Lumpia Daging (Beef spring roll)

This is one of my favourite, the last time I made it was last summer, when I had this summer holiday and staying with my in laws in Sweden. In contrary to the Western food that consists of three sets of menu like appetizer, main food and then desserts, Indonesian style of eating rarely served appetizer. Most of the time we will have rice and other dishes and then came the deserts.

On this recipe I do it slightly different, without the bamboo shoots nor ground chicken. I used ground beef instead and add spices like cumin on to it. The smell and the taste is dangerously delicious, yes! I mean it when I said so, you cannot end up eating one. My friends at least having two pieces and once my brother in law did not stop till the 10th pieces. So I warned you, if you are on diet, take one or two and pack the rest :)

Here is the recipe:

1. Spring roll pastry (ready at any supermarket)
2. Filling

1 pound ground beef
1/2 pack bean sprout, cut into 3 parts
2 carrots cut it into small diced
1 onion cit it into small diced
1 teaspoon od salt
1/2 teaspoon of sugar
( alternatively you can just add 1 beef or chicken block)
1 table spoon ground corriander
1 table spoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon ground garlic
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
2 pcs ofscallion cut it into small pieces
5 table spoon oilve oil to stir fry the ingredient
Vegetable oil to fry the spring roll

Directions:
1. Filling:

-Heat the wok and add the olive oil, add the onion till fragrant and then add the ground beef and stir till it half cooked. Then put in the corriander, cumin, garlic, black pepper and the beef block then add the scallion and the carrots and bean sprouts. Stir few more minutes 3-5 minutes, turn of the heat and let it cool down.

2. Take one of the spring roll pastry and then scoop one or two table spoon of the filling and then wrap and roll it. Do it continously until the filling or the pastry finish.

3. Heat the vegetable oil, it has got to be very hot and then put the wrapped spring rolls in. Turn it back and forth till the collor turn yellowish.


4. Take it out and put it on a cloth or dining tissue, to get rid of the oil. Serve it with Thai chillies sauce or Fresh chilles (if you can stand that burning hot sensation)