Summer Roll Platter

Ease: Easy | Serves: 2 | Prepare Time: 20 mins | Cook Time: 10 mins

Summer Roll Platter

Vietnamese Summer rolls, or Gỏi Cuốn (salad roll), are a fresh and flavourful dish consisting of rice paper wrappers filled with fresh herbs, vegetables, rice noodles, and often shrimp or pork, served with a dipping sauce.

Ingredients:

• 10 rice paper wrappers

• 100g (3.5 oz) rice vermicelli noodles

• 2-3 imitation snow crab legs

• 1 small cucumber

• 1 medium carrot

• 1/2 cup shredded lettuce or mixed greens

• 2 Eggs

• 1 Luncheon Meat (Spam)

• 1 Purple Sweet Potato

• 1 Purple cabbage

• 2 Okra

• Kimchi

Dipping Sauce:

• Fish Sauce

• Sugar

• Water

• Garlic

• Chilli

• Lime

• Mint

Cooking Instructions:

Ingredient Prep

1. Steam Purple Sweet Potato slices for 30 mins.

2. Make a thin egg crepe, cut into slices.

3. Grill Luncheon Meat slices.

4. Boil soaked vermicelli with purple cabbage for 8 minutes until dyed light blue.

5. Boil Okra for 5 mins, and chopped them into small star pieces.

6. Slice carrot, cucumber, and purple cabbage.

7. Dip rice paper in warm water for 5 seconds until soft.

Sauce Making

• Fish Sauce : Sugar : Water = 1 : 1 : 2

• Mix with chopped garlic, chilli, lime slice and mint.

Rolling Up

1. Layer vermicelli, carrot, cucumber, cabbage and egg slices as basic filling.

2. Fold the sides and roll once tightly.

3. Add one of the colourful ingredients.

4. Fold the sides and continue rolling tightly until the end.

5. Repeat the same steps, replacing with different coloured ingredients to make summer rolls in various colours.

6. Add toppings to make them look more appetising.

7. Serve by cutting the rolls in half

Voilà! Give it a try! Perfect with the dipping sauce.

Add this low-calorie Summer Rolls Platter to your picnic recipe list!

P.S. Feel free to mix and match the colourful parts of the rolls with any ingredients you love!

Easy & Fun Recipe - Summer Roll Platter

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