I’m kind restless and really can’t type much, so this will be your typical post with recipe. Haha
For the last pot luck, I made Vietnamese spring rolls as snacks. It’s my first time making it, although it really doesn’t require much cooking at all, there are still chances of screwing up. Like, tearing the paper rolls, or too big or too small rolls. HAving wrapped ‘poh piah’ before, rolling these Vietnamese spring rolls are not too difficult, except that you’d probably eat the first 2 yourselves cause it’s too ugly / loosely wrapped :/
Anyways, I got the recipe off Momofuku’s site. As usual, this is just a reference, I never follow cooking recipes to the dot cause I’m not too fussed up about using teaspoons and cups to measure. It’s more like, dump everything in and eye ball it. She has a step-by-step photo in rolling the spring rolls, so if u’ve never rolled any spring rolls / rice rolls, poh pia in your life before, this may be helpful.
Vietnamese Spring Rolls
PICKLED VEGETABLES
1/4 cup rice-wine vinegar
1/4 cup sugar
1 medium carrot, juliennedDIPPING SAUCE (I didn’t make this sauce, or rather it was incomplete cause some ingredients were missing; too late. long story)
2 tablespoons fish sauce
1/2 tablespoons finely chopped cilantro stems
2 tablespoons sugar
1 bird’s-eye chiles, minced
2 tablespoons soy sauceFILLING
1 pounds shrimp, cleaned and de-veined
2 tablespoons grapeseed oil
2 tablespoons soy sauce
Freshly ground black pepper
1 teaspoon sherry vinegar
1 garlic, chopped finelyrice vermicelli, soaked, blanched *optional*
1/2 cup cilantro, loosely packed, coarsely chopped
1/2 cup mint, loosely packed, coarsely chopped
1/4 cup basil, loosely packed, coarsely choppedVietnamese rice paper
waterMethod
1.Make picked vegetables. Heat rice wine vinegar with 1/2 cup water. Add sugar and stir till dissolved. Set aside to cool. Cover the carrots with the liquid and let it marinate overnight or a few hours in the refrigerator.
2. Make Sauce. Combine all ingredients together with 1/4 cup water. That’s it.
3. Make the filling. Heat pan with oil. Add garlic, and shrimps and toss till shrimp is cooked. Season it with soy sauce and pepper. Remove from heat, allow it to cure for 30 minutes before mixing it with the herbs. Soak rice vermicelli (try to get those thicker ones) till soft, then blanch it over boiling water.
4. Wrap. Using a water sprayer, spray water on the rice paper till it’s 3/4 softened. Place it on a plate. Take a bit of the filling, herbs, pickled carrots and vermicelli and put in the center of the paper. Less is more.
5. Fold the bottom flap (closest to you) so it covers part of the filling, then fold in the left and right flap. Then roll as tight as possible to form a spring roll. Repeat until you’ve finished with all the filling.
6. Serve with the dipping sauce.
Th?m Ngon ^^
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it look so nicely wrapped and full of fillings! so mouthwatering! (:
Love Vietnamese spring rolls. Can fill with anything and great for picnics and lunches.
Oh I love these rolls… I’m always tearing the paper though because I cram waaaay too much filling in. The one with the shrimp looks superb 😀
It’s lovely la babe! Your wrapping skill amazes me. Hehehe.. the first time i roll these ‘popiah’ at Vietnam, they were torn here and there and obviously, i got chased out of the kitchen not too long after! LOL!
oo, love Vietnamese spring rolls as its so delicious and healthy.
I can see lots of prawns in yours.. cannot wait to try this out and add in lots of prawns like you! 🙂
woh, very pro-ly wrapped =P
I love Vietnamese spring rolls, so fresh and with the dipping sauce, it’s always good!