Cooking 101: Homemade Fresh Spring Rolls / Popiah

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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

Wash the jicama / bangkuang

Peel both carrots and jicama

My task of shredding the jicama and carrots

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

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

Done with the carrots

Slice the tofu

Lightly pan fry them

Wash up the vegetables

Prepping the chicken breast

Boiled the chicken breast with some salt

Once cooled, I shredded them

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

Fry the shallots till golden brown

This will add so much aroma

Fry the eggs

All of the vegetables ready to be cooked

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

Everything is set!

Becareful when removing a sheet from the whole stack

Lay it out nice and flat

Add the sweet sauce

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

A piece of lettuce

Add the tofu(beancurd)

Next will be the eggs

Chicken breast for the meat

Add the fried vegetables as the main filling

Finally, add the fried shallots

Wrap it up and you have your home made popiah!

Slice them up

Check that out

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!

Yosh! Itadakimasu!