Vietnam is one of the countries famous for its cuisine. If you are interested in Far East, South East Asian cuisines Vietnamese cuisine It is also one of the cuisines you should definitely try. vietnamese coffee While it is my favorite coffee among the coffees I have tried in the world, it offers flavors that we cannot find very often in our geography, from Pho soup to noddle varieties, from sea food to spring roll varieties.
The most important ingredient of Vietnamese cuisine is rice. You can think of it like rice in Vietnam is like wheat to us. Rice is used in different forms, such as boiled rice instead of bread, rice in soup, rice in dessert, puffed rice for bread, rice paper instead of lavash. One of our favorites spring roll It was.
What is Spring Roll?
Spring Roll, which resembles a spring roll in appearance, is used in some restaurant menus. spring rolls It is a kind of pastry that you can see as a vietnamese style rice paper on the outside, which you can fill with any vegetables, mushrooms, chicken you want, and which you can eat either fresh or fried. It is inedible with soy sauce.
This pastry, which you can find in many countries in the Far East and South East Asia, from China to Thailand, from Vietnam to Japan, is highly preferred because it is both simple to make and economical. If you have trouble trying new cuisines and are worried about what to eat and drink in the Far East, this pastry can be a good option.
How to Make a Vietnamese Spring Roll?
In addition to trying the local cuisines of that country in the countries we visit, we also like to cook the delicacies we love when we return home. If there are spices and foods specific to the countries we go to, we take them as long as we have room on our return.
On our return from Vietnam, we bought rice paper to make spring rolls and we liked it very much after we returned, we did it very well. Wandering the Metro Market recently where the noddles were rice paper When we found it, we were happy as if we had found gold, we made spring roll at home in our own way. I decided to write this article because I got a lot of questions when I shared it on social media.
Spring Roll Materials
- 10 pack rice paper
- 1 zucchini
- 1 carrot
- 1 red bell pepper
- 1 pieces of green pepper
- 5-6 mushrooms
- root of 2-3 green onions
- enough spice mix of your choice (according to your taste)
- Soybean sprouts if you can find them (we didn't put them)
Spring Roll Making
First, we gently kill the julienne-chopped ingredients in a high-heat vog pan, from hard-to-cook to easy-to-cook. It is good that the materials do not leave their juices.
We leave our stuffing to cool and move on to rice paper. Since rice paper is a very hard material, we put water in a large bowl, separately for each leaf, and soak the rice paper in water for a few minutes to bring it to a softness suitable for processing. We put the softened rice paper on a towel, so that we get the excess water.
We wrap the rice paper on the towel, as if wrapping a spring roll, without hardening, with the inner material in the middle. What you are wrapping is now a spring roll, you can consume it with soy sauce without cooking it if you wish. Our cooked form is eaten as fresh spring roll in Vietnam. Even if you cook it in hot oil, it is known as a fried spring roll. We cooked it lightly in a Turkish style low-fat pan between the two, and ours turned out to be quite good.
We made a practical, light and delicious burrito, you can enjoy it.