenly distribute. Allow to cool slightly. Heat canola crude to 350. Place a pocket-size sum of filling (about 1/4 cup) inward the middle of the egg curlicue inward kind of a log shape on each wrapper. Place the wrapper thus it similar a diamond inward front end of you lot thus plication each side towards the middle together with curlicue towards the top. Seal each seam amongst the egg wash. Paint the seams 1 time again amongst egg wash. If you lot detect that your egg rolls leak, effort using less filling, the size of egg curlicue wrappers vary slightly yesteryear brand. Fry until golden, flipping occasionally, drain on newspaper towel lined plates.

Yield: close 10 egg rolls

*Not trammel curlicue wrappers, non lumpia wrappers or rice newspaper wrappers. Look for them inward the refrigerated department (normally close tofu or fresh noodles) or inward the freezer department of a good stocked supermarket or Asian market. Try to detect an Asian construct for best results.

My thoughts:

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H5N1 proficient egg curlicue is a affair of beauty. H5N1 bad egg curlicue is a soggy, oily, bland mess. Luckily it isn't terribly hard to construct egg rolls at home. Even the frying adverse tin grip it, they float together with exercise non need to hold upwards deep fried. Plus you lot instruct to lay whatever you lot desire inward it! I similar shrimp together with pork together with lots of cabbage inward mine together with of course, I prefer the slightly chewy peel of an egg curlicue verses the splintery crisper wrapper of the trammel rolls some restaurants effort to top off equally egg rolls. They genuinely aren't hard to construct at all, it but involves a lot of chopping. I genuinely similar construct them the same solar daytime I construct lo mein because they role a lot of the same ingredients which makes the prep for both operate easier. These egg rolls guide maintain a lot of season from the diverse flavors together with well, people are e'er impressed when you lot construct something equally ubiquitous inward the takeout the world equally egg rolls at home. The fact that they are to a greater extent than flavorful together with fresher tasting than their deportment out compatriots is almost icing on the cake.

Now, I take away heed egg rolls freeze good together with I froze 1 to hand to friend to exam this theory out but fifty-fifty living inward a 2 individual family nosotros tin easily blow through the whole batch inward a twosome of days. If you lot exercise desire to freeze them, identify them (fully cooked)in a air tight container inward the freezer. Then when gear upwards to consume identify them (frozen) inward the oven on a newspaper towel lined pan at 325 until heated through.