Healthy Homemade Popia

Popia (popiah) is a Chinese-style fresh spring roll. A popiah "skin" (薄餅皮) is a soft, flimsy paper-like crepe or pancake made from wheat flour. To save time, I would advise buying the popia skin outside. The popia skin can be found in some wet markets. But it needs to be eaten fresh or within a day. If left without choices, we could use the tortilla to wrap it. Tortilla is available at Lotus/ Tesco or any hypermarket.

Ingredients (for 4 persons):

1. Popia skin (20 sheets)

2. Coral lettuce (blanched)

3. Crushed roasted peanut (1/2 cup)

4. Seafood sauce (can be found in Lotus/Tesco)

5. Steamed eggs (optional)

6. Peeled Yam bean (1)

7. Black fungus/ mushroom (50g)

8. Red carrot (1)

9. Dried Shrimp (1 cup)

Ingredients 6-9: cut into small pieces

*The highlighted ingredients are the main fillings for popia. They need to be cooked prior to the wrap.

Step-by-step:

1. Cook the crushed dried shrimp in a hot frying pan.

2. After  2-3 mins, add in yam bean, red carrot, black fungus

3. Put in light soy sauce (1tbsp), oyster sauce (1tbsp), salt (1/2 tsp), and pepper(1/2 tsp)

4. Continue to fry for 5 mins to mix well and then add in some 1-2 bowls of water

5. Cover the frying pan with a lid and turn into low flame

6. Simmer for 3 mins and then it is ready to be served.

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