- Hello and welcome to Mashables Air Friday.
I am culture reporter, Tim Marcin.
On Air Friday, we air fried just about anything
and everything in the name of deliciousness.
There's only one thing we could really air fry this week
being the follow up to Thanksgiving weekend
we're air frying leftovers.
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We are doing Thanksgiving leftover egg rolls.
I made these last year in a deep fryer,
but this year we're going to try it in an air fryer.
So we're going to take some egg roll wrappers,
some turkey stuffing, mashed potatoes,
wrap it up in an egg roll, fold it up,
and see how it turns out in the air fryer.
So the recipe I'm working off of is a Kroger
like the grocery store TikTok.
What they say to do first
is you're going to take your turkey,
which I have here in a leftover bin.
This is actually made by me,
so just real rough chop,
no need to be scientific with it.
Now the Kroger recipe then took this turkey
and some stuffing, mix it up in a bowl,
wrapped it up, air fried it.
And I'm going to do another
where I mix in some mashed potatoes,
because I love mashed potatoes
and I want to see what it turns out like in an air fryer
in the egg roll.
So we're going to do one of each,
so I'm going to split my stuffing right in half
in each bowl.
We're going to take this turkey mixed it up half and half,
right in each one.
Now my biggest fear in this
is I am not an expert egg roll wrapper,
but we're going to do the best we can.
So I've got first up, we're going to do the one
that just has stuffing and turkey.
The way they do it in the TikTok is
you take a big heaping helping of it.
Stick with the spirit of Thanksgiving,
you know, overstuff it,
you put it right in the center.
And what they do here, which is tough
is you fold it over and then kind of pinch,
so it sticks in, give it a little roll,
try to keep everything as tight as possible.
A little bit of water,
so you kind of want to paint the edges
of the triangle at the end here with water
and hopefully that should stick.
In the Air Fryer, I'm going to do that side down first
kind of the open-end of the envelope.
So hopefully that'll air fry on the way down, facing down,
and kind of stick together.
Now for the next one, you can kind of do whatever you want.
If you wanted to throw some gravy inside of it, that's fine.
I'm going to dip in gravy.
All right, so again, we're going to fold it.
Hopefully that sticks.
The Kroger recipe says to air fry at 370 degrees
for eight minutes on one side,
and then three minutes on the other, so 11 minutes total.
Our air fry in the office either does 360 or 390,
so we're going to go with 360 is the closest we got.
We're going to do eight minutes on one side,
three minutes on the other maybe add an extra minute or two,
since we're air frying at 10 degrees lower.
I'm going to start here, give it a good spray,
so nothing sticks.
And then from there, we're just preheating.
I'm going to do 13 minutes.
I'm just going to preheat and go, so take the egg rolls
and drop them with this envelope side down.
We've got about 12 minutes of cook time.
And we've got four minutes left,
we'll flip them and hopefully they come out great.
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All right, so we've been going for about eight minutes
on the one side, I'm going to flip it,
and here's what they look like now.
Let's try to gently flip them to the other side,
watch your fingers.
So we might need an extra couple of minutes
to fully cook the egg roll wrapper.
I don't think you're ever going to get
the kind of crispy bubbliness
that you would get from a deep fryer,
but you do want it to make sure
that you cook it all the way through,
because the last thing you want is raw dough
when you're eating your Thanksgiving leftovers.
So I might give it an extra minute or two
just to make sure it's fully cooked
and there's no raw bits of the egg roll wrapper.
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I've been air frying my egg rolls for 12 minutes total now
a minute extra because we were air frying
at a lower temperature
due to the settings on this air fryer.
I'm going to pull it out, and see what we got.
Now they're pretty brown in some spots.
The dough is still a little white in others
in the recipe I'm working off of,
there is a little bit more browning.
So I might give it another minute or two
just to make sure I'm getting things as crispy as possible.
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The egg rolls have been frying for about 14 minutes or so.
They look way more done if you look nice and brown,
for the most part, all the way around on our two egg rolls.
Now, if you're just eating at home,
what you can do is just take these suckers,
take a little gravy, dip right in, have a good time.
Because we're on camera here,
I'm going to give you a cross section.
So cut right through,
you can kind of see, it looks pretty good.
A little crumbly, not too bad.
Nice and crispy.
Here's the one that just has stuffing.
I'm going to dip it in some gravy.
Again, leftover from my Thanksgiving.
It's pretty good, it's real, real crispy.
It's not deep fried
so you're not getting that kind of light bubbly texture
that you might get from a deep fried egg roll,
but it's nice and crispy on the outside.
The leftovers are fully heated up on the inside.
I mean not a bad way to heat Thanksgiving leftovers.
And now I'll just try real quick
the one that has mashed potatoes.
I think I'm going to like this better
because most things are better when you add mashed potatoes.
I probably should've let that cool down first a little bit.
The mashed potatoes are molten, so learn from me,
don't burn the roof of your mouth, but really good.
I think adding the mashed potatoes
adds a little bit of moisture,
whereas turkey and stuffing inside of an air fried egg roll
is a little bit more dry.
But no matter what I recommend this recipe.
Nice and crispy.
Good way to use your leftovers, kind of fun,
and yeah, be a good time.
So 10 out of 10, try it.
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