Fresh Lumpia

These delicious spring rolls are a traditional Filipino dish.

• Prep: 30 min
• Cook: 20 min
• Total: 50 min
• Servings: 8
• Cuisine: Filipino
• Difficulty: Medium

Dietary

• Dairy-Free
• Egg-Free
• Low-Sodium
• Low-Fat
• Low-Cholesterol
• Low-Sugar
• Low-Saturated-Fat
• Low-Calorie
• Low-Carb

Tags

• fresh
• healthy
• sauté
• savory

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 0.5 cup ground chicken breast
• 0.5 cup shrimp (peeled and deveined)
• 5 clove garlic (chopped and minced)
• 0.5 cup cabbage (julienned)
• 0.5 cup green beans (julienned)
• 0.5 cup carrots (julienned)
• 0.25 cup celery (julienned)
• 0.25 cup jicama (julienned)
• 0.5 cup low-sodium chicken broth
• 0.25 teaspoon salt
• 0.25 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 cup broth from preparing the filling
• 1 tablespoon lite soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon cornstarch
• 2 tablespoon cold water (cold)
• 8 piece Vietnamese spring-roll wrappers
• 8 piece red leaf lettuce
• 0.33 cup dry roasted peanuts (chopped)

Instructions

1. Heat oil in a sauté pan, and sauté the ground meat with the shrimp and garlic.
2. Add the vegetables (cabbage, green beans, carrots, celery, and jicama), and sauté until slightly crisp.
3. Add the chicken broth, and continue until vegetables are cooked.
4. Season with salt and black pepper.
5. Remove from heat and use a colander to strain; save the broth for use in preparing the lumpia sauce (steps below).
6. Let meat and vegetable mixture cool to room temperature.
7. Mix 1 cup of the broth strained from the cooked filling, soy sauce, brown sugar, and garlic together in a saucepan, and bring to a boil.
8. In a small bowl, mix the cornstarch in 2 tablespoons of cold water.
9. Slowly add the cornstarch mixture to the broth in the saucepan.
10. Stir over medium heat until sauce thickens.
11. Soak one spring roll wrapper in warm water until soft and transparent.
12. Dry immediately with a paper towel.
13. Place the wrapper on a plate, and lay a piece of lettuce on the wrapper.
14. Put 2 tablespoons of the meat and vegetable mixture on the wrapper.
15. Fold bottom of wrapper over filling; wrap one side over filling and roll to the other side (to seal in the filling).
16. Repeat with remaining wrappers and filling.
17. Serve with lumpia sauce on top.
18. Sprinkle with chopped peanuts.

Notes

Jicama looks similar to a turnip or a large radish. Water chestnut can be used as an alternative.

Nutrition (per serving)

• Calories: 160
• Protein: 10 g
• Carbohydrates: 21 g
• Fat: 4 g
• Fiber: 2 g
• Sodium: 150 mg
• Saturated Fat: 1 g
• Sugar: 4 g
• Cholesterol: 55 mg