Spring rolls | The whole process from start to finish

I take you on a very educative journey right here as everything you need to know about spring rolls is disclosed to you in a very simple but rich language. Spring rolls are products of flour and other ingredients which are very tasty and so lovely for the family to consume for snack, breakfast or even included in a course meal. These rolls are specially made and then fried into a state that you can enjoy with all nutritious value. To make this food product, you need only a few ingredients that are very affordable and easily accessible anyway anytime. What are these ingredients?

Ingredients for making spring rolls: 

• Flour

• Sugar
• Salt
• Cooking oil
• Carrot
• Cabbage
• Spring onions
• Bell-shaped pepper and other vegetables of your choice.

For a simple spring rolls preparation, the above ingredients are great but in case you want a more richer kind where you can even add meat or corned beef, that is really going to be great so try it out.

Flour is the main constituent of the whole thing and so it can't be left out.

➤The Process

Pour flour into a bowl, add salt and sugar then mix with water into an even consistency to form a paste. For even easier mixing, dissolve salt and sugar in water and then use the solution to mix the flour. 

As shown below, the hand is normally used for mixing it and it aids mix it very well avoiding the presence of lumps.

In mixing these ingredients, there must be a level or restriction to the amount of water that is added in order for the paste or mixture not to become almost watery. This can disrupt a good preparation process. Water should always be added bit by bit as and when it is required because too much water will make the whole thing become non-workable.

The mixture looking very even in texture and appearance

The next thing after properly mixing these ingredients is to get a flat pan unto a heat source so that it gets heated. The heat has to be moderate to prevent over heating or burning of the smeared paste.

Now, a small amount of the paste is smeared in the pan which is at this moment still on heat. 

Smearing paste into hot pan

The heat causes the paste in the pan to partially cook or kind of get solidified a bit and once one side is done, the other side can be turned so that both sides are well acted upon by the heat. Continue this process of smearing paste in the pan until the entire paste in the bowl is finished.

This is how the heated paste becomes and something good is already starting to show.

The process still continues, and at this stage the vegetables at hand are neatly washed and cut into very small pieces and mixed together. Once the vegetables are mixed and preferably fish or meat also added, proceed to pick flat slabs and pour some amount of the mixed vegetables unto them. After adding the vegetables, fold the slabs into a spring roll.

Cut vegetables mixed together in a bowl.

This video below gives an insight of how the folding of the slabs is done.

Below shows spring rolls in a nicely arranged fashion ready for the frying process.

The frying is very easy to undergo and as a note, the heat has to be moderate to prevent over frying or burning of the rolls. 

Rolls ready for frying

The rolls are now fried and ready for consumption.

Finally, do you know the side attractions of this food or whatever name you might call it? To o enjoy one can even eat these with shito, stew and soft drinks. In the preparation of a thing like this, there are a lot of creative ways to go about it and one of such is the inclusion or addition of spaghetti inside of it. Remember cooking is an art to some people so however you make it delicious for consumption, it is your taste. This also goes well with mashed fante kenkey.