Vegetarian Spring Rolls Recipe

This Vegetarian Spring Rolls Recipe is a Chinese cuisine recipe, which we will bring today in its classic version

About the Recipe

Usually, this recipe cook by the Chinese people for Chinese New Year, which also coincides with the beginning of Spring according to the Chinese lunar calendar. That is why they are also called Spring Rolls.

Furthermore, Spring Rolls prepare with thin, transparent, and elastic layers, which we can buy ready-made or prepare ourselves in the form of crepes at home.

Also, the spring roll dough is easy to cook, just like phyllo dough. Compared to, in this recipe, we use hot water to make the dough. In this way, the crepe layers will be more elastic and durable to stuff easily and not tear when folded.

Also, the fillings recipes are numerous, with vegetables, chicken, with pork.
Traditional cooking is by frying spring rolls in the pan, but we can also cook them in the oven or steam.

Subsequently, when we make the spring rolls dough ourselves, we can choose to cook crepes on steam. In this way, we can fill them and consume them directly, especially for our kids is healthier not to fry them.

Of course, the filling cook according to the ingredients we will use.
Furthermore, Rice wine, soy sauce, or even balsamic vinegar mainly use for marinating the spring roll filling.
As well, you can use Chinese agrodolce sauce to accompany it.

Directions

Spring roll dough

• 200 g of flour 00 + as it needs for rolling
• salt
• 120 ml of hot water

Spring roll filling

• 1 spring onion or a small onion
• 1 medium carrot
• 150 g of white cabbage
• salt, pepper
• 2-3 tbsp of rice wine or the sake
• 1 tsp of soy sauce
• 1 egg white for folding spring rolls

Vegetal oil for frying and for rolling the dough

Directions

Spring Rolls Dough and Rolling it

1. As a start, we will make the dough. In a bowl, we will add flour, salt, and warm water gradually. Also, mix it with a fork.
2. Next, knead the dough by hand, being careful not to burn it at first. Then, when the dough is ready, we gather it with a cellophane bag and let it rest for an hour.
3. Passing the time, knead the dough for a few minutes until we have a soft dough.
4. Then, form a cylinder with the dough and divide it into pieces the size of a walnut.
5. Also, sprinkle the dough pieces with flour so that they do not stick.
6. Rounding them with our hands, we will roll them into small circles.
7. Next, we will oil each of them well on the surface and place 5-8 pieces on top of each other. You can also add a little flour between the noodles to separate them later.
8. The noodle discs should be the same size. First, we will try to press the joint of the layers with our fingers, trying to compress them easily. We should not squeeze tightly in the middle as they may stick and not separate after.
   
9. When we have opened as much as we can with our hands, we will continue to roll the layer with a small roller. Roll it lightly until you open a circle with a diameter of 15-20 cm.
10. In this way, we proceed with all layers

How cook the layers in the steam

1. First, put a pot of water to boil. Use a steam cooking set. Next, place a parchment sheet on the base of the steam cooker, and when the water boils, place the spring roll layer above it.
   
2. Then, let it cook for 6-8 minutes on steam. You will see that the layers will create bubbles. After, you can separate them easily from each other
   
3. Next, we transfer it on a clean kitchen napkin and separate the layers easily. Be careful not to tear them.
4. Then, place them on a plate and set aside to use fresh, fried, or in the oven
   

Spring roll filling

1. First, cut vegetables in thin julienne. In a pan, add a little oil and onion.
2. When the onion starts tender, add the carrots. Add the cabbage and a little salt. In this way, the vegetables season and retain their color.
   
3. We will cook them for a few minutes until they soften. Drizzle with rice wine or a tablespoon of rice brandy (Sake).
4. Next, pass it in a colander to remove excess fluids. After, place cooked vegetables in an open bowl by opening the vegetables with the fork to cool to preserve their color.
5. Before filling spring rolls, marinate the filling with soy sauce. Be careful with salt.

Folding Spring Rolls

1. First, take a layer. Add one spoonful of the filling in the corner of one side of it.
2. Then, fold the noodles over the filling and make a half turn.
3. Next, fold the right arm, then the left, again half-turn.
4. In the end, at the edge of the remained layer arch, we will paint it with egg white. Use your fingers for that.
5. Rotate it all the way and place the spring rolls on a kitchen napkin.
   It is how we end it all.

Cooking Spring Rolls

1. In a pan, add vegetal oil for frying. Then, let it heat well and fry the spring rolls on both sides until it turns reddish. They will fry quickly and.
2. Then, place them on kitchen paper to absorb the excess oil. Finally, serve them warm with the spring rolls sauce.

Bon Appetit!

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