Potato Spring Rolls
Spring Roll is an Asian appetizer/snack. It is a snack in which vegetables or meat are rolled inside a thin spring roll sheet made of corn or wheat and deep fried. This particular recipe is about having mashes boiled potatoes mixed with spices as a filling, for the spring roll.
Ingredients:
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1. Spring Roll base/sheets ( available at Asian/Indian stores). These sheets are generally stored frozen. Before preparing the spring rolls, thaw the sheets outside the freezer. Keeping it in normal room temperature for 30 minutes will make it easier to remove the sheets without getting torn or without getting stuck to each other
2. Potatoes - 2, cut into cubes
3. Minced Garlic - 1/2 tea spoon
4. Green chillies - 8 to 10
5. Ginger - 1/2 inch piece
6. Red onion - 1/2 - cut into small pieces
6. Cilantro - a handful
7. Salt - 1/2 tea spoon(Adjust as per your taste)
4. Green chillies - 8 to 10
5. Ginger - 1/2 inch piece
6. Red onion - 1/2 - cut into small pieces
6. Cilantro - a handful
7. Salt - 1/2 tea spoon(Adjust as per your taste)
8. Cooking oil - For deep frying the spring rolls
9. Mustard seeds - 1/2 tea spoon
9. Mustard seeds - 1/2 tea spoon
Procedure:
1. Wash the potatoes, cut into cubes, boil them with 1/2 tea spoon of water. Peel the skin, remove any excess water and keep the boiled potatoes aside in a bowl.
2. Mash the potatoes coarsely till there are no large lumps.
2. Mash the potatoes coarsely till there are no large lumps.
3. Grind the green chillies, ginger, garlic, cilantro with 1/4 cup of water in a mixer-grinder/blender and add this to the mashed potatoes. Add 1/2 tea spoon of salt and mix them well with the mashed potatoes.
4. Heat 1 tea spoon of oil in the pan. When oil is hot, add 1/2 tea spoon of mustard seeds and allow them to splutter.
5. To this , add the red onion and saute till it turns light brown.
6. Now add the potato mix to this and keep mixing till the potato mix is cooked well and the raw smell goes off. Once cooked well, remove the potato mix from the pan and keep aside.
5. To this , add the red onion and saute till it turns light brown.
6. Now add the potato mix to this and keep mixing till the potato mix is cooked well and the raw smell goes off. Once cooked well, remove the potato mix from the pan and keep aside.
7. Take 1 tea spoon of all purpose flour and 1 tea spoon of corn flour. Mix them with 2 tea spoons of water to form a thick paste.
7. Place 1 tea spoon of the potato filling near one of the edges of the spring roll sheet.
8.Fold the edge inside covering the potato filling and start rolling the sheet from one edge diagonally/Roll it tight inwards to avoid spilling of the filled potato mix.
9. When it is half-rolled, apply the flour paste on the edges and seal the edges of the spring rolls.
10. Heat oil in pan. Deep fry the spring rolls till they turn golden brown.
11. Serve hot and crispy spring rolls. This would taste great with hot and sweet tomato sauce, mint chutney etc.,
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