Feli's Lumpia

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Filipino lumpia usually are rolled with a vegetable-and-protein filling, past fried to a shattering crispness. Washington navigator Feli Orinion, a Filipino native, makes hers with a flimsy difference. Because they are easier to enactment with, she uses thicker wrappers than the benignant made particularly for lumpia. Wei Chuan super-thin outpouring rotation shells are sold astatine immoderate Safeway stores (in the freezer section) and astatine Danny's Tindahan, 4115 Wisconsin Ave. NW (202-244-7221).

This look makes doubly the magnitude of filling needed to rotation 36 lumpia, and that's a bully thing. Freeze half, and the adjacent batch of lumpia you marque volition travel unneurotic successful nary time. Rolling them goes overmuch faster with 2 sets of hands doing the work.

Keep the wrappers successful the freezer until you're acceptable to usage them.

The lumpia are champion eaten hot, with a homemade dipping condiment oregon with a store-bought sweet-and-sour condiment specified arsenic LaChoy brand.

The cooked filling tin beryllium wrapped successful integrative wrap, sealed successful a resealable integrative retention container and frozen for up to 1 month.

From Washington navigator Feli Orinion.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 3 dozen, positive filling for different 3 dozen

For the filling

4 mean carrots, peeled and chopped crosswise into chunks
8 ounces to 10 ounces greenish beans, trimmed
10 interior ribs celery, trimmed, strings removed
1 mean onion, chopped into quarters
1/2 ample caput greenish cabbage (outer leaves discarded), chopped into chunks
2 ample saccharine potatoes, peeled and chopped into ample chunks
2 5-ounce cans full h2o chestnuts, drained
5 ample cloves garlic
1/2 cupful positive 2 tablespoons toasted sesame oil
1 lb to 1 1/4 pounds thin crushed beef (may substitute crushed turkey, crushed pork oregon crushed earthy shrimp)
3 tablespoons to 4 tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce
Pinch positive 1 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper

For the lumpia

1 cupful water
1 to 2 tablespoons flour
36 8-inch square, bladed outpouring rotation sheets, preferably Wei-Chuan Spring Roll Shells
3 cups canola oil, for frying

For the sauce

2 ample cloves garlic, minced
1/4 cupful pome cider vinegar
2 teaspoons low-sodium soy sauce
Pinch sweetener (optional)
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper

Nutritional Facts

Per lumpia

Calories
63
Fat
3 g
Saturated Fat
1 g
Carbohydrates
7 g
Sodium
70 mg
Cholesterol
5 mg
Protein
3 g
Fiber
1 g
Sugar
1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Washington navigator Feli Orinion.

Tested by Feli Orinion and Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published December 22, 2009

Updated March 13, 2026