Spring Rolls With Nuoc Cham Dipping Sauce
- Ready In:
- 1hr 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
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Spring rolls
- 40 g rice noodles
- 5 spring onions, mainly the white parts, chopped finely
- 2 carrots, peeled and cut to matchstick size
- 1 1⁄4 cups bean sprouts (the recipe calls for 2 large handfuls)
- 2 garlic cloves, peeled and cut into fine slivers
- 18 mint leaves, torn into small pieces
- 6 large egg roll wraps
- oil, for frying
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Nuoc Cham Dip
- 2 small hot red chili peppers, chopped very finely
- 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce
- 6 tablespoons water
- 3 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 4 tablespoons caster sugar
- 1 large lime, juice of
- 1 bunch coriander leaves, chopped
directions
- For the Spring Rolls.
- In a bowl with warm water soak the rice noodles until soft, approximately five minutes.
- Drain and mix with the carrot, spring onion, bean shoots.
- garlic and mint.
- On a flat surface lay out a spring roll wrapper and place 1/6 of the mix in the middle.
- Roll the whole thing up, so that it looks like a fat sausage.
- Using a little water, moisten the edges to seal, also folding over the ends.
- Repeat.
- Heat oil in a dep frying pan (make sure the is quite a bit of room between the oil and the top of the pan as it will bubble up when you put the spring rolls in).
- Fry the spring rolls for 2-3 minutes, turning once, until crisp and golden brown.
- Drain of excess fat on kitchen paper.
- Serve hot with dipping sauce.
- For the Dipping Sauce.
- Put the Soy sauce, water, vinegar and sugar in a small pan and heat until it nearly comes to a boil.
- The sugar should dissolve if you stir it well before the sauce boils.
- Remove from heat and leave to cool.
- Once cool add all the other ingredients and leave for at least an hour to infuse before serving.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
-Sylvie-
Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Hi, I'm 31 and cooking and living in England. I was born in Germany and that's where I grew up and lived until I came to the UK to go to University in 1998.
I never went back to live in Germany, even though all my family is still there.