Ingredients

Let’s Cook!

• 1
  Add all meat ingredients together, mix well. Let sit 15 minutes to allow flavors to infuse.
  
• 2
  Prepare onion, garlic and celery first
  
• 3
  Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in largish sized stir-fry, wok or skillet, on medium high.
• 4
  Add meat mixture, chop up and turn to cook
• 5
  When the meat is about half way cooked, add the onion, garlic and celery. Stir to combine.
• 6
  Setup a large bowl with a bunch of paper towels at the bottom
  
• 7
  When the onion is translucent, add the chopped cabbage and water chestnuts
  
• 8
  Turn/stir until the cabbage is mostly cooked
• 9
  Mix corn starch with water from sauce, add to pan, stir well, about 1-2 Minutes
• 10
  Reduce heat to medium
• 11
  Add rest of sauce ingredients to pan, stir for about 2 minutes.
• 12
  Add green onions and bean sprouts, stir to combine, cook for about 1 minute well stirring.
  
• 13
  Turn of heat, give one last stir. Transfer to the bowl with paper towels at the bottom.
• 14
  Allow to cool down so you can handle it without burning yourself, about 15-20 minutes.
• 15
  Mix the assembly cornstarch and water. This will be the "glue" that holds the wrapper together.
• 16
  I pretty much followed the instruction on the wrappers I bought. Pretty straight forward. A picture explains it the best, please refer to this step picture.
  
• 17
  Layout a wrapper, using your finger, run a line of the "glue" along the top two edges, see picture.
  
• 18
  Place some of the filling in the middle, leave about an inch from the edge, roll like the picture in the prior step.
  
• 19
  I find if you try to make it to right, the wrapper will rip. So just snug it a little, let the "glue" hold it together.
  
• 20
  Put enough oil in a pan to go about half way up the wrapped rolls. I found medium heat was just right on my stove-top. I don't have a thermometer, so it was all guess work, trail and error. I started on medium high, but they cooked to fast, got too dark.
• 21
  Carefully place egg rolls in the hot oil, don't overcrowd them.
  
• 22
  Just keep an eye on them and flip them over when they look right to you. Mine were about 2 1/2 minutes the first side, and 1 1/2 minutes the second side
  
• 23
  We just had a variety of sauces, some dipping sauce, mustard, mayonnaise and hot sauce
• 24
  I tried to be neat, I really did, just reside yourself, this is a messy proposition.