How to Prepare Tasty Vietnamese summer rolls

Vietnamese summer rolls. These light and healthy Vietnamese-influenced summer rolls are filled with cooked shrimp, rice noodles, and plenty of fresh herbs and vegetables for flavor and crunch. Fill a pie plate with warm water. Summer rolls, also known as fresh spring rolls, are one of my favorite things to order at a restaurant.

Evan Sung for The New York Times If you have ever considered making a Vietnamese summer roll, you may have been intimidated by the process. But these delicious rolls are not at all difficult. Fill a large bowl with warm water. You can have Vietnamese summer rolls using 12 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Vietnamese summer rolls

1. Prepare 12 of Rice wrapper rolls.
2. It's Packet of prawns or cooked chicken/tofu/mushroom.
3. It's 1 of large carrot julienne.
4. Prepare 1/2 of deseeded cucumber julienne.
5. Prepare 1 of pepper finely sliced.
6. You need Handful of spring onions finely sliced.
7. Prepare leaves of Mint.
8. You need of Sesame oil a dash of.
9. It's 1/2 of juice of lemon or a lime.
10. You need 1 tsp of dark soy sauce.
11. It's 1 tsp of sugar.
12. It's of Vermicelli rice noodles chopped up.

Summer rolls are one of the most popular appetizers in Vietnamese recipes. They are healthy, refreshing and low in calories. The rolls are made with fresh vegetables and boiled shrimp and/or sliced pork. All the ingredients are rolled together using rice paper.

Vietnamese summer rolls instructions

1. In a pan place some water bring it to the boil and add the noodles, once cooked, drain and chop up with some scissors..
2. Prepare the veggies. Then in a bowl add the soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar and lemon juice. Then throw in the veggies and mix well..
3. In a large bowl of water dip in the rice wrapper for 3 seconds! Lift out into a board. Place the veggies on a third of the wrapper. Roll over..
4. Add some vermicelli, roll over tuck in the ends then what ever meat etc and roll up! Leave a damp tea towel on the ones you make as you go along! Dip in sweet chilli sauce !.

Make the dipping sauce by pounding the garlic, chilli, ginger and sugar together using a pestle and mortar, then stir in the fish sauce and lime juice. Gỏi cuốn, Vietnamese spring roll, fresh spring roll, spring roll, or rice paper roll, is a Vietnamese dish traditionally consisting of pork, prawn, vegetables, bún (rice vermicelli), and other ingredients wrapped in Vietnamese bánh tráng (commonly known as rice paper or cold roll). Like other spring roll dishes, they are believed to have an origin in China and were introduced to Vietnam. Photograph: Felicity Cloake Herbs play a big part in Vietnamese cooking - they're often used more like a salad leaf than a garnish, and in the summer roll it's no exception. Add the chicken and carrot, season with salt to taste and set aside.