SPRING ROLL

Spring Rolls

Spring rolls are a crispy dish/snack from street foods of china. It has vegetarian or non-vegetarian bites coated with crispy layer. We can see them at bakery shops, fast food chains and in frozen form at super stores. The recipe here involves making spring rolls with whole wheat flour and sooji. We should always try and replace unhealthy ingredients with healthier options. You can choose either frying or grilling method. Grilling will make it less crisp though. The vegetables can be added as per choice. Chopped vegetables work well for this recipe. The junk food can be made healthy by adding lots of vegetables and salad to eat. Develop a habit of eating lots of salad with it so that the fibre and nutrition also reaches body.

Ingredients:-

2 cup whole wheat flour

½ cup semolina (sooji)

1 tbsp. dried and active yeast (soaked in 1/2cup water for at least ½ hour)

1 tbsp. oil

½ tsp. salt

1 ½ cup water

Filling:-

2 spring onion greens sliced

100 grams cottage cheese cut in small cubes

1 carrot grated

½ cauliflower shredded

1 capsicum thinly sliced

2 tbsp. oil

Salt to taste

½ tsp. white pepper powder

1 tbspn soy sauce

2 tbsp. cheese spread

Salt to taste

Oil for deep frying

½ tsp. white pepper powder

1 tbsp. oil

Method:-

• Make stiff dough with whole wheat flour, semolina, salt water and yeast. Cover it with wet cloth and leave for 2 hours.
• Check the dough in between apply oil and roll it again 3-4 times in this 2 hours resting time of dough.
• Refrigerate dough for at least half hour before cooking.
• Take oil in a non-stick pan and saute spring onions for 3-4 minutes.
• Add carrot, cabbage and capsicum. Saute vegetables for 3-4 minutes and white pepper powder, salt, soy sauce and cottage cheese cubes. Keep it aside so that mixture cools off.
• Make small balls of dough and make round but little thin chapattis with a rolling pin.

• Add vegetable mixture and roll the chapatti. Seal carefully all the sides and cut the sides in rectangle position. We can again use sides as dough. The mixture should be filled at corner only and rolled afterwards.
• Heat oil for deep frying. Add rolls to hot oil and flip the sides when it turns nice brown. Serve immediately as a whole or by cutting it into small pieces.
• Serve it with salad of your choice.
• Tastes best with tomato ketchup or honey-chilli sauce.