Thursday, May 5, 2011

Cooking 101: Homemade Fresh Spring Rolls / Popiah

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Article first published as Cooking 101: Homemade Fresh Spring Rolls, Popiah on Blogcritics.

Cooking 101 is back! This time, I'll be making popiah. Not tedious but it did take longer because I was taking photographs. Bought all the necessary ingredients from the market although it was kinda last minute. Here we go!

Ingredients:
  • Sweet sauce
  • 2 eggs(Its up to you really)
  • French beans
  • Chicken breast
  • Jicama (mengkuang in Malay)
  • Carrots
  • Lettuce
  • Tofu(beancurd)
  • Rice sheets
  • Garlic
  • Shallots

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Wash the jicama / bangkuang

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Peel both carrots and jicama

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My task of shredding the jicama and carrots

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Uh, couldn't find the container so which ever works

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Last few bits were too hard to hold and shred so I just chopped them up.

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Done with the carrots

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Slice the tofu

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Lightly pan fry them

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Wash up the vegetables

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Prepping the chicken breast

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Boiled the chicken breast with some salt

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Once cooled, I shredded them

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Chop up the garlic and shallots. Beat up the eggs in a small bowl

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Fry the shallots till golden brown

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This will add so much aroma

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Fry the eggs

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All of the vegetables ready to be cooked

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Toss everything in and stir, stir, stir and stir. Added some salt, pepper and sesame oil.

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Everything is set!

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Becareful when removing a sheet from the whole stack

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Lay it out nice and flat

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Add the sweet sauce

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Add some chili(I used Kampung Koh Chilli sauce here)

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A piece of lettuce


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Add the tofu(beancurd)

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Next will be the eggs

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Chicken breast for the meat

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Add the fried vegetables as the main filling

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Finally, add the fried shallots

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Wrap it up and you have your home made popiah!

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Slice them up

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Check that out

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Which one should I take?

It took some time to prepare and cook the popiah but me and my wife were pretty satisfied with the outcome. The size of the popiah was a little too big. We should have sliced the lettuce instead of using one whole piece. I also forgot to get some parsley for that fresh fragrant aroma. Also, we cooked too much jicama; 1 jicama was more than enough.

Nevertheless, it was delicious!

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Yosh! Itadakimasu!

3 comments:

  1. Looks great. The step-by-step pictures are really helpful, i think in malay the jicama is called sengkuang..hehe anyway thanks for sharing such a healthy recipe..i can try it now or then as i'm always running out of cooking ideas..

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  2. Hi there,

    Thanks for dropping by and glad you enjoyed it :)

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  3. Didnt know you are such a popiah fan... time well spent with wifey! btw.. lovely popiah.. drool... :)

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