Best Egg Roll,
Spring Roll,
and Dumpling
Recipes from
Mama Lis Kitchen
Sarah Spencer
Editor: Marjorie Kramer
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Mama Li showed me everything I know about cooking Asian foods. One of the fondest memories I have from Mama Li was helping her make dumplings, egg rolls, and spring rolls for a friends wedding. It was a family affair, and everyone was helping out. We were doing everything from rolling the dough, making the shapes, making the fillings, folding the egg rolls, spring rolls, and dumplings just right, cooking them and finally getting them packed and ready to go. We had made what seem to me to be thousands of them! She had 12 different kinds of filling, and each one had a different shape. It took us two full days to make all these little packets full of goodness. Some she would fry, others would be steamed, and some were just baked in the oven. They were all done from scratch. For those two days, we ate, lived, and laughed dumplings! They were the best that I had ever tasted.
It has become a tradition in our family to cook like Mama Li. In this book, you will find a collection of her best recipes for egg rolls, spring rolls, and dumplingsand a few bonus recipes! They are filled with flavors from Asia, delicate and so fragrant. The ingredients are fresh, healthy, and wholesome. They are easy to find. If you happen to be living near an Asian market, dont hesitate to visit and get some of your ingredients there. It will make it even more authentic.
In this book, you will find everything you need to know about making delicious, home-made egg rolls, spring rolls, and dumplings, including:
- How to make the dough for egg rolls, spring rolls, and dumplings
- How to make fillings
- The basic techniques for making egg rolls including rolling, cutting, and folding the dough for egg rolls, spring rolls, and dumplings
- How to stock your pantry with the basic ingredients you will need to make egg rolls, spring rolls, and dumplings
- Five bonus recipes for making the most popular appetizers in Chinese restaurants, including garlic spare ribs and shrimp toasts.
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INTRODUCTION
Mama Li came to America, all the way from China, when she was just 13 years old. She met her husband while working in the kitchen of a New York City Chinatown restaurant. Eventually, they had five children and moved to the Philadelphia area where, as husband and wife, they operated a Chinese takeout restaurant. I became friends with her youngest daughter, Jade, who went to the same school as me. We quickly became best friends. I used to visit the restaurant often after school with Jade. We would watch Mama Li prepare the orders. When I got older, Mama Li gave me my first summer job, cooking in her kitchen. What an experience it was! Hot, fast, exhausting, but also rewarding! I learned to cook well and prepare mouth-watering Asian food with only one pan, the wok. I still have the old, beat up wok she gave me when my family moved to Canada a few years later.
In this book, you will find the best egg rolls, spring rolls, and dumplings recipes I learned from Mama Li and her wonderful family. I have adapted the recipes over the years to fit my own familys diet requirements and taste.
Having the whole family participate can make your meal preparation much more enjoyable. Youll need good supervision of the little ones since there is chopping involved. Everyone has specific instructions to cut up the vegetables and other ingredients.
I hope you will enjoy making these appetizers recipes.
Sarah
COOKING ASIAN APPETIZERS
Flavors
Asian cooking is all about flavors. The spices and condiments used in Asian cooking are aromatic and taste delightful. By aromatic, I mean an incredible, appetizing smell that floods your senses.
Asian cooking is completely based on fresh ingredients. It avoids canned foods and thus, the food rates very high on health scales. People in the most parts of Asia prefer to put organic ingredients in their food, be it vegetables or meat. Asian food is like a party for all your senses, but especially the taste buds!
When cooking the Asian food, a pantry full of all the essentials will help to get the taste right. Other than spices, there are a lot of other must-haves, like flour, coconut, and vegetables. In the Asian category, you will find a plethora of options in both vegetarian as well as non-vegetarian food.
Be it meat, sea food, or breads, Asia does everything differently. In this book, you will learn and taste the awesomeness of Asian cooking. There are hundreds of recipes that go back thousands of years, and have been equally loved by all generations.
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