How to Cook Appetizing Fresh Spring Roll (Filipino Lumpiang Sariwa)

Fresh Spring Roll (Filipino Lumpiang Sariwa). Lumpiang Sariwa is another variety of Filipino spring rolls. It literally translates to Fresh Spring Rolls. The filling is composed of various vegetables, some shrimps, and meat.

These Lumpiang Sariwa or Fresh Rolls are made of meat and vegetables wrapped in a homemade wrapper, drizzled with sweet and garlicky sauce, and topped with chopped peanuts. Some calls it Lumpiang Ubod, also known as heart of palm spring rolls but only if it was made from the ubod itself. Ubod or heart of palm spring is very hard to find nowadays. You can have Fresh Spring Roll (Filipino Lumpiang Sariwa) using 26 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Fresh Spring Roll (Filipino Lumpiang Sariwa)

1. Prepare of Filling.
2. Prepare of sweet potato, cubed.
3. Prepare of fish sauce.
4. Prepare of cabbage, shredded.
5. Prepare of carrots, julienned.
6. Prepare of water.
7. Prepare of peanut, crushed.
8. Prepare of lettuce leaves.
9. It's of ground pork.
10. Prepare of string beans, chopped.
11. Prepare of garlic, minced.
12. It's of pork cube.
13. It's of Wrapper.
14. Prepare of all-purpose flour.
15. It's of raw eggs.
16. It's of cooking oil.
17. Prepare of salt.
18. It's of milk.
19. You need of Sauce.
20. Prepare of soy sauce.
21. It's of brown sugar.
22. Prepare of water.
23. It's of garlic, minced.
24. Prepare of cornstarch, diluted in 4 tbsp water.
25. It's of salt to taste.
26. You need of peanut butter ( optional ).

In a heated pan, pour-in the cooking oil then sauté the garlic and onions Add the pork and cook until color turns light brown. Put-in the pork cube and add ½ cup water then simmer until pork is tender. Lumpiang sariwa is a break from all the carb-laden glutinous food and deep fried meat that Filipinos are very fond of. It is called 'sariwa' or fresh because you will not fry the whole spring rolls.

Fresh Spring Roll (Filipino Lumpiang Sariwa) step by step

1. In a heated pan, pour-in the cooking oil then sauté the garlic and onions.
2. Add the pork and cook until color turns light brown. Put-in the pork cube and add ½ cup water then simmer until pork is tender..
3. Add sweet potatoes and cook for 5 minutes or until potatoes are soft..
4. Put-in carrots, and string beans then mix with the other ingredients. Add the cabbage and let cook for 5 minutes. Add the fish sauce and mix. Set aside.
5. Make the wrapper. In a mixing bowl, crack the eggs and beat. Add the milk while beating. Put in the salt and all-purpose flour then mix thoroughly. Add the vegetable oil and mix well. Turn the stove on to medium heat and put the non-stick pan in place. Spray the pan with oil or grease with butter. Pour-in the wrapper mixture (about half a cup) and tilt the pan to distribute the liquid evenly. Cook until the top part of the mixture is dry (about 2 minutes). Using a spatula, remove the cooked mixture and place in a flat plate. Set aside.
6. Make the sauce. In a saucepan, pour the water and bring to a boil. Add the brown sugar. Put some salt and soy sauce then mix. Dilute the cornstarch in water and pour in the saucepan. Cook until the sauce becomes thick. Set aside..
7. Wrap the filling. Place the wrapper in a plate then place a lettuce leaf in the middle top part of the wrapper. Spoon the filling and place in the middle of the wrapper (over the lettuce leaf). Close the wrapper by folding the lower part first then roll the sides until the filling is sealed. Pour the sauce over the Lumpiang Sariwa and garnish with crushed peanuts and minced garlic. Serve. Share and Enjoy!.

Its peanut sauce and lumpia wrappers are the elements which will make it special. As its name suggests, lumpiang sariwa is a type of Filipino spring roll that is eaten fresh or unfried as a midday snack or light meal. It's made of stir-fried vegetables wrapped in a crepe wrapper or thin pastry skin and smothered in a sweet and savory peanut sauce, with additional garnishings of ground peanuts and minced garlic. Cut waxed paper into squares slightly bigger than lumpia rolls and wrap each roll individually in waxed paper to keep from drying. Let the individuals unwrap rolls themselves just before eating them.