Lumpia (Filipino egg rolls)

 Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1 pound ground pork or 1 pound ground beef of 1/2 pound each
• ½ cup chopped onion
• 4-6 cloves garlic, crushed and diced
• ½ cup minced carrots
• ½ cup chopped green onions
• ½ cup thinly sliced green cabbage
• 1/4 cup raisins (optional, but highly suggested)
• Bamboo shoots (optional)
• Grated Ginger (about 1" of ginger)
• salt & pepper to taste
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/2 teaspoon Mrs Dash Garlic & Herb
• 1/2 teaspoon Mrs Dash Extra Spicy
• 1+ teaspoon soy sauce, or as needed
• 30 lumpia wrappers
• 2 cups vegetable oil for frying, or as needed

Directions

1. All Ingredients need to be very finely diced/minced.
2. Chop or mince anyway you want to get all vegetables chopped finely.
3. Heat the 1 Tablespoon vegetable oil in a large frying pan and cook the pork thoroughly, so no pink is visible. Chop the meat as it is cooking to make it into fine crumbles.
4. Add the spices and salt & pepper to the cooking meat.
5. Remove the meat to a separate plate and leave some of the fat behind, or add more vegetable oil to saute the onions, carrots and garlic first, then add the remaining ingredients except raisins and cook until tender.
6. Add the meat back to the pan and mix thoroughly.
7. Add the raisins and soy sauce and cook an additional 2 minutes.
8. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
9. Place the Lumpia wrapper so that one of the corners is pointing toward you.
10. Add about 2 Tablespoons of the filling to the closest corner area of the Lumpia Wrapper near you. Fold the sides toward the middle and roll the Lumpia wrapper up away from you. The last 1/4th of the wrapper moisten your finger in a cup of water to smooth some on the wrapper and finish rolling it up. This causes the wrapper to seal the edges.
11. While rolling the Lumpia, pour approx 2 cups of vegetable oil in a large pot to get it hot. I use a laser thermometer and when the oil is 390-405, it is ready for the lumpia to be placed in.
12. Only add four lumpia at a time in the oil. 30 seconds, turn them over for 30 seconds, remove them to a paper towel to drain.
13. Note: the wrappers will continue to cook after you take them out of the oil.
14. Wait until oil returns to 390-405 degrees.
15. Repeat the process until all wrappers are cooked.
16. Eat when hot and the wrapper is nice and crispy.
17. The wrappers will become soggy after they cool. Reheat in a frying pan turning constantly.
18. Use sweet and sour sauce or sweet chile sauce or a orange sauce for dipping.

Air Fryer Directions

• 5 minutes at 370 deg, flip the rolls over and cook an additional 3 minutes at 370 deg.