Nonya poh piah - chinese spring rolls
1 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Turnips (cut into thin slices) (up to 6) | |
| 4 | Carrots (cut into thin slices) (up to 5) | |
| 1 | can | Bamboo shoots (also sliced thinly) |
| Bowlful of beansprouts (roots removed) | ||
| 1 | tablespoon | Minced garlic |
| 1 | tablespoon | Minced ginger |
| 2 | tablespoons | Mashed preserved soya beans (tau cheo) |
| Dark soya sauce | ||
| Light soya sauce | ||
| Oyster sauce | ||
| Pepper | ||
| Lettuce | ||
| Spring roll pastry (pohpiah skins - soft spring roll skins) | ||
| Minced garlic | ||
| Chillie sauce | ||
| THICK sweet soya sauce - or use soya sauce mixed with light corn syrup | ||
| Ground peanuts | ||
| Cooked cocktail prawns/shrimps | ||
| Omelette (sliced to strips) | ||
| Cucumber (sliced to strips) | ||
| Fried sliced tow kua (hard crumbled tofu) | ||
| Fried/toasted shallots | ||
| Coriander leaves/cilantro | ||
Directions
TURNIP FILLING
SEASONING
ROLLS
GARNISHINGS
Method for frying main ingredients: 1. Heat 2 T oil then add minced garlic, ginger and mashed preserved soya beans (tau cheo).
2. When fragrant and brown, add turnips, carrots and bamboo shoots 3. When ingredients are semi-soft and wet with the gravy, add beansprouts and seasoning to your taste.
4. Fry till gravy has dried and ingredients are all soft.
Method for making rolls:
1. Microwave packet of spring roll pastry or pohpiah skins (Must read instructions on packet. Overheating makes pastry too crispy to roll!) 2. On 1 or 2 sheet(s) (depending on strength off the pastry to hold the filling) of pastry, place lettuce and spread thick soya sauce, chillie and garlic over lettuce (lettuce helps to keep pastry dry) 3. Place enough main ingredients on lettuce (too much would make this into "spring parcel" rather than spring roll) 4. Add garnishings
5. Use imagination and some dexterity to fold in edges of pastry and roll it.
Have fun rolling your pohpiah and watching others rolling their poh-piahs! You can eat it as a roll or as slices.
Recipe by Angeline Koh Posted to Digest eat-lf.v097.n199 by "Karen Lim" <bem40147@...> on Aug 8, 1997