Another Award and Chicken & Cream Cheese Egg Rolls

Last Saturday, which was my blog's 4th Monthsary, was a lucky day for me. Finally, I got my Red Gold Cookbook which was the raffle prize I won when I joined A Latte with OTT,A's March Iron Challenge. I've waited for almost a month to get it...the first one OTT,A sent got lost in the mail...and the 2nd one took two weeks to get here...so pardon me if I seem so excited! I'm just happy to have another addition to my cookbooks! :)


I also got a message from one of my favorite bloggers, Elisabeth of Food and Thrift Finds that she has another award for me --- The Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award! She's so sweet to be thinking of me and once again choosing me for an award. Thanks so much Elisabeth!

I'm so glad that in my four months of blogging, I've found people who despite of our differences in culture, language, traditions, and tastes, have been so nice and supportive of me...people who I can consider my blogosphere sisters. I really do appreciate how much they've all made me felt so welcome since my early blogging days. With all their frequent visits to Pinay In Texas Cooking Corner and all their kind words, I feel I belong, and I'm so glad to be sharing this Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award with them:


Chris of Gourmet Fashion
Eizel of Eizel's Everything Cullinary
Kankana of Sunshine & Smile
Katerina of Cullinary Flavors
Lin-Ann of Vittles and Commitals
Lu of Cusina Di Casa Da Lu
Manu of Manu's Menu
Nava of Nava-K
Sarah of Homestyle Cooking Around The World
Sharlot of E-Sharlot

♥♥♥ Thank you ladies for all the love and support you never fail to give me! ♥♥♥

About a month ago, Miriam of Meatless Meals for Meat Eaters featured a recipe which caught my attention --- Cream Cheese Egg Rolls. Egg rolls are my family's favorite and I always make them! I've already posted two Egg Rolls recipes here: the Filipino Egg Rolls (Lumpiang Shanghai) and Vietnamese Egg Rolls. I've also done cheddar cheese egg rolls in the past...but cream cheese in my egg rolls is something I haven't tried. I wanted to try it...but I knew that there's no way I can make my husband eat plain cream cheese egg rolls! So I decided to add chicken and vegetables in the recipe. I made Chicken and Cream Cheese Egg Rolls instead! My goodness...it turned out awesomely delicious! Thanks to Meriam for the idea of using cream cheese on egg rolls! The cream cheese and yellow onions plus the celery taste so good together...and combining it with chicken and carrots make it perfect!

Crispy on the outside and so creamy in the inside! Definitely a must try!

* I'm linking this up on Melt in Your Mouth Monday, Mangia Mondays, Hearth and Soul Hop Hub, Delectable Tuesday, Tuesdays At The Table and Made From Scratch Tuesday.

Prep Time:~30 mins              Cook Time:~10 mins              Yield: 22 pieces                   

Ingredients:
  • Spring Roll Wrapper (150mm x 150mm)
  • Vegetable oil for frying
Filling:
  • 1 ½ cup chicken breast (sprinkled with salt & pepper, cooked and flaked)
  • 12 oz cream cheese (1 ½ packs)
  • ½ cup celery, chopped
  • ½ cup carrot, julliened
  • ½ cup yellow onion, minced
  • 2 Tbsp garlic, minced
  • ½ tsp kosher salt
  • 1/8 tsp black pepper


    Procedure:
    1. In a bowl, mix together all the filling ingredients.


    2. Lay out a wrapper. Place 2 Tbsp mixture on the lower edge of the wrapper leaving about 2 inches. Begin to fold egg roll like an envelope: first, fold over the lower edge over the filing, then the left edge, then the right edge, then roll up to the top edge. To seal the wrapper just moisten the top edge with water. Repeat this process until you are out of mixture. Lay each egg roll out in a single layer.

      

      

    3. Put enough oil in a large skillet to fill it about ¼ inch deep. Heat oil over medium heat. Place egg roll one at a time into hot oil, with the seam down (this will keep it from unraveling) and then quickly turn the egg roll to ensure the skin crisp up and does not stick to other egg rolls in the pan. Adjust heat so that the oil is bubbling gently and not too vigorously around the egg rolls. Each egg roll will take about 3 minutes to cook. Shake the egg roll over the pan to help remove the excess oil. Place egg roll on layers of paper towels to drain.



    4. Serve warm!


    27 comments:

    1. Tina, Congratulations on another well deserved award! Have a great week.

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    2. Thank you for the kind mention, Tina. I'm so glad you passed the award on to all those incredible blogger, which some I follow, as well. They are all so talented too!
      I had to mention to you personally about the award, Blogger did not give me back the list I had for the Sisterhood award, but at least I remembered you were on the list:D

      Another winning recipe...so tempting and delicious. I'm totally addicted to all the yummy things you make. Love the chicken and cream cheese filling. Now, if I can only find the Spring Home brand spring roll pastries:-(

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    3. Tina, happy monthsary! congrats on the awards! and another great recipe! wow...you're busy ;)

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    4. Congrats, these sound delicious! Thanks for visiting GRACE and Me & GRACE @ Home. I a new follower now.

      Amy

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    5. Congrats on the award! Those egg rolls are calling my name..got to make it again and soon!:))

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    6. These cream cheese egg rolls look fabulous! Adding the chicken is a great for the meat lovers out there. Congrats on your award!

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    7. Hi Tina! Congrats on your award! I love Elizabeth's blog too, and I should go check the links you mentioned as well. Cream cheese in egg rolls definitely caught my attention! You have the Filipino egg rolls recipe?! Nice, I love those and I have to check it out after writing this. I'm a little bit behind in reading your recent posts here. You have been working hard and it's my time to catch up. :-)

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    8. congrats on your awards, this chicken and cream cheese egg rolls sounds awesome crispy and delicious.

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    9. I love egg rolls. This sounds so good, I'm sure I'll try it some time. I've never made egg rolls before. I love new challenges.

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    10. Thanks for the award.. yippeee

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    11. Congrats - you certainly deserve this award :-). And what a great idea to use the springroll wrapper with cream cheese :-). Love that and will certainly try it!

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    12. congrats on your award! i love the creativity! western and asian combination of flavours(:

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    13. Hi Tina! Congrats on your award & winning of the cookbook! Happy for you & glad that you share all the happiness with us! :D
      I must try this Chicken & Cheese Egg Rolls! I love spring rolls (chinese egg rolls with turnip, carrots etc...)

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    14. Congrats on the award and thanks for sharing it with me :) I just bought some spring roll wrappers for the first time and surely gonna try this !!

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    15. Congratulations Tina: all well deserved! I truly love your blog and you are doing a fantastic job with it! Thank you sooo much for passing it along to me! <3 It is an honor! These chicken and cream cheese rolls look deliciously tempting! :-)

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    16. Awesome award Tina, you deserve it for your great cooking skills.

      Love the rolls - for us its called popiah goreng.

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    17. Hi Tina! Thanks so much for sharing the Sisterhood of the World Award with me. You said it perfectly how wonderfully we all share and support each other, even being very different bloggers from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and countries. I'll talk about the award on my blog soon.

      Great recipe! That filling . . . mmmm . . . I can almost taste it! And how do you manage to do it all! I think I've linked with another blog once. I've got to look into linking more often and join in the fun!

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    18. These rolls immediately caught my attention as well. They look fanntastic and very tasty. Thank you so much for the award, I am putting it in my next post!

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    19. Congrats on your award. Those egg rolls look so yummy!

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    20. Congrats on the award! You deserve every one plus more- you definitely put so much into your blog and it shows. Thanks so much for sharing your award with me! I love this recipe- will be trying it soon!

      http://homestyleworldcook.blogspot.com

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    21. Tina, congratulations on receiving this award - you truly deserve it and thank you so much for passing it on, you are an incredible lady!
      Now lets not forget these wonderful looking and no doubt tasting Chicken and cream cheese egg rolls. I think I have no more excuses not to try to make my own egg rolls - I will definitely try this out.

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    22. Thanks everyone for the kind words! All I know is, I won't be here if not for all of my blog friends like you who keep on inspiring me! :-*

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    23. So many awards and its only 4 months? Amazing. You have interesting recipes

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    24. Congratulations on another award, Tina. Love this spring roll. There's a cream cheese mad young lady (and an old woman) in the house who'll love this so must make this soon.

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    25. Just dropped by once again to say Thanks for sharing this with hearth and soul hop :)

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    26. Hi again! I'm working on my award post today. I'm hoping to complete it later. Thanks again, Tina!!! Have a great weekend.

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    27. These look great, Tina! I can't believe you've only been blogging for 4 months! You have a great blog! :)

      Thanks for linking up to Melt in Your Mouth Monday!

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