Macgyver Egg Roll Wrappers

Q. What happens after surfing through food web sites featuring food from Singapore?

A. You become instantly hungry for egg rolls

Q. What do you do if there are no egg roll wrappers at home?

A. You make them from scratch of course- assuming your arms are in need of MEGA exercise or you want an all-natural meal AND you have lots of time in your hands. Or you could be like me and not realize that walking 25 min to the closest Panda, buying egg roll wrappers and walking back another 25 min would have required less time than actually making them myself

For those of you who have Macgyver tendencies, the deceptively simple recipe is given below.

Macgyver Egg Roll Wrappers

• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup cold water
• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 tsp salt

1. Beat egg and water together
2. Mix flour and salt in medium bowl
3. Make a well in the center and add the egg/water mixture. Combine until a dough forms
4. Knead for a few minutes. Cover with damp cloth and leave to rest for 10 min.
5. Cut dough into 4 pieces using a sharp knife. Cut each quarter into 4 pieces- 16 pieces total. You can also make this into 24 wontons. Work with one piece at a time, keeping the rest covered with a damp cloth/paper towel.
6. Roll out each piece into a 4.5"x4.5" square, on a lightly floured surface (or a cold marble surface) with a lightly floured rolling pin. This is the HARD part. This is a stiff dough and ends up being great upper arm exercise. You need to roll it out quite thin. (Rolling out one big ball of dough and then cutting into squares ends up needing more effort than individually shaping each little piece- believe me, I tried that).
7. As for shaping into squares, remember you cut the dough in the previous steps? The dough pieces should already be in a roughly square shape- just roll them out that way. You can shape them a little using your hands and tuck away the general ugliness when you wrap the egg rolls.
8. Add the filling, wrap and lightly dust with flour or cornstarch as you stack them so they do not stick together. Use in any recipe that calls for egg roll wrappers.