Vietnamese Spring Rolls is the healthy dish with a mixture of assorted vegetables wrapped and rolled in thin rice papers, non fried version.
You can indulge in this dish as a great snacks as part of the family diet. You won't realised that you are actually eating more vegetables in a much healthy way.
This is simple, light & full of nutritions. And have fun by letting your family/kids/guest to roll it themselves rather than wrapping it all by yourself. Trust me, definitely they will be more enjoyable & having a more satisfying meal.
You can make extra ingredients and chill it in the fridge & make it anytime you like. Even the sauce can be chilled as well in the air-tight container.
This spring roll rice paper is available at all major supermarkets.
Ingredients : (serves 4)
Vietnamese Rice Paper
10 medium size shrimp - blanched with shell, deveined & cut into half lengthwise
100g Rice Vermicelli (meehoon) - cooked
Lettuce - rinse & pluck into smaller piece
1/2 medium size Carrot - shredded
1 small Cucumber - shredded (without seed)
Dipping Sauce :
120ml Water
6 tbsp Sugar
9 tsp Fish Sauce
1 tbsp Rice Vinegar
1 tbsp Lime Juice
1/2 Red Chillies - thinly sliced
1 clove Garlic - finely minced
To prepare the shrimp:
Immerse clean whole shrimp into boiling water for about 1-2 minutes until shrimp fully cooked. Remove shrimp from heat, allow to cool. Remove the shell & head, deveined & cut into half lengthwise.
To prepare Dipping Sauce :
1. Dissolves sugar in 120ml water by cooking on low heat.
2. Stir till sugar melts. Add fish, rice vinegar & lime juice. Bring to a boil.
3. Add in garlic & red chillies. Remove & set aside to cool down.
To prepare the rolls :
1. Prepare a shallow plate filled with warm water. Quickly wet the rice paper with warm water by dipping the whole piece of rice paper into the water & remove.Just a few seconds. The rice paper will still be hard at the moment.
2. Place rice paper on a clean plate/board suitable for rolling. At this moment, rice paper will slowly turn into transparent.
3. Lay all the ingredients on the rice paper & roll it. Putting lettuce first, followed by cucumber, carrot & noodles.
4. Fold in each of the 2 ends and roll until you have about 1/3 of the rice paper left, lay few pieces of shrimp & then continue rolls.
5. Serve spring rolls with dipping sauce.