Creamy Corn Spring Rolls
By Sid • Feb 17th, 2008 • Category: Asian Food, Dips & Sauces, Fusion Food, Oriental Food, Snacks, Starters, Vegetarian Food |
These creamy, crunchy and delicious spring rolls are light, crisp and quite simple to make. We had a few friends over for lunch and thought the kids would like them. The adults loved them too! First the filling - thinly slice some cabbage, mix with tartar sauce, corn kernels, five spice powder They’re great for a light mid meal snack, cocktail snacks or an entree. |
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What oil would you fry them in? We are being encouraged to use Canola or, as it is usually called in England, Rape Seed oil, since it is deemed to be better for us than other vegetable oils.
hello Toni,
I don’t think the oil will make any difference to the taste, as long as we go with a non-aromatic oil. I use sunflower seed oil as it is supposed to be good for the heart.
aromatic oils include olive, mustard and sesame among others.
technically, the best oil for deep frying is peanut oil, due to its high smoke point.
sid
The rest of this lunch included steamed rice, thai green curry with chicken, three mushroom stir fry, chinese style vegetable stew and a platter of carrot/cucumber sushi. good fun!
sid
Sounds like you had quite a variety of cusines there! I always expect Indians to eat Indian food for some reason! Probably because all the Indians I know here will always eat it. Stupid thought really! I take your point about the oil, thanks for responding. Rape seed oil is supposed to be better for the heart than peanut oil, or so we are told by our Government spokespeople!
I’m interested in the medicinal properties of the spices that you use there and wonder if you can point me in the direction of a web page that might give me more information than I already have? I know about ginger for example and believe that cardomom is good for blood flow but would like to extend my knowledge.
I know just what you mean [indians eating indian food].
True, peanut oil may not be as healthy as other alternatives available. My point was purely for technical reasons - smoke point.
Medicinal properties: Sure! Have you tried wikipedia by the way. It is an amazing resource for such information?
Sid
Thanks for your response. I’m never quite sure whether one should trust Wiki, but I will give it a try!
Hello Toni,
I lay quite a bit of trust on Wikipedia, simply because there are so many people editing things there and so many levels of people.
It is quite difficult to insert fraudulent information there. I believe Mr. Bush and the CIA have tried, failed and been exposed during separate, unrelated attempts.
Sid
Mr Bush failed at something? Surely not?? LOL!
OK then, I’ll give it a try but not just yet as I’m far too busy at the office. If only the bosses would realize that work is a poor second for me and reading blogs is my main occupation…
Boss trouble - did you try garlic?
What do you do btw?
Here are some links to get you started:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriander
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turmeric
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anise
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseradish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardamom
Sid
If I have garlic breath I get fired as I am Receptionist at an Accountancy practice. Clients would complain abot the odour, don’t they know it is really perfume??
Blushing now, I forgot to thank you for the spice list! Will have a look in more detail after lunch or tomorrow.
Spice list: no problem at all.
Boss: I meant - hang garlic around your Workplace - keeps bosses, werewolves, vampires and other such species away.
Where are you based btw?
Sid
More on garlic. I don’t know what kind you get there. Here, we get two major types - small, thin skinned and white and the large ones, which are thick skinned, peel easily and yellowish.
The little ones are killers when it comes to flavor. At least double the flavor of the big ones I would say!
Sid