Vietnamese Summer Rolls with Peanut Dipping Sauce

Ingredients

• Peanut butter

  Smooth style, with salt

  ¾ cup or 194g

• Water

  Plain, clean water

  ⅓ cup or 79g

• Hoisin sauce

  Ready-to-serve

  ¼ cup or 64g

• Rice wine vinegar

  2 tbsp or 30g

• Liquid aminos

  Bragg's

  1 tbsp or 15g

• Fish sauce

  Ready-to-serve

  1 tbsp or 18g

• Garlic

  Raw

  1 cloves, minced or 3g

• Sesame oil

  Salad or cooking

  2 tsp or 9g

• Shrimp

  Crustaceans, mixed species, raw

  8 medium or 48g

• Spring Roll Wrapper

  Tyj

  8 sheet or 45g

• Lettuce

  Butterhead (includes boston and bibb types), raw

  8 leaf, large or 120g

• Red cabbage

  Red, raw

  ½ cup, shredded or 35g

• Carrots

  Raw

  ½ cup grated or 55g

• Scallions

  Spring onions or scallions (includes tops and bulb), raw

  1 medium or 15g

• Basil

  Fresh

  8 leaf, whole or 4g

• Cucumber

  Peeled, raw

  1 small or 158g

Directions

1. For the peanut sauce: Whisk all the ingredients together in a small bowl; set aside.
2. Bring a medium pot of salted water to a boil over high heat. Add the shrimp, turn off heat and poach until bright pink and opaque, about 1 1/2 minutes. Drain in a colander and run under very cold water until cool. Dry with paper towels and cut each shrimp in half horizontally (making them thinner). Place on a plate, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate until you're ready to roll.
3. Fill a wide, shallow dish large enough to hold the rice paper wrappers with warm water. Arrange all of the filling ingredients within easy reach around a work surface. Lay down a lettuce leaf and place a arrange a little bit of rice noodles, cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, scallions and a few cilantro leaves in the middle. Roll lettuce around the noodles and vegetables in a cigar shape and set aside, seam side down.
4. Working with 1 wrapper at a time, submerge rice paper until it is soft and pliable, about 10 seconds (it will soften more as it sits). Remove the wrapper from the water and place it on the work surface. Lay 3 shrimp halves in a row, cut side facing up, just above the center of the wrapper, leaving about 1 inch of space on each side. Place 1 mint leaf between each shrimp. Place the filled lettuce roll just below the shrimp.
5. Fold the bottom half of the rice paper wrapper over the filling and roll until the shrimp and lettuce are secured. Then fold in the sides of the wrapper. Then roll the entire wrapper so it becomes sealed, like a burrito. Place roll on a rimmed baking sheet and cover loosely with a lightly damp paper towel and plastic wrap. Repeat with the remaining wrappers and fillings. Leave a little space between each summer roll so they don't stick together. If not serving immediately, keep the rolls covered with damp towels and plastic wrap at room temperature for up to 2 hours. Serve with the peanut sauce for dipping.
6. Recipe by: Emily Clifton, Nerds with Knives (source: https://nerdswithknives.com/vietnamese-summer-rolls-peanut-sauce/)

Similar Foods

• Tofu Peanut Lettuce Wraps Vegan lettuce wraps with a peanut dipping sauce
• Broiled Fish with Summer Tomato Sauce
• Asian Turkey Meatballs with Lime Cilantro Dipping Sauce
• Sesame Tempura Green Beans with Soy Dipping Sauce
• Cucumber Noodles with Peanut Sauce
• Chicken Satay with Peanut Sauce