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Spring Rolls

Amma's notebook · Breakfast, snacks & starters, page 7

Thin homemade wrappers rolled around saucy sautéed vegetables and fried.

Spring Rolls, in Amma's handwriting (part 1 of 2)Spring Rolls, in Amma's handwriting (part 2 of 2)
Amma's original (the recipe continues onto the next page). Tap to open full size.

Method

  1. Make a thin batter of cornflour and maida with a little salt. Make thin dosas, cooked on one side only on the tawa.
  2. Sauté the veggies with salt, pepper, tomato sauce and chilli sauce.
  3. Spread a dosa sheet, apply water on all sides, fill with the veggies and roll into a stick. Press the edges with a little water.
  4. Fry. Cut in half or serve whole.

Serve with

Tabasco, Capsico sauce or any sauce of your choice.

Amma's notes

  • One word above 'on one side' is written in Devanagari: तवा (tawa).

Typed up from Amma's handwritten notebook. Her Hindi and Urdu words are kept as she wrote them.

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