Vietnamese Spring Rolls Preparation Time: 15 mins
Cooking Time: 20 mins Servings: 6 Light, fun, and healthy. The perfect party food that your guests eat with their hands. Try with the Lime Fish Sauce and Hoisin Peanut Sauce dips to excite your guests. Ingredients dried rice noodles 1/2 lb canola oil 1/2 cup tofu - firm 1 lb slice into 2 x 3 inch slices garlic clove 3 peeld & chopped shallot 1 peeled and chopped carrot 1 peeled and julienned jicama 1 peeled and julienned oyster sauce 3 tbsps thai basil 1 washed and stems removed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Directions Bring a pot of water to a boil and cook the rice noodles until they are al dente. Remove, rinse under cool water, and set aside. In a large frying pan heat the anola oil over high heat. Add the sliced tofu and fry on each side until they are golden brown. Remove to a paper towel covered plate and dry. Allow to cool and julienne. Add the garlic and shallot to the frying pan. Fry until the shallot becomes translucent. Add the carrots and cook for 1 minute. Add the jicama, tofu, and oyster sauce. Cook for an additional 2 minutes. Taste and correct the seasoning with salt and pepper. Remove to a bowl to cool. To prepare the Rice Paper for rolling fill a large bowl with hot tap water. Hold the race paper over the bowl and begin to submerge. Begin to turn the rice paper clockwise until the paper begins to soften around the edges. Submerge the entire rice paper so the center soften. Hold over the bowl to allow the excess water to drip. Place flat on a cutting board and check for dry areas. Using your fingers rub the dry areas with water from the bowl. At the end nearest to you place a piece of lettuce about 2 inches long and wide. Top with 2 tablespoons of the rice noodle. Add 2 tablespoons of the carrot and jicama mixture. Top with a few leaves of the thai basil. Start rolling the rice paper by folding the 2 sides into the center and roll it away from you, tucking and pushing down the mixture as you roll. The paper will seal itself. Repeat. Notes These rolls are great with the lime fish sauce and peanut hoisin sauce. The rolls need to be rolled tight so that when you take a bite nothing falls out. -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from www.doramail.com with 30 Megs of disk space in webhosting and e-mail storage! Powered by Outblaze ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $4.98 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Q7_YsB/neXJAA/yQLSAA/9rHolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HERB-RECIPE/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
