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These homemade cheese spring rolls are loaded with crab and creamy cheese and deep fried for extra crispiness. A great bite sized party snack or seafood appetizer.

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Lately we have been craving something crispy, savoury, and cheesy. Then a thought popped into my head. Cheese wontons! You know the kind you get at sushi restaurants? but I wanted more than just cheese tonight.

“How about some crab meat!?” Terry bellows.

Terry is a crab meat enthusiast. Not real crab meat, but crab sticks. You know those bright red and white imitation crab meat? The ones that are actually made with fish? and don’t have a single piece of crab meat in it? Yea those things. If he could eat it in a bowl with a spoon everyday for a year, I’m pretty sure he would.

Normally I’d be making all kinds of gross noises and making fun of him for eating that, but secretly it is my guilty pleasure as well — so I went along with it.

INGREDIENTS

For this homemade crab and cheese spring roll recipe, all the ingredients can all be found at your local grocery store.

You may have some trouble finding the spring roll paper (I know I did), but grocery stores almost always have it, they just hide it well in the fridges/freezers.

You can substitute white vinegar with the rice vinegar if you don’t have it but white vinegar has a much stronger tang, so add a pinch of sugar to tone that down.

LET’S ROLL!

Chop up the crab, grate the mozzarella and finely dice the garlic and green onion and combine all the ingredients together. I like to hand shred the crab meat so they are in long stringy form, for more texture.

Tip #1 : Leave the cream cheese in room temperature an hour before making this. This makes the cheese softer and easier to mix all the ingredients in evenly.

Homemade Cheesy Crab Spring Rolls — Wrapping spring rolls don’t need to be complicated, take it a step at a time 🙂

When you are working with the spring roll papers, make sure they are covered with a damp cloth, or they will dry out. I find that pre-peeling a few at ahead of time makes the rolling flow a bit easier and faster.

Same goes with the wrapped homemade spring rolls, if you don’t plan to fry them right away, cover them with a damp cloth or paper towel to keep it from drying out.

To seal the homemade spring rolls you can use water, but not all spring roll papers are created equally so if you are finding that they are not staying sealed then you can also use an egg to seal it as well.

Deep fry them on 350F (176C) or medium heat if you are using the stove top for about 4-5 minutes or until golden brown.

DIPPY DIP DIP?

These homemade crab and cheese spring rolls go fantastic with seafood sauce, sounds wierd but it works! Something to do with the crab meat being seafood! 😉

We also had these with sweet thai chilli sauce and the slightly spicy sweet sauce accompanied the cheesiness like magic!

I need more snack ideas like these homemade crab and cheese spring rolls for dinner! Let me know what you make or eat when you’re feeling like it’s going to be a snacky lunch/dinner type of day! and tag us with #pupswithchopsticks if you make this! We love hearing from you!

Bet you can’t just have one!