Chinese Egg Rolls Recipes

Steps:

• Heat 1 teaspoon vegetable oil in a wok or large skillet over medium heat. Pour in beaten eggs and cook, without stirring, until firmed. Flip the eggs over and cook for an additional 20 seconds to firm the other side. Set egg pancake aside to cool, then slice into thin strips.
• Heat the remaining vegetable oil in a wok or large skillet over high heat. Stir in cabbage and carrot; cook for 2 minutes to wilt. Add bamboo, mushroom, pork, green onions, soy sauce, salt, sugar, and MSG; continue cooking until the vegetables soften, about 6 minutes. Stir in sliced egg, then spread mixture out onto a pan, and refrigerate until cold, about 1 hour.
• To assemble the egg rolls, place a wrapper onto your work surface with one corner pointing towards you. Place about 3 tablespoons of cooled filling in a heap onto the bottom third of the wrapper. Brush a little beaten egg white onto the top two edges of the wrapper, then fold the bottom corner over the filling and roll firmly to the halfway point. Fold the left and right sides snugly over the egg roll, then continue rolling until the top corners seal the egg roll with the egg white. Repeat with remaining egg roll wrappers, covering finished egg rolls with plastic wrap to keep from drying out.
• Heat about 6-inches of oil in a wok or deep-fryer to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Fry egg rolls 3 or 4 at a time until golden brown, 5 to 7 minutes. Drain on paper towels.

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 400 degrees F. Unfold the pastry sheets on a lightly floured surface. Cut each pastry sheet into 4 (about 5-inch) squares.
• Stir the vegetables, chicken and hoisin sauce in a medium bowl. Spoon about 1/4 cup vegetable mixture on the lower third of each pastry square. Fold 2 sides over the filling and roll up like a jelly roll. Place the filled pastries seam-side down onto a baking sheet. Brush the pastries with the egg and sprinkle with the sesame seeds, if desired.
• Bake for 20 minutes or until the pastries are golden brown.

Steps:

• Heat water in saucepan to boiling, add cabbage, celery and cook 4 minutes.
• Remove from heat, drain.
• Heat heavy skillet.
• Cook pork 2-3 minutes, remove from heat.
• Stir in bean sprouts, cabbage, green onions, celery mixture.
• Heat 2-3 minutes more.
• Vegetables should be crisp.
• Pile 1-2 tbsp filling diagonally across each egg roll skin.
• Fold over from each end and roll.
• Mix together batter: flour, egg, cold water.
• Place the egg rolls at once in batter and then in deep fat until golden color.

Steps:

• Brown pork with ginger and garlic in pan; drain any grease.
• Mix salt, sugar, soy sauce and sesame oil. Add to pork and mix well.
• In large bowl combine cabbage mix and green onions.
• Pour hot meat over vegetables and stir well. Let cool slightly.
• Lay wrap in front of you so that it looks like a diamond.
• Place 3 tablespoons pork filling in center of egg roll wrapper.
• Fold bottom point up over filling and roll once.
• Fold in right and left points.
• Brush beaten egg on top point.
• Finish rolling.
• Set aside and repeat with remaining filling.
• Heat 2-3 inches oil in large frying pan to very hot (350ºF).
• Fry a few egg rolls in pan at a time, 2-3 minutes per side.
• Drain on paper towels.
• Serve with sweet and sour sauce, plum sauce, hoisin sauce or jalapeño pepper jelly.

Steps:

• HINT: Put egg roll wrappers in freezer the night before and then thaw about 1 hour before using.
• This seems to make them separate more easily.
• Brown pork with 1 TBS soy sauce in wok, drain, remove from wok, and set aside.
• Add peanut oil to wok and stir-fry vegetables until slightly wilted.
• (3 or 4 minutes) Combine pork and vegetables in wok.
• Mix well soy sauce, hoisin sauce, chili paste, and cornstarch.
• Add to meat-vegetable mix and stir until mixture becomes quite thick.
• Mixture should be very sticky with a minimum of moisture.
• Cool mixture to room temperature.
• Place egg roll wrapper on hard, flat surface with one corner pointing towards you.
• Place 1/3 cup meat-vegetable mixture in center of wrapper.
• Fold lower corner over and then under meat mixture, squeezing as much air out as possible.
• Brush exposed egg roll wrapper edges with egg wash.
• Fold side corners over egg roll.
• Finish by rolling egg roll towards upper corner, again squeezing out as much air as possible.
• Deep fry until golden brown.
• NOTE: finely minced, cooked shrimp or browned, ground chicken may be substituted for pork.
• DIPPING SAUCES FOR EGG ROLLS.
• Catsup-horseradish (1/4 cup catsup, 1 TBS prepared horseradish).
• Soy Sauce/Hoisin (3 TBS soy sauce, 1 1/2 tsp hoisin sauce).
• Catsup/Hot Mustard (Place equal amounts side-by-side – do NOT mix).
• Sweet and Sour Sauce (commercially available).
• Plum Sauce (commercially available).
• Teriyaki Sauce (commercially available).

Steps:

• Make filling:
• Stir together oyster sauce, soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar, and salt in a small bowl until sugar and salt are dissolved.
• Heat a dry 12-inch heavy skillet (not nonstick) over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking, then add 2 tablespoons peanut oil, swirling skillet to coat. Stir-fry ginger, garlic, and scallions until scallions are wilted, about 1 minute. Add celery, carrots, and mushrooms and stir-fry until vegetables are softened, 4 to 6 minutes. Push vegetables toward edge of skillet, then add shrimp to center and stir-fry until shrimp are just cooked through, 3 to 5 minutes. Add pork and oyster sauce mixture and stir together all ingredients in skillet until combined. Season with salt and transfer to a large shallow bowl. Cool, stirring occasionally, about 30 minutes.
• Make egg rolls:
• Gently peel apart wrappers to separate if necessary (wrappers may not be perfectly square).
• Put 1 wrapper on a work surface, arranging wrapper with a corner nearest you and keeping remaining wrappers covered with plastic wrap. Stir filling, then spread a scant 1/4 cup filling horizontally across center of wrapper to form a 4-inch log. Fold bottom corner over filling, then fold in side corners. Brush top corner with egg and roll up wrapper tightly to enclose filling, sealing roll closed with top corner. Transfer roll, seam side down, to a paper-towel-lined baking sheet and loosely cover with plastic wrap. Make more egg rolls in same manner, transferring to baking sheet as formed (you may have some filling left over).
• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 250°F. Line a large colander with paper towels. Heat 1 inch peanut oil in a 5- to 6-quart wide heavy pot until it registers 350°F on thermometer, then fry 4 or 5 egg rolls (don't crowd pot), turning with a slotted spoon, until golden brown, 3 to 5 minutes. Transfer with slotted spoon to colander and drain rolls upright 2 to 3 minutes, then keep warm on a rack set on a large baking sheet in oven. Fry remaining egg rolls in batches, transferring to colander and then to rack in oven.

Steps:

• Mix pork with Chinese vegetables, onions, ginger, soy sauce, and sugar.
• Place about 2 tablespoons mixture on each crepe, fold over sides, and roll up.
• Seal edges with leftover crepe batter or a little flour water mixture.
• Cook in hot oil at 375° until golden brown.
• Drain.
• Serve hot.

Steps:

• In a large skillet over medium-high heat, brown beef, then mix in onion, garlic, 2 tablespoons soy sauce, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon pepper, 2 tablespoons sherry, and ginger. Continue to saute just until onions are tender. Transfer mixture to a bowl and set aside.
• In the same skillet, saute cabbage with water, 1 tablespoon oil, sugar, and remaining soy sauce, sherry, salt, and pepper. Continue to saute until cabbage is crisp-tender, about 5 minutes. Return meat mixture to pan and stir together with cabbage over low heat until heated through. Remove from heat.
• Pour oil into a deep pan and heat to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Fill each egg roll wrapper with approximately 1/4 cup of filling and roll up according to package directions. Fry in preheated oil until golden brown. Drain on paper towels and serve hot.