Ingredients
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1 lb ground pork
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1 large onion, chopped
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6 tablespoons garlic, minced (at least)
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1 -2 teaspoon fresh ginger (no powder please)
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3 big carrots (chopped or shredded)
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1/2-3/4 head napa cabbage (shredded or chopped,regular will work fine)
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1 -2 cup bean sprouts (fresh please, leave them out if you do not like them)
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celery
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cilantro
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hot pepper, chopped
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salt and pepper
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25 egg roll wraps or 25 lumpia skins, the thin ones, i get them in the freezer section of my local Asian market
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water chestnut
Instructions
- Brown the meat in a large pan.
- Add onion, garlic, ginger, carrots and some salt and pepper halfway through.
- Remove from heat when carrots are tender.
- Stir in cabbage and bean sprouts, this will help cool the mixture down.
- Taste it now and see if it needs any more salt, good huh.
- Drain this mixture VERY WELL, moisture is you enemy in this recipe.
- I put it in a colander with a plate on top and a weight.
- It will look like there are more veggies than meat, that is a good thing.
- Blot it with a paper towel, it does not have to be bone dry, just not puddling and it needs to be cool before rolling.
- We are almost there, have a glass of wine while you are waiting for it to cool!
- Stir occasionally in the colander to get the hiding moisture.
- Lay the wrapper so that one point is towards you.
- Put about about 3 tablespoons of mixture across the wrapper.
- Here is where I add a bit of cilantro, green onion, chopped hot pepper.
- Fold the point that is pointing at you up over the mixture.
- Now fold the corner on the right over that, now the point on the left and begin to roll till you get to the end.
- Moisten the last point and finish the roll.
- Freeze these individually on a cookie sheet covered with plastic wrap than put in freezer bags unless you are eating them right away.
- To cook them remove to a cookie sheet (do not thaw) and spray them with Pam, Bratty used garlic flavored and said it was good.
- Bake at 350 for about 10 minutes, turn over and spray again and bake another 10 to 15 minutes.
- They will not get all brown like fried ones but they will be crispy and delicious.