Lumpia Shanghai Recipe By Maria Epps

Here is another delicious and unique recipe of Filipino favorite lumpiang shanghai made by a Filipina living abroad. This one is sent to me by one of my twitter friend and currently one of the admins of our famous Facebook page, Maria Epps.

Maria is a mom who loves to cook! She is a Virginia Commonwealth University graduate, a former corporate executive turned business owner and philanthropist. She is currently living in the US. She do have a Filipina blood as well.

Check out Maria's Facebook profile and Maria's twitter profile to know more about her.

And about her Lumpia Shanghai recipe, here it is.

Note: This recipe is directly copied from her email to me. Unedited at all.


Lumpia Shanghai Recipe By Maria Epps

You will need:

Spring roll/lumpia wrappers
1 package of ground beef or ground turkey
4-5 whole carrots
1 head of cabbage
1 small onion
soy sauce
seasoning salt or GOYA seasoning
vegetable or canola oil
a small bowl of water
1 beaten egg in a small bowl


Prepare mixture filling:

Shred cabbage and carrots and mix together. Cut and dice about half of onion.
Cook onion in pan, remove and place on the side.
Cook ground beef or turkey well in pan until brown or no longer pink. Drain.
Add shredded cabbage and carrots, then cooked diced onion.


Remove spring roll wrappers from package. Be sure the smooth side is on the inside where you will be placing your filling. This makes wrapping and sealing easier. Take each wrapper individually & place on a plate in a diamond shape with corner pointing towards you and spoon fill with mixture filling in the middle. Wrap in lumpia style, bottom corner upwards over the filling, rolling tightly, then tucking the side corners inside and continuing the roll until complete. Finger dip in water bowl and in egg bowl to seal the end of roll.

When all rolls are finished, pan fry in a skillet until slightly golden brown. Best served hot! Enjoy!!

Recipe by: Maria Epps

Lumpia Recipe

In Filipino foods and recipe culture, lumpia are eggrolls that are deep-fried like a wrapped stick of meat. Lumpia is a spring roll filled with ground or finely mince of pork, beef or vegetables then served it with sweet and sour sauce. It is also known as lumpia shanghai. Filipinos are well known for its unique and one of a kind Lumpia recipe.

Lumpia are a type of stuffed pastry, like a spring roll. Lumpia or spring roll originated from the Chinese, and other Asian countries have their counterparts, like the popiah of Singapore and Malaysia. In Indonesia, it is also called lumpia.

The term lumpia derives from lunpia in the Hokkien dialect of Chinese. A variant is the Vietnamese lumpia, wrapped in a thinner piece of pastry, in a size close to a spring roll though the wrapping closes the ends off completely, which is typical for a lumpia .

Lumpiang Shanghai With Sweet And Sour Sauce

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Lumpiang Shanghai Recipe

 Ingredients:

· 1 lb. ground pork

· 1 cup chopped shrimps

· 1/4 cup finely chopped onions

· 1/2 cup finely chopped carrots

· 2 whole eggs

· 3 tbsp. soy sauce

· 3 dashes of sesame oil

· salt and pepper, to taste

· lumpia wrapper

· vegetable oil, for frying

Cooking Procedures :

1. In a bowl, combine all ingredients. Mix until well blended.

2. Wrap into thin rolls in lumpia wrapper. Fry in deep hot oil.

3. Drain on paper towels. Transfer to a serving platter. Serve with your favorite catsup or make your own Sweet and Sour Sauce recipe.

Lumpia is a traditional Filipino dish. It is the Filipino version of the egg rolls. It can be served as a side dish or as an appetizer.