Fresh Lumpia (Filipino Style)




Nutritious fresh lumpia.


Ingredients:
  • 1 tablespoon atsuwete
  • 2 tablespoons fat
  • 3 tablespoons cooking oil
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1/2 cups onion, chopped
  • 1/4 kg pork or chicken, par-boiled and shredded
  • 1/4 cup shrimps, blanched, shelled and sliced
  • 4 pcs tokwa, cut into strips
  • 1 1/2 water or soup stock
  • 5 medium sized potatoes, cut into strips
  • 1/2 cup snap beans, cut into strips
  • 1 medium sized carrot, cut into strips
  • 4 tablespoons kintsay, chopped
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 tablespoons, patis
  • 20 pcs lettuce leaves
  • 20 pcs lumpia wrapper
Procedure:
  1. Heat atsuwete seeds in hot fat to extract color. Remove the seeds and set aside.
  2. Saute garlic in cooking oil until light brown.
  3. Add onion, pork or chicken, shrimps, and tokwa.
  4. Pour in water or soup stock. Cover.
  5. Cook until pork or chicken is tender. Add potatoes and carrots and cook fir 5 minutes and add atsuwete extract.
  6. Add the rest of the vegetables.
  7. Season with salt and patis.
  8. Cook until all vegetables are done.
  9. Drain in a colander and allow to cool.
  10. When cool, place lumpia mixture in a wrapper with a leaf of lettuce showing at one end.
  11. Serve with lumpia sauce.