Monday, July 16, 2012

Southwestern Egg-rolls

So this is my first time ever blogging! This weekend I decided that I wanted to try cooking something different so I found a recipe for Southwestern Egg-rolls with an Avocado Ranch dipping sauce and they turned out pretty good.
Sorry the picture is not very good but being new at this blogging thing of course I forgot to take a picture of them while they were on the platter.



Southwestern Egg-rolls with Avocado Ranch:


Ingredients for Egg-roll:
  • 1- 15 oz can of whole kernel corn
  • 1- 15 oz can black beans, rinsed and drained
  • 1- 9 oz package frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry with paper towel
  • 2 cups shredded Mexican cheese (I think that they could have used 3 cups)
  • 4 oz can diced green chiles, drained
  • 2 green onions, finely chopped
  • 1 tsp ground cumin
  • 1/2 tsp chili powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt (I used more salt than this because I love salt)
  • 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
  • 1 package of egg roll or wonton wrappers (I tried using wonton wrappers with a few and I don't think they turned out as well)
Avocado Ranch Dipping Sauce: (I had to double this recipe)
  • 1/2 cup ranch salad dressing
  • 1/2 medium ripe avocado, peeled and mashed
  • 1 tablespoon minced fresh cilantro
  • 1 teaspoon grated lime peel (I didn't have a lime so I used a squeeze of bottled lime juice)
Instructions:
  1. Preheat oven to 400.
  2. In a large bowl mix all the egg roll ingredients together ( except the egg-roll wrappers).
  3. There should be instructions on the back of the wrappers about how to roll them.
  4. Once they are all wrapped place egg rolls onto parchment paper on a baking sheet.
  5. Brush a small amount of Olive Oil onto each roll and cook for 15 minutes (I had to cook mine for almost 30 minutes and I turned them about 3 times). You will have to turn them once.
  6. They are ready once they are golden brown.
  7. For the ranch sauce I used a miniature blender to just grind everything up.
I was able to make about 14 good sized egg-rolls with this recipe. I made these for dinner but they would also be a very good appetizer.  The text that I have placed in red is how I changed the original recipe.

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