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I might dub these DELICIOUS egg rolls, the Han Solo Egg Rolls. Why you ask? Because they saved me from imminent pain and anguish, just in the nick of time. Shall I explain?
So let me tell you the story peeps. There’s this restaurant where we live called Lulu’s Asian Bistro. On Valentine’s Day (2014) we visited this place and I enjoyed the best egg drop soup that I’ve had in a LONG time. It was so good that I made the determination to recreate it myself. Do you want to know how many times I tried? Five. Five miserable and failed attempts. My Richter Rage Scale was at an 8.9, at least. The waves of anger emanating from me were felt in Bora Bora. Just ask Sarah – I vowed to never cook again.
30 minutes later I made these…
Easy Homemade Egg Rolls
Recipe adapted from All Recipes
Makes 8-12 egg rolls
Ingredients:
- 1 lb ground turkey (or pork… or chicken.. whatevs)
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 1/2 cups shredded cabbage (about a quarter-head)
- 1 cup shredded carrots
- 1 quart peanut oil — now this stuff is expen$ive, if you want to save the pennies, just buy a 1 1/2 pint bottle like I did and cook only a few rolls at a time. But I’m telling you, peanut oil is the way to go.
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 1 tablespoon water
- 8-12 egg roll wrappers (depends on how big/stuffed you want them — we ended up with 12)
Directions:
- Start warming your peanut oil in a pot to about 350ºF.
- Brown your ground turkey/chicken/pork in a large skillet on medium-high heat. If you use pork, make sure to spoon out most of the fat after it browns. Season the meat with the ginger, garlic salt, onion powder and salt. Remove from heat.
- Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, combine the cabbage and carrots. Add the meat to it and mix well.
- Combine the flour and water in a small bowl to make a paste and set aside for a moment.
- Lay an egg roll wrapper with one of the points pointed toward you. Place about 1/4 to 1/3 cup of the cabbage mixture in the middle of your wrapper. Fold the closest point away from you, over the top of the mixture. Bring in the left and right points to the center. Rub a small amount of paste over the remaining corner of the egg roll and then roll the bundle away from you, over the last point.
- When your oil is hot enough, place an egg roll or two in the pot. Let the egg rolls sizzle for about 10 seconds and turn them over for another 10 seconds or so. When the egg rolls start to brown, remove from oil and place on a paper towel (they will brown a little more even after removed… don’t burn them!). That’s it!
I hope you guys really enjoy your HSERs… what? You don’t know what that is? Have you been paying attention at all? Han Solo Egg Rolls! Maybe they will save you just in the nick of time too – so easy, so delicious, no joke.
Stay tuned for attempt SIX of the ever elusive Perfect Egg Drop Soup. If you hear any explosions this weekend, it might actually just be my rage if this attempt doesn’t work.
-Zach
Fingers Crossed that you get the Soup just the way you want it!! These egg rolls are making me seriously hungry right now!
why can’ti print out recipe
use 1 lb of jimmy dean sausage and 1 bag of cole slaw mix to cut time with the slicing of cabbage and carrots, add the salt, pepper, garlic and ginger and they are the bomb!
those egg rolls look amazing, sorry about the soup 🙁
I have been looking for a recipe to make my own egg roll wrappers. Any suggestions as the commercial ones have yellow dye listed on the label.I tried making crepes and using them but wasn’t happy with results.
Thanks
Sounds delicious! I’ve never tried making my own egg rolls.
These egg rolls look so good! We love egg rolls and I will be trying yours for sure 🙂
I add water chestnuts & bean sprouts to mine.
You can make anything in to a egg roll I use a food processor to make all ingredients super fine my kids don’t even know there are veggies in it
Can these be baked instead of fried? Trying to cut back on the amount of fried food we eat but I LOVE egg rolls!
What kind of sauce is pictured for dipping?
Thanks Robyn
This is probably a dumb question. But how long and how do you cook the cabbage?
Made these egg rolls for the first time in my life! I made both ground beef and ground pork. I used sesame oil in both my mixtures as well as pepper flakes and teriyaki sauce. Came out great! I had a few left over wrappers, so I put in sliced bananas and nutella, then topped with powder sugar and drizzled chocolate sauce. Wow! So good!
Does this freeze well?!
This is pretty much the way I do them. One addition: a large, cleaned, tail removed shrimp in addition to the pork. Then they’re perfect.
Can these be frozen ahead?
What do you mean by “paste”?
Just made these egg rolls, followed directions completely and I must say they turned out very good. Thank you