FRESH VIETNAMESE SPRING ROLLS
These fresh Vietnamese spring rolls are made with shrimp, vegetables, herbs, and rice noodles wrapped in rice paper. Below, I have listed dipping sauce options. Traditionally, the spring rolls are served with nước chấm, a fish sauce-based dipping sauce. I've found that they taste good with peanut sauce too. The spring rolls are best consumed the day they are made.
Provided by Lisa Lin
Categories Appetizers
Time 50m
Number Of Ingredients 21
Steps:
- Pick your dipping sauce of choice above and mix all the sauce ingredients together. Make sure to use warm water for the nuoc cham so that the sugar dissolves more easily.
- Taste the sauce and adjust the seasonings as necessary.
- I like to prepare the sauce before making the spring rolls so that the flavors have a longer time to develop.
- Fill a medium saucepan or small pot with water and bring it to boil on high heat (see note 6).
- Once the water boils, add the shrimp and cook for 2 minutes. Remove the shrimp from the water and let them cool for 5 minutes. Peel the shells from the shrimp.
- Lay a shrimp on its side on a chopping board. Gently press the shrimp down with one hand and use the other to slice the shrimp in half, horizontally (knife parallel to the chopping board). Repeat with the remaining shrimp.
- Fill a large saucepan or small pot with water and bring it to boil on high heat.
- Turn off the heat. Let the noodles sit in the hot water for about 5 to 8 minutes. Double check the package directions to see how long they should sit in hot water as the cooking time varies across different brands.
- Once the noodles have softened, drain and rinse the noodles under cold water. I like cutting the noodles with kitchen scissors several times so they are shorter and easier to grab.
- Fill a large bowl with lukewarm water to wet the rice paper sheets.
- Transfer all the vegetables, shrimp, herbs, and noodles into bowls and arrange them on your work top.
- Get a chopping board ready. Dip your hand in the water and brush water over the surface of the chopping board so that it is damp. I usually wet the surface again after every 2 spring rolls. Alternatively, lay a damp paper towel over your work surface.
- Quickly dip a sheet of rice paper in the lukewarm water to moisten the entire surface. This should take no longer than a few seconds.
- Lay the wet rice paper on your work surface. Place a piece of butter lettuce close to the bottom edge of the rice paper. Arrange a small pinch each of rice noodles, carrots, cucumber, red bell pepper, and mint leaves over the center of the lettuce leaf (see note 7).
- Arrange 3 pieces of shrimp about 1 1/2 to 2 inches below the top edge of the rice paper. Make sure that the orange/pink side is facing down.
- Grab the lower edge of the rice paper and lettuce and start rolling up the spring roll. Once you have reached the shrimp, fold in the left and right sides. Finish rolling up the spring roll all the way to the end.
- Repeat the rolling process with the rest of the ingredients. If the chopping board is looking dry, brush some water over the board.
- Serve the spring rolls with the dipping sauce.
Nutrition Facts : ServingSize 1 spring roll (without sauce), Calories 90 kcal, Carbohydrate 8.6 g, Protein 6.7 g, Fat 0.3 g, SaturatedFat 0.1 g, Cholesterol 45.6 mg, Sodium 129.3 mg, Fiber 1.2 g, Sugar 1.5 g
VIETNAMESE PEANUT SAUCE - DIPPING SAUCE FOR FRESH SPRING ROLLS
I haven't tried this, but it's supposed to be a great dipping sauce for Vietnamese-style fresh spring rolls. I found it on the Kitchen Chick blog, and it is apparently adapted from "Foods of Vietnam" by Nicole Routhier. If you are gluten-free you can find gluten-free hoisin sauces made by brands such as Kame or Premier Japan.
Provided by Whats Cooking
Categories Sauces
Time 15m
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Heat the oil and add the garlic, chili paste, and tomato paste.
- Fry until garlic is golden brown.
- Add the broth, sugar, peanut butter, and hoisin sauce, and whisk to dissolve the peanut butter.
- Bring to a boil.
- Reduce the heat and simmer for 3 minutes.
- Garnish with the ground peanuts.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 141.3, Fat 10.2, SaturatedFat 1.7, Cholesterol 0.3, Sodium 378.4, Carbohydrate 9.7, Fiber 1.6, Sugar 5, Protein 4.6
DIPPING SAUCE FOR VIETNAMESE SPRING ROLLS (SAUCE ONLY)
I LOVE soft spring rolls. So healthy and refreshing. The recipe that I use faithfully (in my appetizer cookbook) has a sauce that is ok, but I never LOVED the sauce like I love the rolls. I think the rice wine vinegar is too prevelant. I stumbled across this sauce recipe in Cooking Light and think the addition of the sesame oil is going to balance the vinegar out beautifully. Can't wait to try it!
Provided by Lakerdog2
Categories Sauces
Time 5m
Yield 1 1/2 tbsps, 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Combine all ingredients in a bowl and wisk.
- Serve with soft spring/summer rolls!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 16, Fat 1.1, SaturatedFat 0.2, Sodium 290.8, Carbohydrate 1.6, Sugar 1.6
VIETNAMESE SPRING ROLLS WITH DIPPING SAUCE
These Vietnamese spring rolls are the perfect recipe for beating the heat. Poached shrimp, rice noodles, herbs, and lettuce are rolled into a thin rice wrapper. Serve with the sweet and sour dipping sauce.
Provided by Allrecipes
Categories Appetizers and Snacks Wraps and Rolls
Time 1h25m
Yield 4
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Whisk vinegar, fish sauce, sugar, lime juice, garlic, and red pepper flakes together in a small bowl. Set the dipping sauce aside.
- Fill a large bowl with room temperature water. Add rice vermicelli and soak for 1 hour.
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Drop in shrimp and cook until curled and pink, about 1 minute. Remove the shrimp and drain. Slice each shrimp in half lengthwise. Transfer rice vermicelli noodles to the pot of boiling water and cook for 1 minute. Remove and drain in a colander. Immediately rinse the vermicelli with cold water, stirring to separate the noodles.
- To assemble the rolls, dip 1 rice wrapper in a large bowl of room temperature water for a few seconds to soften. Place wrapper on a work surface and top with 4 shrimp halves, 1/4 of the chopped lettuce, 1/2 ounce vermicelli, and 1/4 each of the mint, cilantro, and Thai basil. Fold right and left edges of the wrapper over the ends of the filling and roll up the spring roll. Repeat with remaining wrappers and ingredients. Cut each roll in half and serve with dipping sauce.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 137.2 calories, Carbohydrate 22.5 g, Cholesterol 63.9 mg, Fat 0.7 g, Fiber 0.7 g, Protein 10.1 g, SaturatedFat 0.2 g, Sodium 1170.4 mg, Sugar 7.4 g
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