EASY EGGROLLS

A few months ago I made some simple eggrolls for my husband to bring to our neighborhood meeting.. it was always a crowd pleaser, usually it'd be the most liked. One of the lady from our neighborhood requested the recipe through my husband, and I was.. yes..okay.. then forget about it.. ha.. my bad.. then last week my husband saw her again and she had the same request, this time with her email address attached..

So to fulfill her request, here I'm..  writing the most simple recipe with easy ingredients to find in our local grocery stores.

Let's start with our ingredients: basically we can use anything we like
- 1 lbs of seasoned sausage, Jimmy Dean or 1 lbs of ground meat
- 1/2 medium brown onion, finely chopped
- 1 pack of ready to use coleslaw mix ( shredded cabbage and carrot) or you can use anything, like: mushroom, bamboo shoot, jicama, water chestnut,  even potato or tofu, all diced in small cube
- 2 thinly chopped green onion
- 2 eggs, slightly beaten (optional)
- 4 oz of chopped shrimps (optional, it's better if using ground meat)
- salt and pepper to taste
- store bought eggroll wrappers

Method:
- brown sausage (or ground meat) and break it into fine crumbs
- add onion
- add raw coleslaw, sautee until soft, add in green onion
- add chopped shrimps if using ground meat
- add eggs (optional), stir until well blended
- season with salt and pepper, no need much seasoning if we use sausage
- if the meat mixture is too juicy, separate the juice and the meat (drain it), we need a dry filling
- thaw eggroll wrapper, lay 1 wrapper on a plate (cover the rest with clean dam towel)
- add 1 tbsp of the filling, roll it, try to roll it tightly
- stick the edge with water.. put it in a container, again, cover with dam paper towel
- repeat it until all the filling is gone
- let it sit in the refrigerator for an hour
- heat 2 inches of canola / vegetable oil in pan until about 350 'F
- carefully put the eggroll in the hot oil, reduce the heat to 325'F
- fry until golden brown, drain it on the strainer or clean paper towel

For the sauce:
- 1/2 cup of tomato ketchup
- dash of chili sauce
- 1tsp of sugar or honey
- grated ginger (optional)

Make: 15 to 20 eggrolls