Air Fried Spring Rolls （气炸春卷）

My dear children, do you remember that grandma loves to fry spring rolls for the family especially during special festival celebration? How lucky we are to have grandma! She has her way of marinate and the ingredients she uses make her spring rolls really delicious!

Now that grandma only visit us once in awhile, mum needs to learn to do it in order to have some spring rolls in our meal.

Mummy always try my best to avoid deep frying food as it's pretty oily and mum grows fat easily. :( So, in order to have some spring rolls sometimes, I would rather use the alternate way of making them, ie. air fried them with minimal cooking oil used (via spraying or brushing).

Here's how mummy made the fillings for spring rolls:-

150g pork minced

80-100g prawn meat (minced them)

3 pips garlic (finely chopped)

3 mushrooms (soaked, diced)

1 carrot (about 13cm - 15 cm long, chopped)

5 small water chesnuts - chopped (note: I have gotten the water chesnuts from the Asian Grocery)

Put all the above in a bowl and add in:-

0.5 tsp salt

0.5 tsp sugar

0.5 tsp sesame oil

1 tsp Chinese cooking wine (Shao Xing)

dash of pepper

**Combine all the above with a spoon until well mixed! Then use a cling wrap to wrap over the bowl of fillings and put it in the fridge for minimum 4 hours / overnight.

Now, the wrapping part....

You need about 9 big pieces of spring roll pastry. Each spring roll pastry can make 4 spring rolls. Hence. you need to cut each spring roll pastry into 4 quarters.

Method:

- Firstly, place a piece of spring roll pastry on a clean kitchen top. Position the piece of spring roll pastry in a way to make it look like a rhombus instead of square.  

- Place 0.5 tbsp or 2/3 (ie 0.66) tbsp of filling on the middle of 1 piece of the spring roll pastry as per the picture above.

- Now wrap the filling by folding up the bottom corner first. Gently tap on the filling to spread it evenly within the spring roll pastry.

- Brush some water with a brush or a finger along the edges, then fold the left corner of the spring roll pastry, follow by the right corner and finally seal it by folding down the top corner of the pastry.

Once the wrapping work is done, you are ready to deep fry or air fry them. To do so, you need to brush each spring roll with some cooking oil or spray some cooking oil over the spring rolls. Preheat the airfryer at 180 degree C for about 4 or 5 minutes. Then, put in all the spring rolls into the airfryer basket or grill pan (personal preference) and airfry them for 15-20 minutes at 180 degree C or until the desirable golden brown spring rolls. Remember to check the spring rolls every 5 to 6 minutes, pull up the basket and give it a shake to make sure that the spring rolls are evenly fried! Alternatively, you may want to follow the temperature guide stated on your airfryer. I am using Philips Airfryer HD9220. The temperature guide for spring rolls is 200 degree C for 6 to 10 minutes.