Dynamite/Chili Spring Rolls Recipe

Dynamite is one of the favorite street foods by students when I was still in college. It’s technically a green sili and a strip of cheese wrapped around a lumpia wrapper. One of the vendors around the campus said that it was called as such since the spiciness of the dynamite almost literally explodes into your mouth while the cheese gives it a tangy flavor which neutralizes it's taste.

By the way, I just read in some recipe books that lumpia in English is spring rolls. Sosyal diba?:)

Anyway, here's the recipe for Dynamite

Ingredients:

• Green Finger pepper (commonly known as Sili na pang sinigang)
• Quickmelt cheese strips
• Lumpia wrapper

Procedure:

1. Cut the green sili into halves, remove the seeds since it may become too spicy if not removed.

2. Position the green sili with a strip of cheese in the middle of the wrapper. One sili per wrapper. No overloading. You can also try including ground beef or bacon strips to make it more flavorful and less spicy. 

3. Wrap the cheese and the sili with the lumpia wrapper. It takes considerable skill to do this.

4. Fry in medium heat until the wrapper is golden brown or until you think it is already cooked, best served while still hot