norsegirl

Food of the Gods I tell ya! And I'm getting tired of paying for them in restaurants, so I figured I'd try to make my own.

Recipe: Salad Rolls

1 package rice paper wrappers (they're round and look like tortillas or papadams, if you have a choice, get the big size)
1 package rice noodle vermicelli
several carrots
1 cucumber
medium shrimp, cooked and chilled
Lettuce (the Dole "simply lettuce" mix worked well for me)
President's Choice Memories of Thailand Sauce
President's Choice "Just Peanuts" peanut butter (I like crunchy but choose what you like)

1. Cook shrimp and chill if you didn't buy pre-cooked shrimp, cut in half lengthwise.
2. Boil water and cook vermicelli to desired softness. Rinse with cold water.
3. While noodles cook and shrimp chill, clean and julienne a few carrots. Also prepare the cucumber by peeling, removing the seeds and slicing a la julienne.
4. To soften rice wrappers, place a single wrapper in a dish filled with very warm water (choose one larger than the wrappers) for a few seconds, remove as soon as it is pliable.
5. Place noodles, lettuce, carrots, cucumber and shrimp in a line along the centre of the wrap, stopping an inch from the edge. Start to rill the wrap, fold the edges over and finish rolling, tucking everything in with your fingers as you go. The wrapper should stick to itself. Moisten it slightly if it does not.
6. Cut in half for nice presentation and easier handling.

To make the dipping sauce:
Mix Memories of Thailand sauce and peanut butter, we used equal parts, but mix to your taste. Add a bit of water until it is dippy, not gluey. Feel free to use a blender, we didn't bother.

Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. I think I might see if I can make these the night before and take them in my lunch to work. I'm concerned that the wrapper might get either stiff or gluey, so we'll see. I'll report back later this week on the success or failure of that experiment.