But regardless of the region, home-style Vietnamese cooking calls for an array of simple dishes that make complementary partners at a family’s communal meal. Dinners customarily call for a soup, probably a platter of leafy greens accompanied by rice papers and a dipping sauce, seafood or grilled meats or poultry, a vegetable stir-fry, and rice or noodles in some form – with hot tea as the preferred beverage. While such meals may look complex to outsiders, most dishes come together easily, and some call for advance preparation to avoid last-minute conflicts. And, as in any type of cooking, planning ahead makes putting together meals much easier. This rice paper roll is a popular dish of Vietname.

Ingredients

• 1 cucumber
• 1 carrot
• 2 celery stick
• 2 cup of bean shoots
• 1/4 cup mint leaves
• 3 tablespoons pickled ginger
• 1 bunch chopped chives
• Rice paper sheets

DIPPING SAUCE

• 3 tablespoons lime juice
• 3 tablespoons Thai fish sauce (is serving with meat use homemade fishless mock “fish” sauce)
• 1 teaspoon of crushed garlic
• 2 small red chilies, finely sliced
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar

Directions

• Roughly shred cucumber, carrot and celery and dip in boiling water to soften.
• Place in large bowl and add the bean shoots, mint leaves, ginger and chives. Mix well.
• Soften rice paper sheets by soaking in warm water. Place on a clean cotton cloth to absorb excess moisture.
• Take a few spoonfuls of the ingredients and roll up tight in rice sheet.
• Serve with the sauce.
• This dish needs to be eaten soon after making to avoid rice paper becoming too soggy.

Tweet This