Chicken and vegetable spring roll with curry mayonnaise

Recipe by Norbert Neylon

INGREDIENTS

(Serves 4)

Two large chicken breasts

Eight sheets of spring roll pastry

Half a red pepper

One carrot

Half a red onion

150g of white of leek

40g fresh coriander

60g hoisin sauce

Salt and pepper

One egg

Olive oil

For the curry mayonnaise

100g of good quality mayonnaise

10g of curry paste

METHOD

Cook the chicken and allow to cool fully. Once cool, chop into small even pieces. Place in a large bowl and leave to one side.

Cut the red pepper, carrot, red onion and leek into thin strips. In a large frying pan, sauté the vegetables in a little olive oil until just slightly softened and allow to cool in a sieve so as to remove any excess liquid.

Once cool, add the vegetables to the chicken. Next add the chopped coriander and hoisin sauce, season with salt and pepper and mix well.

Place one sheet of spring roll pastry in a diamond shape, brush lightly with egg yolk and place another sheet on top.

Next take some of the chicken and vegetable mixture and place into a barrel shape on the pastry rolling from one corner of the diamond shape to the other.

Tuck in the corners as you approach the end and seal by brushing lightly with egg yolk.

To make the curry mayonnaise, gently fry the curry paste to extract the flavour. Once cool, add to the mayonnaise.

If the mayonnaise mixture is a little thick, add two or three tablespoons of hot water and mix well.

Heat your fryer to 180 degrees Celsius, fry the spring rolls until golden brown. Remove any excess oil season with salt and serve with the curry mayonnaise.

Top tip

These can be made a day or two in advance and make a really nice starter for a dinner party or a nice lunch.

ABOUT THE CHEF

Norbert Neylon is the chef proprietor of The Oak Room Restaurant in Cavan since 2001.

The Oak Room moved to a new purpose-built building in May of 2017 on Bridge Street in Cavan Town.

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