Great Appetizer for any occassion
Vietnamese Spring roll or summer roll is a traditional Vietnamese food which is wrapped in rice paper. Like most of Vietnamese food, spring roll (goi cuon) is a very healthy diet which all ingredients are made fresh from pork(grilled or boiled), shrimp, or grilled beef, rice vermicelli, and vegetable. Spring roll is served cold, with either a simple sauce consisting of Hoisin sauce, garlic, peanut butter, and water or a combination of fish sauce, garlic, sugar, lime, and carrot.
Alot of people can't distinguish between Spring Roll and Egg Roll...it's not the same. Egg roll is usually fried while spring rolls is made fresh. Well ... today, I'm going to show you how to make Vietnamese Spring Rolls.
INGREDIENTS
First off, you may need to make a trip to an Asian market nearby for some ingredients like rice paper, rice vermicelli, and Chirashi chilli garlic sauce
You can buy any kind of rice vermicelli at the oriental store, just tell them you're making spring rolls
Total Time: 30 minutes
_Servings: 6 rolls for 2 peopleFor the Spring Rolls
6 sheets rice paper
2 large leaves of green lettuce, cut into small pieces
3 ounces rice vermicelli, cooked
1/2 cup cilantro, chopped
12 mint leaves
9 large shrimps, cooked, peeled, deveined and cut in halfs
(Be creative, you can add more protein to your diet by using boiled pork, crab, or any other meat you have in mind)
For the Dipping Sauce
1 tablespoons fish sauce
3 tablespoons warm water
1 1/2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
3/4 clove garlic, minced
1 1/4 tablespoons white sugar
1/3 teaspoon garlic chili sauce (Chirashi)
2 3/4 tablespoons hoisin sauce
1 teaspoon finely chopped peanuts
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DIRECTIONS
- Bring the water to boil. Boil rice vermicelli 3 to 5 minutes, or until al dente, and drain.
- Dip the rice paper in a large bow of warm water so it will become soft
- Place the rice paper on a flat area, then stack small amount of lettuce, rice noddles, cilantro, mint leaves, and 3 haft shrimps
- Roll the rice paper
- In a small bow, mix the fish sauce, water, lime juice, garlic, sugar and chili sauce together. Another bow, mix hoisin sauce, peanuts, and chilli sauce. Serve the rolls with these two sauce.
- Good luck and have fun while cooking
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- Themiscorkscrew Themiscorkscrew Dec 10, 2009 @ 9:16 pm
- yum what a delicious lens! I love vietnamese food and love spring rolls
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- completedietinfo completedietinfo Mar 27, 2009 @ 8:11 pm
- Hey nice recipe lens you got here!..Very healthy and really useful..Just reading it makes me hungry.;). I'll recommend this to others. I also have a similar resource site - diet recipes at http://wwww.completedietinfo.com.. I'd appreciate if you can give it a visit. Let's spread the word!
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- free2rock free2rock Dec 14, 2008 @ 3:15 am
- Thank you for the comments guys, hope you enjoy. Btw, you know that you can substitute those ingredients with others like beef, fish... Don't afraid to try new things.
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- free2rock free2rock Nov 27, 2008 @ 1:46 pm
- Enjoy this Vietnamese Spring Roll Recipe with your family
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- aj2008 aj2008 Nov 27, 2008 @ 6:36 am
- As someone who has to avoid wheat, this is a great recipe. Nice lens.
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- mosdiva mosdiva Oct 12, 2008 @ 8:04 am
- I LOVE spring rolls!
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