Japanese spring roll – “Harumaki”
About Japanese spring roll – “Harumaki”
This time is a recipe for Japanese spring roll – “Harumaki”. “Harumaki” is the Japanese name for spring roll. It is a literal translation, “Haru” means spring, and “Maki” means Rolling. In fact, spring rolls are a very common food in Japan. You can buy them at the supermarkets, eat them at a restaurant, or make them at home.
Spring rolls seem to be popular all over the world, and even in the Netherlands where I live, they are well known under the name “Loempia”. And here it is common to eat it with sweet chili sauce. In Japan, I used to eat it with mustard and soy sauce, but I find sweet chili sauce goes very well. Therefore, I mostly eat it with sweet chili sauce.
I think you can find many spring roll recipes online. In this post, I will share the spring roll recipe that I have been making for many years. I’ve tried various recipes before, but now it’s a recipe that you can make with less ingredients.
Below is a link to an article about spring rolls, so please read it if you like.
Recipe tips
Spring roll wrappers
Spring roll wrappers come in a variety of sizes, but I usually use 19 cm square ones. Therefore, the number of finished spring rolls will vary depending on the size of the wrapper you use. So please use the one you like or the size you can easily get. Where I live, I can only get frozen ones, but I can thaw them and use them without any problems.
Ingredients
You can use various ingredients for the filling. This recipe uses minced meat, glass noodles, bean sprouts and green onions. For example, it is delicious to add shiitake mushrooms, carrots, bamboo shoots, etc. Regarding meat, you can cut pork or chicken in small pieces and use it instead of minced meat. You can use seafood such as shrimp as well. Try different things and find out what you like.
Japanese spring roll – “Harumaki”
Equipment
- 1 Frying pan
Ingredients
- 100 gram Green onion
- 125 gram Bean sprouts
- 30 gram Dried glass noodles / bean vermicelli
- 300 gram Ground pork or ground pork and beef
- A piece of Ginger (peeled and finely chopped)
- 1 tablespoon Vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon Japanese sake or Chinese rice wine or sherry
- 2 tablespoon Japanese soy sauce
- 2 tablespoon Oyster sauce
- 1 teaspoon Granulated sugar or caster sugar
- 2 teaspoon Cornstarch
- 2 teaspoon Water to dissolve cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon All-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon Water to dissolve all-purpose flour
- 16 Spring roll wrappers (19 x 19 cm)
- Appropriate amount of Frying oil
Instructions
- Soak the glass noodles (bean vermicelli) in hot water for 15 to 20 minutes. Drain noodles, then cut into easy-to-eat lengths. Cut the green onions into 5 mm widths. Wash and drain the bean sprouts and pat dry with paper towel.
- Put vegetable oil and chopped ginger in a frying pan and heat on medium heat. When ginger’s aroma comes out, add ground meat. Fry until the color of the meat turned to brown. (If there is a lot of oil and fat, absorb it with a paper towel.)
- Add bean sprouts and fry until cooked. Then add glass noodles and green onion and stir fry.
- Add seasonings (Japanese sake, Japanese soy sauce, oyster sauce, and sugar), and continue to stir fry. Add cornstarch dissolved in water and stir the whole until thicken. Remove the filling from the heat and let it cool.
- When the filing has cooled, wrap them up. Dissolve the flour in water. Place the filing below the center and fold the bottom and sides inward. Apply the flour dissolved in water to the upper corner with your finger. Roll in the direction of flour-coated corner.
- Repeat this until there are no fillings left. Place the rolls on a plate or tray.
- Heat the oil to 170C=338F in a frying pan (do not try to fry it all at once, but divide it into two or three parts according to the size of the frying pan and the amount of oil). Add the spring rolls, turn it upside down several times, fry it for a total of 4 to 5 minutes or until it becomes golden brown.
- Drain the oil well.
Notes
It’s delicious so please try it once. I put a link to a recipe that can be made with similar ingredients, so please try that as well.
Thank you for reading and Bon Appetit!