Recipes
Vietnamese spring rolls
Season :Spring/ Summer
Servings :4
Diet :Gluten free
Time :50 minutes (plus optional marinating time for a couple of hours)
Difficulty :Medium
This is one of my favourite Spring/ Summer dishes! Fresh, healthy, delicious and fun to make and everyone can customize their own. Place all your fillings in bowls on a table and start rolling! Dip in the peanut sauce or use the Kewpie roasted sesame dressing (store bought dressing).
INGREDIENTS
- 300 gr. chicken thighs
- 3 tbsp. soy sauce
- 2 tbsp. of ginger finely chopped
- 2 cloves of garlic finely chopped
- ½ chili pepper finely chopped
- 1 tsp. honey
- 1 tsp. sesame oil
- Sunflower oil
Peanut sauce
- 6 heaped tbsp. of peanut butter
- 1 lime
- 2 tbsp. of soy sauce
- Thumb size piece of grated ginger
- Half a chili pepper with seeds finely chopped
- 2 cloves of garlic finely chopped
- Bunch of coriander stalks
- 1 stalk of lemongrass finely chopped
- Sesame oil
Optional fillings
- Rice paper rolls (a must)
- Mung bean or rice noodles
- Orange and yellow bell pepper strips
- Cucumber strips
- Grated carrot
- Grated beetroot
- Thinly sliced radish
- Mint
- Thai basil
- Coriander
- Chives
- Thinly sliced spring onion
PREPARATION
- Slice the chicken in thin strips. Marinate it in the above ingredients (except the sunflower oil) preferably for a couple of hours or use immediately if you don’t have enough time. Heat up some sunflower oil and fry for a couple of minutes over a high heat until cooked and crispy.
- Next, make the peanut sauce. Start by finely chopping the lemon grass, chili pepper, garlic, coriander stalks and ginger or pulse everything in a food processor until fine.
- Heat some sesame oil in a frying pan and sauté the above ingredients for about 5 minutes.
- Add the sautéed ingredients to a food processor or a hand blender with the peanut butter, soy sauce and lime juice and blitz together, slowly adding about ¼ to ½ a glass of water to make it thinner until you have a thick sauce consistency.
- Prepare all the optional fillings.
- Put everything on your dining table including a bowl of warm water. Dip the rice paper rolls in the water and fill with all your favourite ingredients.
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