Lola's Lumpia Recipe

One of my favorite foods to make is lumpia. As some people may not know, lumpia is like a Filipino egg roll... But better. I don’t know about you, but creating memories with your family is one of the best gifts that anyone can ask for. I’m grateful enough to have the opportunity to learn my Lola’s (lola is another term for Filipino grandmother) recipe for lumpia, and let me to tell you this, it is the bomb! Most people like to dip their lumpia in sauces like sweet and sour. But my Lola’s lumpia is so good that it’s already delicious on it’s own. That’s what’s great about lumpia, you can eat it however you want, but nothing can take away it’s authentic flavors. The tastes just brings me back to my family vacation to the Philippines and it was a trip so memorable that I want to return back to my homeland. The smells just reminds me of the food that was cooked back in the province that you can’t get anywhere else. After learning how to make lumpia, it made me realize how much closer I am to my Filipino culture and how important it is to carry on my traditions to future generations of my already huge family. Family is everything to me and cooking food together just brings us that much closer.

Unlike the Chinese version you can make lumpia with all different types of ingredients. But my personal favorite is my Lola's recipe. The simple seasonings that she adds to the ground beef is already so flavorful and the crunch of the crispy roll is music to my ears. I know that it is somewhat of a process to prepare this must have party platter, but it is defintely worth to make it yourself.

So now I'm going to share to all of you how to make lumpia using my Lola's recipe.

Ingredients that you will need

• Ground beef

• Carrots

• Green onions

• Ground black pepper

• Garlic salt

• Lumpia wrappers

• Egg/Water

• Vegetable oil

Materials that you will need

• Large pan

• 2 small bowls & large bowl

• Plate

• Cutting board

• Knife

• Strainer

• Large spoon & small spoon

• Aluminum tray (or any container to hold your finshed wrapped lumpias)

• Frying pan

• Tongs

Step-by-Step Instruction

1. Heat up your large pan on the stove to medium, cook the ground beef, and use a large spoon to turn the meat over

2. Cut the carrots and green onions into thin slices with a knife on a ​​cutting board

3. Once the ground beef is thoroughly cooked , strain the ground beef and have a small bowl underneath the strainer to catch the grease

4. Place the ground beef back in the large pan and put in the carrots and green onions

5. As you stir the ingredients together, sprinkle the ground black pepper and garlic salt onto the meat until the taste is to your satisfaction

6. When all the ingredients are fully stirred, pour the ground beef into a large bowl

7. Set up a table with a plate, the lumpia wrappers all separated, a bowl of either water or stirred egg (egg is preferable), and the large bowl of ground beef

8. Lay a lumpia wrapper on a plate facing you like a rhombus

9. Grab a small spoonful of ground beef, lay it halfway between the edge, and the center of the wrapper

10. Tightly roll the meat up until the halfway part of the lumpia wrap

11. Fold the left and right edges to the center, then dip two fingers into a bowl of water/stirred egg and place it all over the unfolded flap of the wrap

12. Roll up the rest of the meat all the way

13. Place the lumpia in the aluminum tray/container

14. Repeat steps 8-12 until you run out of meat and lumpia wrapper

15. Fry the lumpia in a heated pan of vegetable oil that is filled 1/4 of the pan (and please be careful, the oil tends to splatter!)

16. Cook until browned all over

17. Eat! Enjoy!

Suggestions: You can enjoy this with sweet & sour sauce, but my personal preferance is to eat it all on it's own because it's that good!

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