How to Make Slurry for an Egg Roll Recipe

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Leah Schaefer on behalf of Expert Village. Today we're going to learn how to make tye egg rolls. Now it's time to make what's called a slurry and basically a slurry is using cornstarch and water to form a little of a paste. Whenever you want to thicken something up, cornstarch is a great way to do that but we just don't want to ever add cornstarch directly to anything. So we want to take about one tablespoon of cornstarch and about two tablespoons of water and add it that way, that way we already have a nice mixture and the cornstarch isn't going to bunch up, it will be nice and smooth. Go ahead and add the two tablespoons of the water that we're going to use, we're going to dip our egg wrappers in this big bowl of water. So might as well let is serve a dull purpose, we'll just use this fork to start mixing it up and if it's too thick, we'll add a little bit more water. Basically you just want to take the fork and run it through it till you can't feel anymore lumps. What happens when you add the water is the cornstarch will tend to stitch the bottom so you're just going to want to tilt it and make sure that you get all the cornstarch incorporated. I know this looks really thin now but when we add it to the mixture; it's really going to help thicken things up. So I think we have incorporated all the cornstarch into the water. Now we're just going to add it to our food processor."