When it comes to cooking any meal, starters are the first thing that comes to mind. Here are Vietnamese Spring Rolls, made using rice paper, vermicelli noodles, and fresh veggies.
This entire dish takes less than 15 minutes and spring rolls are ready to be served. It is a healthy low-carb alternative, and looks totally colourful and yummy.
You can even eat the noodles as it is for your meal or make them into these easy spring rolls.
Recipe (makes 6 Spring Rolls)
Ingredients for Noodles:
Dry Vermicelli (sewai noodles) — 1 cup (approx)
Peanut Butter — 1.5 tablespoons
Soy Sauce — 3 tablespoons
Garlic, minced — 2 cloves
Chilli Flakes — 1 teaspoon
White sesame (optional) — 1 teaspoon
Honey — 1 teaspoon
Peanut/Sesame/Vegetable Oil — 1 teaspoon
Ingredients for Spring Rolls:
Carrot — 1 medium (sliced into thin strips)
Bell pepper — 1 medium, (sliced into thin strips)
Cabbage — ½ cup sliced, (we have used Red cabbage for colour but you can use normal cabbage as well, or any green leaves you have)
Rice Paper — 6 sheets, (if you don’t have rice paper, you can use crunchy lettuce leaves as wrappers, or just plain flour tortillas or rotis)
Take a vessel, add noodles, pour boiling water over the noodles and keep them submerged completely for 1-2 minutes, then drain the water out. This should give you enough time to cook the noodles.
Now take another vessel and mix all the other ingredients, peanut butter,soy sauce, garlic, chilli flakes, white sesame, Honey, oil together for the sauce and add noodles in it. Mix everything well. Serve with sesame and green onions or use for spring rolls.
Soak the sheet of rice paper in hot water for 20 seconds to soften it up, then place it over a surface like a chopping board or dish-towel. In a line, place 1 spoonful of cabbage, 2-3 carrot strips, 2-3 bell pepper strips, and one spoon of noodles on top. Place all these stuff on top of each other.
Fold the rice paper over the ingredients on one side, then fold that side in.
-Then tightly roll the wraps like you would do in a burrito. Make sure it’s not loose otherwise all the filling will keep falling out of it.
Serve immediately with soy sauce, these can also be made one day ahead.
Crispy, saucy, and tasty. They are simply delicious and full of colourful veggies. Save the recipe and share them with your friends and family.
