Pork is the traditional filling, but lumpia can also be made with a combination of pork and shrimp, ground beef or chicken. If you have a food processor, use it to finely mince the vegetables.

The only things they had in common were that they were deep-fried, and the filling consisted of lots of vegetables and some pork. This recipe makes a lot of lumpia, but they freeze well.

Recipes for lumpia, pork dumplings ... The filling is a simple mix of ground pork seasoned with grated ginger, soy sauce and garlic chives, and it works best with slightly fatty meat.

Filipino food gets a bad rap, but I love many of the dishes: adobo, kinilaw, lumpia and even dinuguan ... so for this recipe, I use pork belly and add a couple of pig ears.