Spring Rolls

Veggie Spring Rolls have become one of our new favorites around here. I will apologize right up front to those of you that live in places that don't have an Asian grocery store. We are lucky enough to have one relatively close to our house.The round things in the above picture are the rice paper wrappers and the bag next to it is rice sticks(tiny little rice noodles). Slivered long ways is red pepper, fresh water chestnuts, carrot, bib lettuce, Asian cucumber, and green onions. You want to make all of your veggies about the same size and length, this will make assembling the rolls much easier. To get started put a pan of water on to boil. Break off a chunk of the rice noodles and place in a large bowl. Once the water is boiling pour over noodles and cover with a plate. They will need to soak for about 10-15 minutes. Now you can get the veggies all sliced up. You can use whatever veggies you have, we have also tried bean sprouts, cabbage and diacon radish. When your noodles are soft drain and toss with a little soy sauce or braggs. Now its time to get your rice paper wrappers softened up. To do this, fill a plate with barely warm water. Taylre and I found out the hard way not to use too warm water, as the wrappers will tear. Fresh out of the package the wrappers will have a thick paper like consistency. you will slide them into the water and kinda move them around in the water while keeping them fully submerged. You will feel them turn to a pliable wet noodle like consistency under you fingers. When this happens they are ready to use. This is where it gets tricky! Move to a work surface and smooth out flat. If you tear the first one, don't feel bad..grab a new one and try again. Once you have one laid out, make a pile of veggies and noodles in the middle, just like your making a burrito. When you have a nice little uniform pile in the middle, fold the edges closest to the tips of the veggies, up over the veggies. Now you simply roll the whole thing up like a burrito. It is pretty tricky till you get the hang of it, so don't get frustrated. The wrappers are super inexpensive and you can even eat the ugly rolls!

Spring Roll Dipping Sauce

2 parts Rice wine vinegar

1 part Braggs Aminos or Soy Sauce

A drop or 2 of Sesame oil

Garlic Sriracha and black pepper to taste

Combine Ingredients and enjoy!

For those of you that dont want to mess around with rolling up spring rolls..throw all ingredients in a bowl and enjoy!