Saturday, January 3, 2009

Spring/Summer Rolls and Peanut Sauce

Ingredients:
Summer Rolls:
1 Apple, sliced into strips
Rice Vermicelli Noodles
Shredded Carrots
Romaine Lettuce (Just the leafy parts)
Rice Paper Wrapper
Meat

Peanut Sauce:
1/2 cup Creamy Peanut Butter
1 Tbsp Sugar
2 Tbsp Hoisin Sauce
1 Tbsp Soy Sauce
1 small Garlic Clove, mashed to paste (optional)
1 tsp Chili-Garlic paste
1 Tbsp Sesame Oil
Juice of 1 lime
1/4 cup Water

Directions:

1. Combine all sauce ingredients in a mixing bowl and stir until well combined, adding water to thin sauce if necessary.
2. Place one rice wrapper and in a bowl of warm water for 3-5 seconds. Rice wrapper will become soft. Do not over soak.
3. Remove rice paper and lay flat on a plate.
4. On top 1/3 side closest to you, place a small piece of lettuce on the bottom.
5. Place remaining ingredients on top of lettuce.
6. Carefully roll up spring roll 1/3 of the way, then fold in the sides and finish rolling the spring roll.
7. Serve with the peaunut sauce.

**In general, you can use any type of meat. Just don't put too much in the roll. You can also use whatever vegetables you want. For the sauce, you can also use sweet chili sauce. When I make the peanut sauce, I also cut back on the amount of hoisin sauce. But you can play around with the amounts to make it taste the way you want.

1 comment:

the boogeyman's wife said...

mmmm, these sound good. i've been missing your recipes.