These Spring Rolls just scream “fresh”. I love to serve them with fish or barbecued meats, either as a vegetable or as the “salad” for the meal.
Very Yummy!
Fresh Vegetable Spring Rolls
Fresh Vegetable Spring Rolls are made using rice paper wrappers and mushrooms, cucumber, carrots, sweet peppers and mango.
Ingredients
- 2 Portobello mushrooms, sliced thinly and julienned, may substitute with Crimini mushrooms
- ½ English cucumber or 3 or 4 baby cucumbers, julienned
- 1 large carrot, peeled and julienned
- 1 red or yellow sweet pepper, julienned
- 1 mango, peeled, pitted and julienned
- 12 rice paper wrappers, - found in Asian section of the grocery store
- 12 fresh basil leaves
- ¼ cup sesame seeds, toasted
Dipping Sauce for Spring Rolls
- ½ cup Sweet Thai Chili Sauce, found in the Asian section of the grocery store
- 2 tbsp lime juice, may use freshly squeezed limes or bottled juice
- 2 tsp rice wine vinegar
- 2 tsp water
Instructions
Dipping Sauce
- In a small bowl, stir together chili sauce, lime juice, rice wine vinegar and water; set aside.
Make the Spring Rolls
- Toss the mushroom with about 1 tbsp of the dipping sauce
- Fill a shallow pan (large pie plate works well) with lukewarm water. Soak rice paper wrappers, 1 at a time in water until soft and pliable (about 1 minute). Transfer to tea towel and pat dry.
- While filling the prepared rice paper wrapper, start to soak the next one.
- Along bottom edge of wrapper and leaving 1 “ on each side, place 1 basil leaf, 1 tsp of sesame seeds, 4 pieces each of cucumber, sweet pepper, carrot and mango and about 1 tbsp of mushroom. Fold sides over and tightly roll up.
- Repeat with remaining ingredients to make 12 rolls
- Cover the finished rolls with damp tea towel while preparing the rest. (They will dry out otherwise). They can be over-wrapped with plastic wrap (i.e. over the tea towel) and refrigerated for up to 8 hours. You can eat them leftover the next day, but they will not be as good.
- Serve them on a platter and pass the dipping sauce with a spoon. They are very tasty when some sauce is drizzled over them
Notes
The dipping sauce is also very good for take out Chinese deep fried spring rolls.