WeRead Powered by ReaderPub
Chinese recipes cover

Chinese recipes

Chapter 19: SPRING ROLLS
Open in WeRead

Explore more books like this:

About This Book

A practical collection of home-style Chinese recipes accompanied by explanatory notes on common seasonings, ingredient substitutions, and suggested quantities. It offers measured, step-by-step directions for tea, soups, rice dishes, seafood and meat preparations, vegetable dishes, fried dim-sum–style items, sauces and simple puddings, with techniques such as frying, deep-frying and cornstarch-thickened gravies. Many recipes state serving amounts and include kitchen tips for adapting traditional ingredients to widely available shortenings and groceries. The overall approach emphasizes straightforward instructions to help cooks reproduce authentic flavors using accessible methods and supplies.

SPRING ROLLS

4 large thin membranes from the
fat of lard
1 cup of cold ham, sliced fine
¼ cup mushrooms, sliced fine
¼ cup onions or celery, sliced fine
⅛ cup bamboo shoots, sliced fine
4 teaspoons soy bean sauce
1 teaspoon salt
⅛ teaspoon pepper

Fry onions, bamboo shoots, mushrooms and ham in a frying pan with a little vegetable oil or lard, season the mixture with pepper and a dash of soy bean sauce. Remove ingredients from pan. Spread the mixtures evenly on each of the lard membranes. Roll them up as you would jelly rolls. Be sure to roll the mixtures together tightly. Drop each roll into the deep hot fat. As soon as a roll turns brown and crisp, remove it from the fat and drain off the oil on a piece of paper.

The spring rolls should always be sliced slantwise and served hot.