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lumpianada

Lumpianada is a combination of some of the most popular food here in the country. The name is a wordplay on both of these famous dishes which is–of course–the lumpiang shanghai, and the empanada. For starters, empanada is traditionally crescent-shaped, savory pastries which are then filled with a multitude of options of ingredients. Common ones may be chicken, pork, and beef but it can also be tuna, some other seafoods, or vegetables. They are then seasoned generously with spices and then fried. Now instead of wrapping these fine ingredients in a pastry, we are going to give this a different twist, and something a little easier to do. We are going to use ready-made lumpia wrappers. This is easier because we no longer have to do the process of making the dough for the pastry.

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