LUMPIA

By ccavins

Ingredients

• 3 Tbl cooking oil
• 1 Tbl anatto (atsuete)
• 2 Tbl vegetable oil
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1/2 c onlons, chopped
• 1/4 k pork, cubed
• 1 1/2 c soup stock
• 200 gm shrimps, shelled, coarsely chopped
• 1 c sweet potato, cubed
• 1 c potatoes, cubed
• 3 c cabbage, shredded
• 2 c snapbeans, strips
• 1 c chickpeas, boiled
• 1/4 c celery, finely chopped
• 4 pcs soybean curd (tokwa)
• 2 Tbl fish sauce (paris]
• 1 tsp MSG (if desired)
• 20 pcs lettuce leaves
• 20 lurnpia wrappers.

Preparation

Step 1

Soak anatto in cooking oil. Set aside. Saute garlic in vegetable oil until light brown. Add onions, pork & shrimps. Pour in soup stock and cover. Cook over medium heat until pork is tender. Add sweet potato, potatoes and cook for 5 minutes. Then mix the rest of vegetables. Strain atsuete-oil to the vegetable mixture. Season with salt or fish sauce. Cook until all vegetables are done. Add MSG. Cool in a colander while allowing liquid to drain out. When cool, wrap in lumpia wrapper with leaf of lettuce showing at one end. Serve with Lumpia Sauce (see separate recipe).