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Egg Rolls

I usually try to cook a nice meal on Sundays, especially when my son’s have their girlfriends over. Yesterday, they requested Chinese food.  I have made Stir-Fry and Oriental Noodles, lots of times. But, egg rolls, well, that was a new one. While thinking about having to buy either frozen ($2.50 for 4 at Aldi’s) or from Take-Out ($1 each), I knew that was way too much money to spend. So, I had my son look for a recipe online, and I headed to Walmart and Aldi’s for the ingredients.

They were surprisingly very easy to make,(my son and his girlfriend actually made most of them) and only cost about $6.00 for 20 egg rolls.

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Ingredients

  • 1 lb. Ground Pork
  • 1 t. Ground Ginger  (I used fresh)
  • 1 t. Garlic Powder  (I used fresh, again)
  • 1 quart Oil
  • 2 T. Flour
  • 2 T. Water
  • 2 c. Cabbage  (I bought a bag of broccoli, carrots & cabbage already cut at Walmart for $1.30, it worked great)
  • 2 oz. Carrots
  • Egg Roll Wrappers (these are in the produce section, they come 20 in a pkg)

Directions

Fry the pork and add the ginger and garlic. Mix with vegetables, set aside.

I took step by step photos, and decided to combine them to make the post a little shorter.

egg rolls collage

Starting at the top left –

1. Lay egg roll wrapper out with a corner facing you, place 1/4-1/3 c. mixture on the wrapper

2. Fold over corner

3. Fold in side corners

4. Fold over again

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5.  Combine flour and water to make paste. Spoon a little paste on edge of wrapper.

6. Fold over last time and seal

7. We placed ours on a cookie sheet until frying

8. Fry in hot oil

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We were able to fry 4 at a time, so we placed them in a foil lined 13×9 pan to stay warm until we were done.

Cooks Note:  Next time we make these, I will add a little more seasoning. Also, we put them on paper towel to soak up some of the oil, they were still a little greasy, next time I will add more paper towel and pat them down a bit.

19 Comments

  1. I’ve never made eggrolls (potstickers, ys). These look so yummy. And atleast you know for sure what’s in the 😉

  2. Oh you know I love anything asian, these will go great with my homemade friend wontons! 🙂

  3. We usually do a HUGE batch and then freeze (layered between parchment papers). Then when we want eggrolls, we can take out what we want and fry them frozen 🙂

    Your eggrolls look delicious 🙂

    Blessings!
    Gail
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  4. these look fantastic! I’ve never made egg rolls – but you make them look easy to make 🙂
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  5. Angie @ Many Little Blessings says:

    Yum — those look absolutely delicious! I love egg rolls!
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  6. You just may have gotten me over my fear of making eggrolls. Thank you for a clear way to do this.
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  7. Wow, those look so good! Thanks for sharing the recipe and directions with us!

  8. The egg rolls look delicious! We love Chinese food, but I am some what scared of trying to cook it for myself. Thanks for sharing how easy it is.
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  9. I have a friend who makes these–she uses pork sausage, the kind that comes in a tube, it has the extra seasoning you may like. For the cabbage, she uses the cole slaw mixture in a bag, it already has the carrots, and mix of red and green cabbage. She adds it to the browned meat and cooks it down just slightly before filling the wrappers. Last time I was home I was telling her it was time for a batch of these! I may have to get the stuff and make some myself now!

    1. @Charlene @ A Virtuous Woman, The sausage is a great idea. I used a bag of already cut up cabbage, carrots and broccoli, but didn’t think about cooking it down some. Thanks for the tips!
      And for visiting!
      ~Liz

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