Total Steps
5
Ingredients
19
Tools Needed
3
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons Garlic, minced
- 1.5 tablespoons Corn starch
- 1 cup Brown sugar
- 1 cup Water
- 1/4 cup Cooking oil
- to taste Salt(optional)
- to taste Fish sauce(optional)
- 1 small Cooking onion, sliced
- 2 cloves Garlic
- 4 pieces Bean curd (firm tofu), julienne strips
- 1 cup Chicken breast, cut in small strips
- 1 cup Shrimps, shelled and deveined
- 1/4 cup Chinese parsley (cilantro)
- 1/2 cup Garbanzos (chickpeas)
- 1 cup Sweet yam, julienne strips
- 3 cups Cabbage, shredded
- 2 cups Green beans, julienne strips
- 2 cups Carrot, julienne strips
- 3 cups Rutabagas, julienne strips
Instructions
Step 1
Lumpia is a traditional Filipino appetizer, not unlike eggrolls.
Step 2
Sauté the 2 cloves of garlic in cooking oil until light brown. Add chicken and sliced onion, then season with fish sauce. Remove from pan. Repeat the process with the shrimp, stir-frying quickly and removing immediately. Return the chicken-onion mixture to the pan, then add green beans, garbanzos, carrots, rutabagas, yam, cabbage, and bean curd in sequence. Add a little stock (if desired) and simmer until desired tenderness. Season with salt and fish sauce to taste. Add Chinese parsley just before removing from the pan.
Step 3
To assemble the lumpia, you will need lumpia wrappers (commercially available) and romaine, green, red, or butter lettuce.
Step 4
For the Lumpia Sauce: Bring the water to a boil. Add the brown sugar to the boiling water and stir until dissolved. Remove 1/4 cup of the syrup, add the cornstarch, blend into a slurry, and return to the pot. Remove from heat when thickened. Mix in the minced garlic (2 tablespoons).
Step 5
Note: Lumpia (LOOM-pee-ah) is a Philippine version of the egg roll. It consists of a lumpia wrapper (a thin skin made of flour or cornstarch, eggs, and water) wrapped around a filling and fried. Sometimes a lettuce leaf is used to enfold the filling mixture, in which case lumpia is not fried. The filling can be made of chopped raw or cooked vegetables, meat, or a combination. Lumpia can be served as an appetizer or side dish.