Chicken Shanghai

Chicken Shanghai or “Chicken Lumpia with Vegetables” is a fan-favorite dish that you’re sure to find at a birthday or holiday party. Crispy festive looking appetizer that’s great for big or small parties or to enjoy by yourself. These can be done as easy as 4 to 5 steps, using chicken breasts, vermicelli noodles, spring onions, carrot, garlic, oyster sauce blended then rolled onto a dumpling or egg roll wrapper then fried into beautifully crisp golden garlands.

Chicken Shanghai Rolls Recipe :

Ingredients:

• 4 pieces boneless chicken breasts
• 1 pack vermicelli noodles
• Bunch of spring onion
• 1 piece carrot ( chopped )
• 2 cloves garlic
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
• Large dumpling or egg roll wrapper
• oil

Steps:

1. First; soak the noodles for 10 minutes. Drain, then roughly cut the noodles before setting these aside.
2.  Place the chicken breasts, spring onions, noodles, carrot, garlic, salt, pepper, and oyster sauce in a blender or grinder. Blend or grind until it has a ‘mushy’ consistency.
3. Cut the wrapper in half diagonally. Separate each triangle, place 1 forkfull or the filling in the middle. Spread it like a log. Then roll from the bottom of the wrapper. 
4. Once halfway, moisten the remaining top with water then continue rolling. Twist the ends. Tie the ends into a knot and repeat until all the fillings have been wrapped.
5. In a pan with hot oil, carefully place the chicken shanghai in. Fry until both sides turn golden and crispy, flip if needed. Then take these out of the pan. Serve hot.

How to make Chicken Shanghai ?

This Chicken Shanghai Rolls recipe is so easy even kids can help with creating the dish, with supervision. It is a nice snack time treat, rice topper, or appetizer to serve at small or big parties like birthdays, holiday celebrations, or at fiestas. This version of shanghai rolls are for those who want a bit more ‘healthy’ protein into your diet, using chicken rather than pork or beef, and adding a good amount of vegetables which can be easily hidden by the wrapper and meat. Which is also a great option to feed non-vegetable eating kids or even adults.

You only need a few chicken shanghai ingredients to make this delicious dish. Starting with preparing the vermicelli noodles by soaking these in warm water to soften. Drain and roughly chop these to make it easier to blend later on. Then add the boneless chicken breasts into a blender or grinder, adding in spring onions, the vermicelli noodles, carrots, garlic cloves, seasoning with salt, pepper, and oyster sauce to give you that umami flavor. Blend until you get a mushy consistency, or until you like how ‘chunky’ or ‘smooth’ it is. Then prepare your lumpia wrapper, dumpling wrapper, or egg roll wrapper. It would be best to find the larger one to be able to cut this diagonally to create the garland-like shape. In one triangle, place a tablespoon or a bit more in the middle. Spread the filling into a horizontal log then roll from the bottom to the top halfway. Once halfway to the top, moisten with water to help make the wrapper sticky which makes sure the filling inside will be sealed. Continue rolling till the tip, twisting both ends like a candy wrapper. Tie the both ends together to make it look like a garland. Repeat until all the fillings have been wrapped.

Prepare some hot oil in a pan, carefully place the chicken shanghai rolls and fry both sides until golden. If you use just a bit of oil, make sure to flip these once one side has browned. Take these out and serve freshly fried with some spiced vinegar or sweet and sour sauce on the side.

Questions

• Chicken shanghai calories

For a serving of 85 grams, the chicken lumpia shanghai calories amount to around 190 calories.

• Sauce to pair with 

Is shanghai sauce spicy? Sweet? Savory? You can use any type of sauce you like from store bought sweet and sour sauce, sriracha for those who want some heat into their appetizers, a soy sauce base using Gyoza or Dumpling sauce, peanut sauce, plum sauce, honey garlic sauce, or simply a mix of ketchup and mayo.

• How to keep spring rolls crispy for potluck?

While you can always serve this chicken lumpiang shanghai recipe fresh out of the pot. There are times that your guests might come to the party late. To keep it hot and crisp you can either deep fry these once more (double frying) after resting it for 10 minutes, or place the rolls over a wire rack or paper towels to help suck out the oil and keep them from keeping moist.

• Can you make it vegetarian?

You don’t need to change all the chicken lumpia ingredients, simply replace the ‘meat’. You can remove the chicken and replace this with tofu to make “Lumpiang Gulay”. You can also replace the meat with cabbage, potatoes, mushrooms, more carrots, and any type of vegetables you like. If you want more protein, scramble some eggs and add them into the blended filling. Just note: Do not blend the egg with the filling, add these after the filling has blended to avoid the filling to be a bit too mushy, this makes a nice and simple “Shanghai Egg Roll”.

Try our other Yummy chicken recipes here : 

• Chicken with Mushrooms and Broccoli
• Chicken Menudo Recipe ( a really savory Filipino-Spanish style chicken stewed in tomato recipe )
• Coke Chicken
• Butter Garlic Chicken Wings
• Braised Chicken Recipe

Chicken Shanghai Resipi: (Tagalog)

Mga Sankap:

• 4 piraso dibdib ng manok ( boneless )
• 1 pack ng vermicelli noodles
• Bungkos dahon ng sibuyas
• 1 piraso karot ( hiniwa ng malaki )
• 2 butil ng bawang
• Asin at paminta panlasa
• 1 kutsarang oyster sauce
• Malaking dumpling o egg roll wrapper
• mantika

Paano Lutuin :

1. Una; ibabad ang mga noodles sa tubing ng 10 minuto. Tanggalin sa tubig at hiwain ng konti bago itabi.
2. Ilagay ang mga manok, dahon ng sibuyas, noodles, karot, bawang, asin, paminta, at oyster sauce sa blender o grinder. Iblend o grind.
3. Hiwain ang wrapper ng pa-dayagonal. Sa isang tatsulok, maglagay ng 1 tinidor o kutsarang laman sa gitna. Ikalat ng pahaba. Irolyo mula sa ilalim pa taas.
4. Pag nasa gitna na, ibasa ng konti ang natitirang wrapper sa itaas ng tubig bago ipagpatuloy ang pag rolyo. I-twist ang mga dulo. Itali ang mga dulo at ulitin ang mga ito hanggang maubos ang palaman.
5. Sa kawali na may mainit na mantika, ilagay ang mga chicken shanghai. Iprito hanggang mag-golden ang bawat gilid, pag baliktarin kung kailangan. Tanggalin sa kawali at ihanda habang mainit.