How to Prepare Delicious Healthier Vietnamese Egg Rolls (Cha Gio)

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Place cooked eggrolls on a plate lined with paper towels to let excess oil drain. Drain on paper towels or paper bags. Shred or finely chop onion and squeeze excess moisture out by hand. Add ½ tsp salt to jícama, microwave until slightly soft and squeeze excess moisture out by hand.

Healthier Vietnamese Egg Rolls (Cha Gio) is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Healthier Vietnamese Egg Rolls (Cha Gio) is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have healthier vietnamese egg rolls (cha gio) using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Healthier Vietnamese Egg Rolls (Cha Gio):

1. Take 2 packages Egg roll wrapper ( use small ones)
2. Prepare 1 lb shrimp, deshell, devein, finely chop
3. Get 1 lb Ground pork
4. Get 1 Chicken breast, diced fine
5. Prepare 1 cup jicama, chopped fine
6. Take 2 cup bean sprouts
7. Prepare 3 red onions, chopped fine
8. Take 4 carrots, shredded
9. Get 2 green onion, chopped fine
10. Get 1 tbsp red boat fish sauce
11. Make ready 1 salt and pepper to taste
12. Prepare 1 egg beaten, set aside to seal egg rolls
13. Get 1 avocado, smashed
14. Get 1 canola oil for frying
15. Prepare 1 bunch bean thread cut into small pieces. this is optional if you want less carbs
16. Prepare 1 head leaf lettuce for garnish
17. Make ready 1 bunch mint for garnish
18. Make ready 1 bunch basil for garnish

You must be logged in to post a review. It's usually served in holidays and celebrations as an appetizer dish. It is also served in many other popular dishes such as rice noodles with egg rolls. Some people also have it for breakfast.

Instructions to make Healthier Vietnamese Egg Rolls (Cha Gio):

1. Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl. Leave out egg, wrapper, oil, lettuce, basil and mint. Mix well.
2. Using the wrapper, place it in a diamond shape facing towards you. Place a tablespoon of the mixture onto the bottom corner.
3. Tightly roll the wrapper until it's half way. Fold in right and left corners. The tighter the roll, the less oily it will be.
4. Continue rolling until about 1/4 of the way there, brush corner with egg and seal
5. Freeze egg rolls over night as they come out crispier when fried after freezing
6. Heat up a pot of oil (canola) and place frozen egg rolls in hot oil to deep fry making a batch of 5-8 at a time. Fry for 10 min until golden brown and floating up to the surface.
7. Place cooked eggrolls on a plate lined with paper towels to let excess oil drain.
8. Serve immediately with dipping sauce. I prefer the traditional fish/vinegar sauce combo (nuc mam). I use lettuce, mint, basil to wrap each egg roll and dip it in the sauce.

It is also served in many other popular dishes such as rice noodles with egg rolls. Some people also have it for breakfast. The result is delicious little bites great for party appetizers, casual snacking, or great added to bowls of bún thịt nướng too! Authentic Vietnamese egg rolls have ingredients wrapped in a light, airy crispy shell made of pork, bean thread cellophane, jicama, shredded carrot, and woodear mushrooms (and a few other ingredients I'll share with you below). I've made these egg rolls with this recipe for the better part of the last five decades.

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