Baked Kale Lumpia!

This was an experiment that worked out! And the possibilities are endless for different filling combinations. Next time, we might used glass noodles, chopped peanuts, chicken, etc. We might halve the amount of kale and double the amount of pork, etc. Have fun with this!

Ingredients:

1/4 cup chopped green onions

4 cups chiffonaded curly kale

2 tbsp vegetable oil

2 garlic cloves, minced

1 inch ginger nub, minced

1/3 cup shredded carrots

1/4 cup ground pork

1/3 cup chopped onion

2 tbsp shoyu

8 lumpia wrappers

Pam spray

Salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.

In a medium saucepan, pour in 1 tbsp vegetable oil. Sweat the garlic and ginger until fragrant. Add in the onions and stir until translucent. Add in pork and break in and stir until cooked. Add in green onion and shredded carrot. Mix well and season with salt and pepper and 1 tbsp shoyu. Set pork mixture aside.

Wipe out saucepan. Pour in 1 tbsp vegetable oil. Wilt in the 4 cups of chiffonaded kale. This should take about 5-10 minutes. The kale will reduce in volume to about 1 1/2 cups. Season with 1 tbsp shoyu.

Pour pork mixture into kale in the saucepan and mix well. This is the filling mixture. Set aside to cool. Feel free to experiment with different ingredients in different proportions.

While you wait for the filling to cool down, cover a cookie sheet with foil and spray Pam all over the sheet.

Peel off one lumpia wrapper at a time. Place the lumpia wrapper-- oriented like a diamond-- on the table in front of you. Imagine a line dividing the lumpia wrapper in half horizontally. Place 2 tbsp of cooled filling centered a little below this dividing line. Pull up the bottom corner over the filling, fold in the left and right corners, and roll the lumpia up.

Place the filled lumpia on the foil-lined cookie sheet and Pam-spray them liberally on both sides.

Bake in the oven for 20 minutes, flipping halfway through.

The lumpia will be crispy and relatively lower in fat than if fried in oil. Serve with dipping sauce (we are classy mofos and used our extra Jack in the Box sweet and sour sauce).