Still making turon with strips of langka (jackfruit)? Too boring... try strips of cheese. Turon will never be the same …
Spring Rolls
Asian spring rolls are served fried or fresh, the wrappers can be a simple rolled dough, steamed and dried rice paper or soft and crepe-like. The variety of filling is endless from meat to seafood to vegetables with aromatics and herbs. Oh, and there are sweet spring rolls too!
How To Make Crepe-like Spring Roll Wrappers
What distinguishes good lumpiang ubod (heart of palm spring rolls) from great lumpiang ubod? The quality of the ubod, of …
Pork and Mushrooms Spring Rolls
Just when I thought I knew all everything about cooking spring rolls, I learned something new again. If you mix the filling …
Fried Chicken Spring Rolls
The ground chicken and cabbage filling was meant to go into dumplings with hand-rolled wrappers but Alex cut her finger and …
Tuna lumpia (spring rolls)
In April, 2003, I posted a tuna lumpia (spring rolls) recipe using cooked fresh tuna. That recipe was updated (with better …
Chicken, Cheese and Roasted Pepper Sticks
Something like fried spring rolls but with un-Asian filling, these chicken, cheese and roasted pepper sticks are dipped in …
Slow-cooker pulled pork, mashed potatoes and cheese spring rolls
Pork ribs were marinated in barbecue sauce and slow-cooked for eight hours. After cooling, the meat was shredded and combined …
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Fried spring rolls with mushrooms, salted eggs, tomatoes and herbs
Serving the traditional salted egg and tomato salad as a spring roll was an idea I learned from my friend, Sol, and her …
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Tikoy (nian gao) and cheese turon (fried spring rolls)
Here's a great way to use all that tikoy from the Chinese New Year. Yes, as turon filling! The combination of tikoy and …
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Cheese and nori spring rolls
Sam had this idea of combining cheese and nori for fried spring rolls filling. I couldn't quite visualize it so the idea …
Tinapa (smoked fish), salted eggs and tomato spring rolls
One of the law school girl friend parties I went to over the Christmas holidays was hosted by my friend, Sol. We live in the …
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Fried Mushrooms and Vegetables Spring Rolls
An American reader once commented that, in the States, spring rolls are fresh and, when fried, they are called egg rolls. The …
Rice-stuffed fried spring rolls with eggplant caviar dip
Sam likes to have a crisp element in her vegetarian food. When I cook something that doesn't have anything crispy in it, …
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Baked Apple Spring rolls
If you love apple pie but don't know the first thing about making a pie, here's a delicious way to get your baked apple fix. …