Spring rolls (or often called egg rolls and used interchangeably) is a dish found in East Asian and Southeast Asian cuisine.  Savory filling wrapped in flour-based pastry sheet and deep fried till the outer shell is crispy and golden brown.  We call this dish “Harumaki (春巻き)” in Japan, direct translation of “spring rolls” in Japanese.  Harumaki were originally introduced to Japan by the Chinese and adapted for Japanese tastes .

Typical ingredients for harumaki (Japanese spring rolls) include some type of meat (pork, shrimp, etc), carrot, shiitake mushrooms, bamboo shoot, etc.   Each family makes them slightly different, and today I’ll show how I make my tasty harumaki.  I learned my recipe from my mom using 10 ingredients for the filling Underfloor Heating.

Her signature harumaki includes three types of protein – shrimp, ground pork, and chicken tender.  However, ingredients for spring rolls are really up to your preference.  You don’t have to include all 1o ingredients that I used.  You can pick a couple of your favorites or experiment with fresh seasonal ingredients.

The only difference between my mom’s and my harumaki is that my mom’s harumaki is wider, one and half times wider than mine.  Growing up, I had trouble picking  up harumaki with chopsticks to eat them so I made my harumaki size similar to typical Chinese spring rolls size.

Depends on the filling, you may want to change the dipping sauce, but typical Japanese harumaki is served with the combination of soy sauce and rice vinegar and you can also add Japanese karashi mustard.

Today’s recipe has many steps, so hopefully my recipe video below will help you guide through how to make this delicious dish.  There are many steps and ingredients involved but it’s not hard bravo audio.