March '01- Baked Egg Rolls

[makedah]

Yours is the first positive review of the baked egg rolls that I have seen. I actually took it off my "Must Try" list because of the negative reviews here. Perhaps I should reconsider...

[emilycat]

One of the girls in my supper club made these for our last meeting, and we all loved them....she only had one left to take home! I thought they were really flavorful, and definitely didn't taste baked.

[JJeannette]

I used the basic idea to make baked crab ragoons---worked out pretty good!

[Grace]

Wow, I wasn't going to make these either, based on the negative reviews I'd seen, but if EMILY says they were good, well then, they must be good!! http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/smile.gif My husband is an egg roll FIEND and I was so excited when I first saw the recipe, since I cringe whenever I watch him eat restaurant egg rolls (which he does as often as he can!). I thought I'd finally be able to make him some healthier ones, but then saw the negative reviews and decided not to chance it with him (he's picky about his egg rolls!). I have officially changed my mind and will put these on the definite "to try" list! Thanks, Em! http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/smile.gif

[emilycat]

Oh, gosh, I certainly hope you two like them, then, or I'll feel responsible! http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/wink.gif

Seriously, I thought they were great, and I'm not even an eggroll fan.

[lrr]

Has anyone tried the Baked Egg rolls? My DH and I thought they were FABULOUS! We almost made ourselves sick! I did, however, make a subs. I didn't have any ground turkey, so I had some cooked chicken breasts that I sliced and put in the food processor to get the same consistency.

[lu lu]

I also thought they were great! A definite repeater.

[valchemist]

I am not that knowledgeable about asian cooking. But I do like eggrolls and I would like to try these. The recipe suggests to serve the egg rolls with rice noodles as a main course. I would like to serve them as a main course. Any other suggestions for accompaniments? Or would the rice noodles be best? How did you all serve them?

Valerie

[kentgirl]

Maybe I'm missing something here. I haven't seen any other reviews of the Baked Egg Rolls, negative or otherwise, except for this topic. I love egg rolls, and I'm glad to read you like them emilycat...but what negative reviews is everyone referring to? I'd like to read them.

I did a Search and couldn't find anything, but I don't trust the Search function these days!

Thanks,

[doggerham]

I saw the negative reviews AFTER I had already put them on the menu for our supper club dinner tomorrow night. I feel much better now!! Will let you know how Houston feels about them tomorrow or Monday.

Amy

[kwormann]

Amy

Am interested in how your supper club liked the egg rolls, and, I didnt know there was another supper club in Houston......ours also met last night. Where to all of you live?

Also, someone post the recipe?????The evil CL grimlins stole my March issue....I cant find it anywhere!

TIA

Kim

[This message has been edited by kwormann (edited 03-18-2001).]

[doggerham]

Hi Kim:

Our club started in Dec. '99. Four couples -two in the Heights, one in Sugar Land and one in Copperfield.

Sounds like we need to have a party, no?

Will let you know on the eggrolls.

A

[kentgirl]

Kim, here's the recipe:


* Exported from MasterCook *

Baked Egg Rolls

Recipe By :
Serving Size : 14 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Appetizers

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Egg Rolls
2/3 cup coarsely chopped celery
2/3 cup coarsely chopped carrot
2 cups shredded cabbage
1/2 teaspoon vegetable oil
2/3 cup chopped onion
1/2 teaspoon minced peeled fresh ginger
1 garlic clove -- minced
1/2 pound ground turkey breast
1 1/2 tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
14 egg roll wrappers
1 large egg white
Cooking spray
Sauce
3/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce
6 tablespoons rice vinegar
2 tablespoons dark sesame oil
1 tablespoon minced peeled fresh ginger
1/3 cup thinly sliced green onions -- optional

Preheat oven to 425º.
Combine celery and carrot in food processor, and pulse 10 times or until finely chopped.
Combine celery mixture and cabbage in a medium bowl. Cover with plastic wrap; vent. Microwave on HIGH 5 minutes, drain.
Heat vegetable oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion, 1/2 teaspoon ginger, and garlic; saute 2 minutes. Add turkey; cook 5 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in cabbage mixture, 1 1/2 tablespoon soy sauce, and pepper. Cover and chill 15 minutes.
Place 1 egg roll wrapper at a time onto work surface with 1 corner pointing toward you (wrapper should look like a diamond). Trim 1 inch off right and left corners of wrapper. Spoon 3 tablespoons turkey filling into center of wrapper. Fold lower corner of egg roll wrapper over filling. Fold in trimmed corners. Moisten top corner of wrapper with egg white; roll up jelly-roll fashion. Repeat procedure with remaining wrappers, turkey filling, and egg white.
Lightly coat egg rolls with cooking spray, and place, seam side down, on a baking sheet coated with cooking spray. Bake at 425º for 15 minutes, or until golden brown.
To prepare sauce, combine 3/4 cup soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil, and 1 tablespoon ginger; serve with egg rolls. Garnish with green onions, if desired.

Source:
"Cooking Light Magazine, March 2001, pg. 154"
Yield:
"14 servings"

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Per serving: 151 Calories (kcal); 3g Total Fat; (17% calories from fat); 8g Protein; 23g Carbohydrate; 9mg Cholesterol; 787mg Sodium
Food Exchanges: 1 Grain(Starch); 1/2 Lean Meat; 1 Vegetable; 0 Fruit; 1/2 Fat; 0 Other Carbohydrates

NOTES : Serving Size: 1 roll and about 1 Tbsp sauce
Nutr. Assoc. : 0 2516 2495 0 0 0 26076 0 -9228 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26076 0

[doggerham]

Our eggroll review: The filling was good, but overall we were not impressed. They never got particularly crisp, and the eggroll skins were tough. There may be better eggroll skins available, but they weren't the ones we had. The sauce was very good - tasted exactly like what you get in a restaurant with wontons.

Amy

[Mary G]

My husband and I made these yesterday...and had a great time doing so!

Here are our changes:

Use all 20 wrappers. I don't know about you, but what would you use the leftover 3 wrappers from the package for?

Don't bother cutting off the edges of the egg roll wrappers...it seems like such a waste, and works fine with the whole thing.

Bake at 375 for 13 minutes.... we tried it at the higher setting, and it seemed to get too crisp and dark too quickly.

We served this with lots of rice....yum!

It almost seemed like something was missing in the filling, but neither of us could put our finger on it. Some type of veggie perhaps?

[luv2cook]

Kim, Amy - I agree, I smell a bigger party! Amy: our club meets the third Sat. of each month. So far it seems to work for everyone...

[lrr]

I'm like Kentgirl in that I never saw any negative reviews. I'm certainly glad I didn't because I,too, would have never made them. I was actually testing them one night (to serve later at supper club in Birmingham), and they ended up being our meal!

We used egg roll wrappers from a local Asian market and they baked Very crispy.

[Abby]

I made these last night and thought they were fun to make, also. I used Melissa's eggroll wrappers, which came 14 to a package so I didn't have any leftovers, however, I would have preferred to put more filling in each eggroll rather than the 3 tbsp. that the recipe states. DH and I thought they were very tasty and ate several more than the stated serving size! However, we did have them with stir fry as an entree instead of as an appetizer. I baked mine as the recipe stated and didn't have any problems - they came out perfectly golden brown. I did add some chopped red pepper, which made the filling even prettier. Next time I think I'll try the same concept but with mexican/southwest-type fillings.

I'll definitely make these again on a weekend; they were a little too involved for a weeknight meal.

[lrr]

Abby, now that you mention it I didn't even measure as I was filling the wrapper. Again, I was just experimenting so my main goal was the taste. I probably put 5 tbs. in each wrapper.

[deb]

I found the egg rolls to be crispy and chewy,
very uneven. I would not make them again like
they turned out but if they were evenly crispy i would make them again. Maybe I did
not use enough cooking spray. Any suggestions? Were everybody elses even?

[RUSTYSMOM]

I made these yesteday and loved them - they were pretty easy and very good. I made the mixture in the morning and had my husband stuff and roll them later in the day for luch. I added chopped mushrooms. Next time I will add more vegetables. I wish I had brought a couple for lunch....