Vegetable Spring Roll

Vegetable Spring Roll  - A Chinese dish usually served as a starter but tastes good in the middle as well as the end of the meal or to snack anytime of the day.









INGREDIENTS

  • FOR THE PANCAKES:
  • Flour                                1 cup
  • Milk                                 2 cups
  • Soda-bi-carbonate           A pinch
  • Oil                                   2 tsps.
  • Oil                                   for shallow frying
  • Salt                                  ½ tsp.
  • FOR THE STUFFING:
  • French beans                   50 gms.
  • Carrots                            50 gms.
  • Cabbage                          100 gms.
  • Bean sprouts                    100 gms.
  • Onions(finely chopped)     2 nos.
  • Capsicum(thinely sliced)    2 nos.
  • Soya sauce                       1 tsp.
  • White pepper                   ½ tsp.
  • Sugar                                ½ tsp.
  • Ajinomoto                        ½ tsp.
  • Oil                                   3 tbsps.
  • Salt and pepper               to taste
METHOD

For making the Pancakes:

1. Sift salt and flour. Add milk gradually, beating well
to make a smooth thin batter for the pancakes.

2. Add soda-bi-carbonate and mix well.

3. Heat a non stick pan. Pour a little batter on it and
tilt the pan so that batter spreads evenly.

4. Remove when the under side is cooked. Do not cook
the other side.

5. Make the remaining pancake in the same way and keep
it in a napkin one on top of the other.

To Prepare The Filling:

1. Cut the vegetables(except beansprouts) into thin long stripes.

2. Heat the oil in a kadhai. Add onions, sprouts
and vegetables and stir fry for 5 minutes.

3. Add ajinomoto, salt, pepper and sugar and
fry for further 3 minutes.

4. Add soya sauce and mix well.

Assembling:

1. Take the pancake and place little filling on the
cooked side, at one end which is nearest to you.

2. Fold the left side and then the right side.
Holding the sides, roll upwards. Seal the edges with
cornflour paste, made by dissolving 1 tsp.
of cornflour in 1 tsp. ofwater.

3. Heat some oil in a pan and shallow fry the rolls
on all sides till golden brown.

4. Drain on a paper napkin and cut diagonally
into 1 inches pieces.

5. Serve hot with chili-garlic sauce.


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