Fried Vietnamese Spring Rolls – from Diem

My mother’s 50 year old recipe!
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Ingredient	Carb Grams	Fibre Grams	Calorie Count
1 lb. uncooked ground pork (or chicken)	0	0	1188.8
2 cups shredded cabbage	7.6	3.2	35.0
2 cups shredded carrots	22.4	6.6	94.6
1 bunch green onions chopped	8.8	3.2	38.4
1/2 cup shitake mushrooms, soaked, drained, finely diced	22.6	3.4	88.8
1 package small cellophane noodles, soaked, drained, chopped finely	120.5	0.7	491.4
2 eggs	1.2	0	149.0
1 T garlic powder/garlic salt	6.0	0.9	27.9
1 T onion salt	0	0	0
1 T pepper	3.9	1.8	16.2
1 tsp. salt	0	0	0
1 tsp. sugar substitute	0.5	0	2.0
24 Lumpia wrappers or rice paper.	110.4	4.8	559.2
TOTAL	303.9	24.6	2697.3

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Mix all ingredients together for filling.  If using rice paper, you have to dip them into hot water and lay them on the counter.  They will become soft and pliable. If using lumpia wrappers, keep them covered with a wet paper towel so they don't dry out.  Mine are 4g carbs per sheet. Use won ton wrappers for dumplings or pot stickers, (mine are 16 grams of carbohydrate for 5 pieces). For the spring rolls, lay the filling on the bottom third (not middle) and fold up bottom, then the two sides and roll up cigar style. For potstickers and dumplings, place filling in the middle and fold up half like moon shape.  Pan fry dumplings till golden brown on each side, then put in a little chicken broth to steam for about 15 minutes. For low carb filling, I omit the noodles, cut the carrots and onions in half and omit sugar.  (This reduces the carb count to 167.3 for the whole recipe). My mother currently makes them with just chicken. She's tired of all that chopping!  Food processors do great for shredding carrots and cabbage etc....

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Dipping sauce:

Make your own low carb sweet and sour sauce or the traditional Vietnamese dipping sauce:

1 part water
1 part sugar
1 part white vinegar
1 part Asian fish sauce
 

Microwave water, sugar and vinegar until sugar dissolves. Add 1 part Asian fish sauce (nouc mam) and add hot chili peppers to taste. This refrigerates till the end of time and can be used as a dipping sauce, marinade, dressing etc.... You can make gallons or 1 cup. Just use EQUAL PARTS!!! If you make say a cup, I think my mother has used 1/4 cup water, 1/4 cup vinegar, and 4 packets EQUAL and 1/4 cup fish sauce. .. Spring rolls - whole recipe low carb style = 163.7 grams of carbohydrate and 2137.4 calories 1 cup dipping sauce = 2.8 grams of carbohydrate and 25.2 calories Whole recipe =  166.5 grams of carbohydrate and 2162.6 calories Per spring roll (24 rolls) = 6.9 grams of carbohydrate and 90.1 calories Per serving (subtracting fibre grams in low carb style recipe) = 6.1 grams of carbohydrate .