Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup ground chicken
- 1 small carrot, finely shredded
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 3 tbsp. green beans, chopped
- 1 tbsp. leeks, chopped
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1 egg, beaten
- lumpia wrappers
Procedure:
1. Combine all ingredients except the lumpia wrapper.
2. Season with salt and pepper depending on your taste.
3. Scoop 1 teaspoon of the mixture in a lumpia wrapper and wrap it tightly. Secure the ends with water and press gently to seal.
4. Repeat step until all chicken shanghai mixture is done.
5. In a deep pan with hot oil, deep fry all chicken shanghai until golden brown.
6. Drain on paper towels and transfer to a serving dish and serve it with your favorite dipping sauce.
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Lumpia, as we call it here in the Philippines, was influenced by the Chinese which they called egg rolls/ spring rolls can be found every part of the country and in every festivities, lunch, snacks, breakfast, and dinner. There are different kinds of mixtures stuffed in it.
The most common ones are minced pork lumpia, fresh lumpia (fresh rice wrapper with veggies drizzled with peanut sauce), and lumpiang togue (deep-fried lumpia with mung bean sprout and other veggies dipped in vinegar). Lumpia can either be deep-fried or can be fresh depending on the stuffing or mixture you put in. The dipping sauce can be different as well depending on your stuffing like if deep-fried lumpia with meat stuffing, you can use ketchup, mayo with ketchup or garlic mayo. But if you use vegetable stuffing you might want to use vinegar which is the most common dipping sauce but if you use fresh veggies and fresh wrapper peanut sauce is the best partner.
During birthdays or any events, lumpia is always a part of the food choices because it's really good and we Filipinos love eating it. 😊
How about you, how do you want your lumpia? Enjoy cooking everyone!
