vietnamese rice paper rolls

beautiful salad ingredients wrapped in rice paper with fried tofu; delicious, fun and healthy!


it's also my favourite hot weather meal due to the minimal cooking and refreshing flavours, which can be included to taste- here are my favourites, all of which can be found in most asian grocers and many supermarkets:


shredded carrot
finely sliced cucumber
mint
coriander
bean shoots
fried tofu
satay or hoi sin sauce (i like to drizzle some inside the roll rather than use a dipping sauce)
shredded black fungus (sold dry, soak a handful in boiling water for 5 minutes, then pan fry with ginder and garlic for 5 minutes)


the rice paper needs to be wet, not soaked; you can either run the sheet you are about to use under a tap, or dip in a bowl of water (it does not need to be hot or warm) so that the whole sheet is wet. lay the sheet on a dinner plate, and line up a little of each desired ingredient about 2cm inside one of the edges of the paper; then you're ready to roll!


don't worry if your roll doesn't work so well the first time, or falls apart- it'll still taste great!