Fresh Summer Rolls

Fresh and tasty, can use a huge range of fillings. Be creative, add anything you would like. Use this page more as inspiration rather than a protocol to follow 🙂

• Large rice paper spring roll dried wrappers
• Fillings
  • Veggies
    • Carrot
    • Bell pepper
    • Scallion
    • Avocado
    • Lettuce
    • Bean sprouts
    • Cucumbers
    • Purple cabbage
    • Jalapeno, Thai, or Serrano chilies
  • Herbs
    • Mint
    • Cilantro
  • Starches
    • Noodles
    • Rice
  • Protein
    • Shrimp
• Sauces
  • Peanut Sauce:
    • 1/4 C peanut butter
    • 1 T hoisin sauce
    • 2 t soy sauce
    • 1 clove garlic
    • 1 t sriracha
    • 1-2T warm water
  • Vinegar fish sauce
    • 1 T rice vinegar
    • 1 T fish sauce
    • 1/4 C water
    • dash sugar
    • 1 clove garlic
  • Sriracha Mayo
    • 1/2 C mayo
    • Sriracha to taste
    • 1 clove garlic
    • 1 T soy sauce

 

1. If you will be adding noodles, rice, or shrimp cook these first.
2. Julienne all veggies. (Most of the work in this recipe is spent chopping veggies!)
   1. For some of the more crunchy veggies you may want to blanch them so they are a little easier to eat. I like to do this with carrots and bell peppers
3. Make sauces
4. In preparation for creating the rolls, fill a large bowl with hot water. And put a damp towel down on the counter, you will make the rolls on this.
5. Make the rolls
   1. Submerge the rice paper in the hot water and waiting until the paper is soft and ready to roll (depending on how hot the water is, it takes 10-30seconds to get the paper totally pliable)
   2. Take the paper out of the water, place on a damp towel, fill and roll up. The rice paper always is more elastic than I think, so definitely try to stretch the paper over your ingredients.
   3. I find it useful to put something identified down first, then your starch, then all the other ingredients. This can help you make a few versions. Whatever you lay down first will be on top so this helps identify which roll has which ingredients.
6. Make sauces and serve!