Fresh Lumpia
By: Moonglow
Published: Monday, December 21, 2009 - 1:27am

Ingredients




3 cups Cabbage, shredded
2 cups Green beans, julienne strips
2 cups Carrot, julienne strips
3 cups Rutabagas, julienne strips
1 cup Sweet yam, julienne strips
1/2 cup Garbanzos, (chick peas)
1/4 cup Chinese parsley, (cilantro)
1 cup Shrimps, shelled and deveined
1 cup Chicken breast, cut in small strips
4 piece bean curd, (firm tofu), julienne strips
2 Cloves garlic
1 small Cooking onion, sliced
Salt to taste
Fish sauce to taste
1/4 cup Cooking oil
1 cup Water
1 cup Brown sugar
1 1/2 tablespoons Corn starch
2 tablespoons Garlic, minced, up to 3

Preparation

1 Lumpia is a traditional Filipino appetizer, not unlike eggrolls. Recipe 2 Saute garlic in oil until light brown. Add chicken and onion. Season with fish sauce. Remove from pan. Repeat the process with the shrimp, but stir-frying quickly and remove from pan immediately. Return the chicken-onion mixture to the pan, add in sequences, green bean, garbanzos, carrot, rutabagas, yam, cabbage, bean curd. Add a little stock and allow to simmer until the desired tenderness. Season with salt, fish sauce to your taste. Add the Chinese parsley last, just before removing from the pan. 3 To assemble the lumpia, you will need:Lumpia wrapper - commercially available Romaine or green or red or butter lettuce 4 Lumpia Sauce:Bring the water to a boil. Add the 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 garlic. 5 NOTE: lumpia; lumpia wrapper [LOOM-pee-ah] This Philippine version of the EGG ROLL 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 of the two. Lumpia can be served as an appetizer or side dish.