My mother-in-law is Vietnamese and makes the best egg rolls! The problem with her recipes is that she has no recipe. She just does them. So I have learned how to do them a lot like hers, but I don’t have an exact recipe either! But I will do my best to tell you how we make them.
This is one of the food items my mother requested for her Mother’s Day meal, so I wrapped them the night before and put plastic wrap between the egg rolls so that they did not stick together. The next day, we fried them. You also can freeze them before you fry them.
How to wrap an egg roll
From left or right:
- I get the rice stick noodles or rice vermicilli (very thin rice noodles) at the stores by my house. They are very inexpensive, unlike Amazon.
- We either have homemade dipping sauce or use this sweet chili sauce.
- I use the fish sauce and the chili garlic sauce when I make my own dipping sauce.
Egg rolls with homemade dipping sauce
Here is a video of my daughter rolling an egg roll:
Ingredients
- Ground pork
- cabbage
- carrots
- rice noodles
- **My mother-in-law also puts in very small diced up dried mushrooms of some kind. She gets them from a Vietnamese store, so I have never put any in my egg rolls.
- egg roll wrappers
- egg
- oil (vegetable or canola) for frying the egg rolls
Instructions
- Cook up ground pork (I do about one pound) It will make over 40 egg rolls (depending on how big you make them and how much vegetables/noodles you put in the mixture.)
- Shred carrots and cabbage (I do it in my food processor.)
- "Cook" rice noodles (just put in hot water for a minute or two and then drain when soft.) I use less than 8 ounces for 1 pound of meat. Maybe 4 ounces? I then cut the noodles with my kitchen shears so that they are not so long.
- Combine all the above ingredients and mix well.
- You can really use any quantity of those ingredients that you want to use.
- Make an egg wash mixture out of an egg and 1 tablespoon of water. (Beat egg and water)
- Unpeel one egg roll wrapper.
- Put one corner of the wrapper facing you.
- Place a couple tablespoons of vegetable/meat down towards the bottom corner that is facing you.
- Put that corner up over the food mixture; bring over the corners, and keep rolling it as tightly as you can.
- Dip the last corner in the egg wash and seal the egg roll.
- Fry the egg rolls until the wrappers are a light golden brown.
Notes
My mother-in-law also makes her own dipping sauce which has no measurements! You make it out of it about: (I don't measure--I tried to do it for this post though) 1 tablespoon of vinegar 3 tbsp fish sauce 1c water 1/2 tbsp sugar 1 tsp chili garlic sauce I just have my husband taste it and tell me if it is right!
You are a woman after my own heart. I love homemade egg rolls
Shows we have good taste! Maybe it’s part of the reason why I’m not losing any weight either!
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Will try making these. We all love egg rolls. Thanks for the video showing how to roll them.
You’re welcome! If Kaylin and Karis can do it, your grandkids can do it too! It goes a lot faster when a few people help roll them. And I freeze some before I fry them, so later I don’t have to do all that work. The trickiest part at the beginning is rolling them tight enough. But after you have that down, they’re a breeze!
Yummy!! I love these and wish I could get my mom to make them again. hehehe Your video was great.
Thanks! I have so much to learn about making videos. I’ll have to get Kim from KidPep to teach me!
Yum – homemade egg rolls. Great video!
You are the video guru! I need to learn how to edit them and add text. I don’t even know if I need a separate program to do it! I need to learn,but it just seems time consuming, and time is one thing I am short on!
Yum! Thanks so much for the egg roll recipe. 🙂 Can’t wait to give it a try!
We think they are the best! But they do take time to make!
Oh Yum!!! Those egg rolls sound delish! I just might have to try my hand at making them!
It took me a couple of times to practice rolling them tight enough, but that is probably the trickiest part of making them!
I love egg roll but never made my own. pinned these.
I never had until I met my mother in law. Now I can’t stand spending money for two egg rolls–but they do take time to make, so I don’t do it a lot.
No-recipe recipes are often the best ones 🙂 These look so good indeed!
We definitely love them! Thanks for coming by!
Food posts are the worst to read–I always want to eat after reading them!
Thanks! We obviously love egg rolls too!
Yum, egg rolls are amazing, and so much better when you can control the ingredients! Thank you for linking up to Farmer’s Market Friday!
Sounds so delicious!
Totally love egg rolls. My hubby’s family is Filipino and they always laugh at me because I make mines giant sized…lol. Thanks for sharing on Merry Mondays.
this looks delish!!! pinning for later 🙂 xo, jess
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Those egg rolls look delicious 🙂 Thanks for sharing at #smallvictoriessunday 🙂
I love egg rolls and these look delicious. Where do you get the egg roll wrap?