Sing of His Mercies: Favorite Recipe Friday

Friday, January 9, 2009

Favorite Recipe Friday

Ask anyone in my family what my favorite food is and they'll be quick to answer,"Dillon's Chinese!" And my wonderful husband indulges me almost every weekend. Where else can you feed a family of six for $7.96?

But as I am prone to do, I'll research on the computer for copy cat recipes and try and make it myself. Last night was time to try homemade egg rolls.

The recipe came from a friend on Taste Of Home's recipe forum. Her recipe makes about 60 egg rolls. I roughly made a third of it and got 20 delicious homemade egg rolls! Here is the full recipe.

Egg Rolls- This makes 60 egg rolls

2 lbs ground pork
** 8 oz glass noodles (also called Rice Sticks;I found them in the oriental aisle at the grocery store)
3 or 4 carrots-peeled
3 or 4 celery stalks-washed
1 large onion
1/2-3/4 t coarse ground pepper
1 t kosher salt
1 t sugar
3 T soy sauce
3 eggs
1-2 egg white(S)
60 egg roll wrappers (I found these in the produce section)
oil for frying

**Put glass noodles in hot water and let sit for about 15 minutes. Drain and cut with kitchen shears.

Put onion in food processor and grind. Cook onion in 1-2 T peanut oil until onion is clear. Put in large bowl to cool. Grind celery and carrots in food processor. Put in large bowl with onion.

Once the onion is cooked,use the same pan for the meat. Cook until no longer pink. Drain meat.

Add pepper,salt,sugar,soy sauce and eggs to the large bowl. Stir in meat.

On work surface,take one wrapper and use 1/8 cup of the mixture. Place in the middle on the end closest to you. Leave about an inch space of the wrapper so it doesn't spill out. Before folding,use a pastry brush and brush egg white on sides and top end of wrapper. Fold in 3's. Do this by bringing the bottom corner up over the filling, then fold over each side, then roll closed. The egg white acts as glue to hold the wrapper closed.