Street Food: Shrimp Rolls

The loud crunches of your first bite into a deep fried shrimp roll cant be beat. Who loves it as much as we do? 🙋🏻‍♀️

Makes 10 Shrimp Rolls
Cook time: 10 minutes
Prep time: 15 minutes

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup oil (yes we are deep frying baby!!)
• 10 shrimps🦐, roughly 1/2 a pound tails on 
• Salt & Pepper to your liking 
• 5 square ⬜️ egg roll or lumpia wrappers, cut in half into 10 triangles 📐
• 1 tablespoon water 💦
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch🌽, tapioca starch, or potato starch🥔 for sealing
• Your choice of dipping sauce- we like to use sweet chili sauce, used for lumpia!

Cooking Instructions: 

Prepare your wrappers

1. Thaw out your wrappers if frozen
2. Fold to cut into 10 triangle shapes

*Sometimes wrappers stick together, make sure to double check before rolling

Prepare your shrimp 

1. Peel and devein your shrimp, leave tails on 
2. Salt and pepper shrimp lightly to marinate, adjust your salt according to your choice of dip. Note: Some dips are saltier than others!
3. Set aside for 10 minutes (We usually prep this before we cut our wrappers)

Starch Slurry 

1. Mix starch of choice with water to create a slurry to seal your shrimp rolls 

Roll your shrimp rolls 

1. To begin, place one egg roll wrapper in front of you with one point of the long side of the triangle shaped wrapper towards you.
2. Place shrimp & fold bottom edge of the wrapper over the shrimp.
3. Roll until you met the end of the wrapper

Deep Fry 

1. In a deep pan medium or large pan, add 1/2 cup of oil. 
2. *Heat oil to 375F
3. Fry Fry Fry ! Don't overcrowd and fry about 3 at a time

Enjoy with your fave dipping sauce ! 🍤🍤🍤🍤

*Pro tip: If you don't have a temperature gauge to check your oil temp, take a wooden chopstick and dip in oil. If tiny bubbles appear around the chopsticks, your oil is ready! 

Photo courtesy of devour Asia