Fresh and crunchy!
* This recipe has been adapted from Recipe Tin Eats
Ingredients
- 7-14 sheets of 22cm/8.5” round rice paper
- 500g lean chicken, chopped
- 50g/1.5oz dried vermicelli noodles
- 2 carrots, grated
- 2 celery sticks, grated
- 14 mint leaves
- 1 cup bean sprouts
- Spinach leaves
Vietnamese Peanut Dipping Sauce
- 1 tbsp peanut butter, preferably smooth
- 2 tbsp Hoisin Sauce
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 1½ tbsp white vinegar (or lime juice)
- 1/3 cup milk (I use almond milk)
- ½ tsp crushed chilli, samba oelak or other chilli paste, adjust to taste (optional)
Instruction
- Peanut Sauce: Combine the Peanut Dipping Sauce ingredients. Mix briefly (it won’t come together), then microwave for 30 seconds. Mix again until smooth. Set aside to cool. Adjust sour with vinegar, salt with salt and spiciness to taste. Thickness can be adjusted with almond milk or water once cooled.
- Place vermicelli noodles in a bowl and cover with warm water for 2 minutes, then drain (or follow packet instructions).
- Cook the chicken in a large pan and set aside.
- Fill a large bowl with warm water. The bowl doesn’t need to be large enough to fit the whole rice paper in one go.
- Place two rice papers together (if using 2). Note which side is the smooth side –this is supposed to be the outside of the spring roll. Submerge the rice papers into the water (both of them at the same time, together) for 2 seconds. If your bowl isn’t large enough to fit the whole rice paper in one go, that’s fine, just rotate it and count 2 seconds for each section you submerge into the water.
- Place both the rice papers (one on top of the other, they will stick together) on aboard or the counter with the smooth side down.
- On the top part of the rice paper, place some of the chicken with a mint leaf in between.
- Place the spinach, vermicelli noodles, bean sprouts, carrot and celery inside.
- Fold the left and right edges of the rice paper in, then starting from the bottom, roll up to cover the bundle. Then keep rolling firmly. The rice paper is sticky, it will seal itself.
- Serve immediately with the peanut dipping sauce.
Perfect for midweek dinner!
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