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Spring rolls with pork

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Ingredients

- Minced pork (100g)
- Grated carrot (10g)
- Grated sweet potatoes (10g)
- 2 sliced shallots
- 2 glove of garlic (sliced)
- Some spring onion (cut into 2 cm long)
- ½ tea-spoon of salt
- ½ tea-spoon of black pepper
- ½ tea-spoon of sugar
- Rice-paper (choose the thinnest and flexible one)
- Cooking oil


Preparation

Mix the ingredients in a bowl (not cooking oil), then spread rice paper on a plate. Get a small amount of the mixture in the rice paper, then make one round and fold two ends, continue rolling till the end. Please lie the face down on the place to avoid opening.
• Technicality
The rolls are not loose or tight either. If it is loose, it will be open easily when frying.
If it is too tight, it will be hard to cook inside.
Cooking

Heat cooking oil in a wok till you can see burble coming up from the end of the chop-stick, slowly add the rolls in. Fry on low fire and turn it over very often until it gets yellow-brown color, it is done.

Homemade fish sauce
Put 3 gloves of garlic, half of large chili, one spoon of sugar in a mortar and crush it with a pestle till it gets well-combined, add 2 spoons of fish sauce, lime juice (one piece of lime), and 2 spoon of water.

 

 

Vegetarian spring rolls


Ingredients


(One portion = 30 rolls)
Carrot (grated)
Sweet potatoes (grated)
Taro/ Jam (grated)
Chinese mushroom (soaked in warm water to soften then slice thinly)
Vermicelli (soaked in warm water to soften then cut into 2 cm long)
Fresh tofu (crushed)
One egg (help to combine things together)
One spring onion (cut into 2 cm long)
1 tea spoon of salt, ½ tea spoon of black pepper, ½ tea spoon of sugar, thin rice-paper


Preparation
Mix all ingredients together in a basin (big bowl), use a spoon to get enough amount into spread rice-paper, fold both side to form the length of the roll, then roll all the way through.
Cooking
Heat ½ litter of vegetable oil in the pan for the heat of 140 degree. You can use the chop-stick to test the heat by seeing the bubble coming up from the ends of chop-sticks. Turn down the fire and gently add the rolls into the pan.
Turn them over till both side get golden-brown.


Making sauce for spring rolls
Add ½ of large chili, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 full spoon of sugar into a mortar, use a pestle to bound (crush) till it get well combined. Twist one piece of lemon/lime, then 3 spoon of fish sauce, 2 spoon of fresh water. Mix all together then deep a finger to try till it suit your taste.
Serving
Deep the fried spring rolls in the sauce and enjoy.