Recipe: Perfect Vietnamese Spring Rolls

Vietnamese Spring Rolls. See how to make healthy spring rolls with shrimp. Footnotes Cook's Note: The fish sauce, rice vermicelli, chili garlic sauce, hoisin sauce, and rice wrappers can be found at Asian food markets. First things first, you are going to see my hands a lot in this post for Vietnamese Spring Rolls!

Drain on paper towels, and serve with Spring Roll Sauce (Nuoc Mam). Note: The spring rolls may be made ahead, and frozen, and then fried when thawed. Spring rolls may be kept in fridge until ready to fry too, up to a day or two in advance. You can cook Vietnamese Spring Rolls using 23 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Vietnamese Spring Rolls

1. It's of Rice vermicelli as needed, soaked in the hot water to soften.
2. It's 1 of avocado, slice 0.25 inch thickness.
3. You need 2 of hard boiled eggs, cut in 8 slices.
4. You need 1/2 of cucumber, peeled and seeded then cut in julienne.
5. Prepare 1 of carrot, peeled and cut in julienne.
6. You need of Lettuce, any kind will work or use mix green salad.
7. It's of Any herbs you like such as mint, thai basil, cilantro, etc (optional).
8. You need as needed of Cooked shrimp.
9. Prepare as needed of Rice wrapper.
10. You need of Peanut Hoisin Sauce Ingredients :.
11. You need 1 tbs of canola oil.
12. Prepare 2 of garlic cloves, minced.
13. You need 5 tbs of hoisin sauce.
14. Prepare 75 ml of water.
15. It's 2 tbs of peanut butter.
16. It's 1 tbs of sugar.
17. It's of Fish Sauce :.
18. Prepare 1 of garlic clove, minced.
19. It's 1.5 tbs of fish sauce.
20. Prepare as needed of Sambal Oelek (chili paste) or chopped bird eye chili, depends on how spicy you like.
21. It's as needed of Lemon juice.
22. It's 2-3 tbs of sugar.
23. Prepare 2-3 of hot water.

Vietnamese fresh spring rolls (goi cuon in Vietnamese) are an incredibly easy, fresh version of the classic fried spring roll. These rolls (also called summer rolls or salad rolls) are light and healthy, full of fresh herbs and crisp ingredients. These Vietnamese spring rolls are the perfect recipe for beating the heat. Poached shrimp, rice noodles, herbs, and lettuce are rolled into a thin rice wrapper.

Vietnamese Spring Rolls step by step

1. Working with 1 rice wrapper at a time, dip it in warm water for only 1 second (just until soft enough). Lay wrapper on a flat work surface..
2. To assemble each roll, lay a lettuce leaf horizontally on the bottom half of the moistened rice wrapper. At the base of the lettuce, place several strands of noodles, a little each of the carrot and cucumber, 2 slices each of avocado and eggs, several leaves of mint and cilantro. Be careful not to overstuff the rolls, otherwise the wrapper will get torn..
3. Fold in the sides of the rice paper and lift the bottom edge of the rice paper and carefully place over the noodles and other ingredients, then put 3 or 4 shrimp on top then roll to form a tight cylinder..
4. Place the prepared rolls, seam side down, on a platter and cover with a damp kitchen towel. The rolls can be held at room temperature for several hours before serving..
5. To make the peanut hoisin sauce : heat the oil, saute the garlic until golden. Add the remaining ingredients. Cook until it boils and thickened. Adjust the taste..
6. To make the fish sauce : mix all the ingredients. Stir until the sugar dissolved. Taste it. Add sugar and water as needed to adjust the taste because every different fish sauce brand has different saltiness..
7. Serve the rolls with either one of the sauces or both. I prefer to have both sauce for my rolls because the combination of both flavor is just amazing..

Serve with the sweet and sour dipping sauce. One of the most popular dishes at Vietnamese restaurants are shrimp spring rolls with peanut dip. If you're ever eating in a Vietnamese restaurant you'll see many folks ordering this wonderful appetizer. Vietnamese spring rolls are fresh because they're wrapped with rice paper, filled with fresh herbs. Vietnamese Rice Paper Rolls are packed with bright, fresh flavours and served with an insanely addictive Vietnamese Peanut Dipping Sauce that takes a minute to make.