Spring Rolls

Spring rolls are our all time favorite snack. These are light, crispy and healthy as they are stuffed with veggies. These are served almost in all East Asian meals. Filling may be either vegetable or meat. Here I am going to prepare them using vegetable filling.
I have already posted how to prepare Whole Wheat Spring Roll/ Samosa Sheets at home. You can use all purpose flour as well and follow the same procedure.
I made use of veggies like carrot, cabbage, spring onions, red bell peppers, onions, mush rooms and sweet corn. You can use any kind of crunchy vegetables for the filling.

Ingredients

•  Spring rolls sheets
• Oil - 2 tsp
• Onion - 1 big, thinly sliced
• Ginger - 2 tsp, finely chopped
• Garlic - 2 tsp, finely chopped
• Carrot - 1, cut length wise, thinly
• Capsicum - 1/2, cut length wise, thinly
• Mushroom -5 nos, cut in to thin slices
• Cabbage - 1/2 cup, chopped length wise
• Spring onion - few
• Sweet corn -  1/4 cup, boiled
• Soya sauce - 2 tsp
• Pepper powder - 2 tsp
• Vinegar - 1 tsp
• Corn flour - 1 tblspn
• All purpose flour/ wheat flour - 1 tblspn
• Salt - to taste
• Oil - for deep frying

Method

 Preparation:

1. Keep all the vegetables ready
2. Keep the spring roll sheets ready
3. In a small bowl, mix all purpose flour/ wheat flour along with some water and make it like a batter (like dosa batter)

How to proceed:

• In a pan, heat some oil and add chopped ginger and garlic. Fry for a minute.
• Add all the vegetables together and fry until it is slightly cooked. Add corn starch. Cornstarch will help to absorb all the moisture released out of vegetables while cooking. Always keep the heat in high. It will take 3 to 4 minutes to cook. Keep stirring to avoid burning.
• Add salt, pepper powder, vinegar and soya sauce. Mix well and switch off the flame. Do not over cook the veggies. Crunchiness should still be maintained. Your stuffing is now ready. Keep them aside.

• Now, we will fill the spring roll sheets with these veggies.
• Take a spoon of filling and place them in one corner of the spring roll sheet. Do not over fill, as you will face difficulty while rolling them

 

• Start rolling from the same side, very tightly,from where u kept the filling. Roll it half the way. Apply flour mixture on both the sides.

•  Fold both the sides and apply the flour mixture on remaining portion of the sheet.(refer pic)

• Now, fold downwards

• Repeat the same for rest of the sheets and keep them ready for frying

• Heat oil in a pan/ vessel and deep fry the spring rolls until golden brown.

• All done

  

Alternatively, you can bake them instead of frying. But for better results, frying is recommended. 
For baking it in the oven, fill your sheets, roll them and brush some oil on all the sides. Bake them in the pre-heated oven @150 deg for 20 minutes or until they become golden brown in colour.





I fried 1 batch and baked 1 batch. Look at the difference. Fried (left side) and baked (Right side)