Vegetable Spring Rolls with Peanut Dipping Sauce

By GuidingVegan

For the spring rolls, we used carrots, green and red peppers, cucumber, lettuce, and cilantro. I’ve used Thai basil and mint before-instead of the cilantro, they are all excellent. We used round rice paper sheets for the base of the rolls and Asian rice vermicelli noodles for the filling. Most stores have an Asian section, if you can’t find these items there, check your area to see if there is an Asian market nearby. I love visiting our local Asian market-great prices and fun finds.

The spring rolls are good, but the peanut dipping sauce is the BEST! I can’t even describe how good it is, there are no words. I could drink it by the gallon. Peanut butter, lemon grass, ginger, garlic, hoison sauce-all of these flavors work so well together. Try this sauce and let me know what you think. I am confident it will be your new “go to” peanut sauce. I have never tasted better.

Ingredients

• For Peanut Dipping Sauce:
• 1 carrot, peeled and cut into long matchsticks
• 1 green pepper, cut into long matchsticks
• 1 red pepper, cut into long matchsticks
• 1 cucumber, cut into long matchsticks
• Romaine lettuce leaves
• 6 ounces Asian rice vermicelli noodles
• Round rice sheets
• Sprigs of cilantro and/or Thai basil, mint
• 1 small piece of lemon grass, chopped
• Freshly grated ginger-to taste
• 1 cup water
• 1/2 cup hoisin sauce
• 3 tablespoons smooth peanut butter
• 11/2 tablespoons sugar

Details

Adapted from twopeasandtheirpod.com

Preparation

Step 1

1. Chop all of the veggies and set aside.

2. Boil and drain noodles per package instructions. Cool under water. Set aside.

3. One at a time, soak rice sheets into warm water to soften. Use a shallow dish or pie plate for this step. Lay a rice sheet on a towel covered work surface. Working quickly, place some noodles, vegetables, lettuce, and a few herb leaves on the near side of the rice round. Roll mixture forward (in egg roll fashion) one revolution then add additional vegetables. Tuck ends inward and finish the roll. Continue making rolls until ingredients are exhausted.


For Sauce:

In a small sauce pan, simmer lemon grass in the water for 5 minutes, strain out the lemongrass and add the remaining ingredients to the water. Whisk well and simmer an additional 5 minutes. If the sauce doesn’t thicken, whisk for one minute over medium heat. Pour into individual serving cups and serve with spring rolls.