Filipino Delicacies from Vegan Chef Reina, Part 2 of 2 – Traditional Vegetable Lumpia

Last Sunday, vegan Chef Reina Montenegro showed us how to cook the delicious Filipino dish Kare-Kare. Today she will share with us another traditional recipe, vegan lumpia, a spring roll that is very popular in the Philippines. “And today we’re going to show you how to make Vegetable Lumpia. So, my ingredients are flour, mushroom powder, black pepper, some water, salt, soy sauce, oil, mixed vegetables, cabbage, and some wrappers. We’re going to add some oil in the pan, about two tablespoons. Then we add our mixed vegetables. From here we can add our cabbage, and don’t worry about the cabbage because it’s going to wilt down. While this is cooking, we’re going to add soy sauce. We’re going to add some mushroom powder, some pepper. What we’re trying to do is wilt the vegetables and take all the liquid from it. So when we start rolling these, they won’t be soggy. This is pretty much done and turn off the heat. We’ll put it into our bowl to cool down. So the important thing is we need to cool this down before wrapping, so it doesn’t go through the wrapper. The next step is to roll our Lumpias. Do you remember the mixture we did earlier when we stir-fried the vegetables? We’ll take a tablespoon of that. We’ll put it in the center of our wrapper and the trick is we’re going to roll this really tight. We’re going to start frying right now. Just pan-frying it, so, a little bit of oil on medium-high heat right here. And what we’re really doing here is we’re just heating up or cooking the shell because the insides are already cooked. So, once all sides are done like I can see that most of these are done now, we’re going to take them out and put it in on our paper towel. I would wait to eat this until it’s cooled down because you don’t want to burn yourself. So to garnish this dish, we’re going to use some arugula and put it on a plate. You can also use whatever vegetable you like that looks prettier. And for the sauce, we’re using soy sauce and sambal. It’s a chili paste. Add it in with your soy sauce and then put it on the side here. And then we plate it. You can plate it however you like, but make it look pretty and appetizing. And you can enjoy your Vegetable Lumpia.”