Homemade Egg Rolls

Think you can make delicious restaurant-quality egg rolls at home? Think again! This easy to recreate homemade egg roll recipe will have you frying up a batch in no time!

We’re HUGE lovers of Chinese cuisine and flavors here in my home.  My aim was to make egg rolls like our favorite Chinese take-out restaurant. 

PORK FILLED EGG ROLLS      {PRINT THIS RECIPE}

1/2 lb ground pork
3 cloves garlic, grated
salt and pepper
1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger, divided
1 medium carrot, grated
1 tablespoon red onion, grated
2 cups prepared coleslaw mix (cabbage, red and green)
2-3 tablespoons bean sprouts, drained
2-3 tablespoons water chestnuts, chopped
2-3 scallions, sliced
1 teaspoon soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon rice vinegar
1 teaspoon oyster sauce
Egg Roll Wrappers (found in the produce section of your grocery store)
Peanut Oil for frying

-In a large skillet, over medium-high heat, brown the pork until no longer pink.
-Add the garlic, ginger, salt, and pepper and reduce the heat to medium.
-Add the carrot, red onion, slaw mix, bean sprouts, and water chestnuts.
-Cook the mixture until it’s just wilted. Approximately 5 minutes.
-Add the scallions, soy sauce, rice vinegar, and oyster sauce.
-Continue to cook just another minute or two and remove from the heat.
-Allow to cool so the mixture is easy to work with.
-Using one egg roll wrapper at a time, fill with the pork/cabbage mixture, roll up and seal the ends with water. 

-Continue wrapping and rolling until all the meat mixture is used up.
-In a large, deep-sided skillet, heat several inches of the peanut oil for frying.
**Note – You know your peanut oil is ready when you dip the handle of a wooden spoon in the oil and millions of tiny bubbles form off the spoon handle.**
-Carefully fry a few egg rolls at a time until golden brown, turning to brown all sides.
-Allow your egg rolls to cool slightly and serve.

While my egg rolls were good, they were still lacking ‘something’ that our favorite Chinese take-out egg rolls have.

Maybe it’s the msg? Who knows? 

Still, for a first-time egg roll making experience, I was pretty pleased with how they turned out!

Until we eat again,