Chennai Mammam: Vegetable Spring Roll

Vegetable Spring Roll

Vegetable Spring Roll is an Asian appetizer/snack. It is a snack in which vegetables are rolled inside a thin spring roll sheet made of corn or wheat and deep fried.

Ingredients:

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. Mixed vegetables cut length-wise(julienne cut) or into small pieces ( carrots, cabbage, red onion, cilantro etc. you can also add bell peppers to get a more crunchy effect. )

3. Minced Garlic - 1/2 tea spoon

4. Salt - 1/2 tea spoon(Adjust as per your taste)

5. Coarsely ground black pepper powder- 1/4 tea spoon

6. Tomato Ketchup - about 2 tea spoons

7. Cooking oil - For deep frying the spring rolls

Procedure:

1. Heat a tea spoon of oil in a pan.

2. When the oil is hot, saute the garlic and red onions well till they turn light brown in color.

3. Now add all the other vegetables and saute them well.Also for those who want their spring rolls to be more spicy, you can add 2 to 3 minced green chillies or sprinkle 1/2 tea spoon of red pepper flakes while sauteing the vegetables

4. Sprinkle the salt and pepper powder when the vegetables are about half-cooked.

5. Finally add the tomato ketchup and mix well and keep this vegetable mixture in a plate aside.

6. 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 vegetable filling near one of the edges of the spring roll sheet.

8.Fold the edge inside covering the vegetables and start rolling the sheet from one edge diagonally/Roll it tight inwards to avoid spilling of the filled vegetables.