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Vietnamese Rice Paper Rolls

Recipe submitted by crippsprincess

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Beautiful, Fresh salad, noodles, prawns, chicken or beef wrapped in rice paper with dipping sauce. A must for healthy eaters and food lovers. Easy to make suitable for lunches, party entrees/appetisers, kids and vegetarians.

Ingredients

lettuce 4 x leaves
Vermicelli noodles 1 x packet
Bean shoots 1 x handful
cucumber x 1
prawns/cooked chicken (half bird)/beef strips (any of the three, or you can mix them up and have a variety) if vegetarian obviously disregard this ingredient
tomatoes (optional) x 1
Coriander (optional) x 1 bunch
rice paper x 1 packet
Dipping sauce
Hoisin/soya sauce/sweet chilli (either is fine)
If with hoisin (optional) crush unsalted peanuts and add to sauce

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Method

Prepare vegetables, wash lettuce cut into strips, wash slice cucumber into long thin strips, wash shoots, slice tomatoe, wash coriander, set aside.
Boil Vermicelli, rinse & set aside
Can buy ready cooked prawns; peel and de-vain, slice down the middle, set aside
Can buy a ready cooked chook and rip into shreds, or cut chicken into strips, marinade with oyster sauce, soya sauce, garlic, honey, salt & pepper. Quickly fry for a few minutes and set aside. Can follow same method if prefer beef, fry with butter rather than oil
Boil full kettle of water, pour into large bowl, dip one rice paper into water so is wet all over and place rice paper flat onto plate
at one end put cucumber, lettuce, tomatoe, shoots, coriander, noodles and meat of choice, roll over once, fold in edges and roll remaining til rice paper roll forms a cylinder shape.
enjoy with your dipping sauce of choice.
there you have your first rice paper roll. mix it up with the veges/salad add any other favourite veges you may like, can add more than one meat aswell. great for entrees and starters, even for lunch.

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Notes & Tips

can be prepared earlier and rested in fridge, will need to come to room temperature before serving. approx 15-20mins and keep in air-tight container or glad wrapped. make sure rice paper is completely wet before making roll

Recipe Rating

Preparation Time: 30M

Cooking Time: 20M

What do you think?

Konstant March 2011

I do love these and never quite been game enough to try make them for my self, thanks for sharing a great recipe:)

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- crippsprincess March 2011
  
  its really easy to make. the preparation is a bit tedious. i hope u do try them they are beautiful :)
  
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