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🇻🇳 Lunch · Vietnam
Vietnamese Spring Rolls
Gỏi cuốn — literally 'rolled salad' — comes from southern Vietnam, where the heat calls for cool, fresh food rather than fried street snacks. The translucent bánh tráng wrap shows off everything inside: pink poached prawns, white poached pork, green herbs and white vermicelli, dipped table-side into hoisin-peanut sauce or the sharper nước chấm. They are the light, market-fresh opposite of the deep-fried chả giò northerners favour.
Rich in protein
Filling and nutritious
Traditional recipe
Authentic taste
Ingredients 6 servings
- 12 rice paper wrappers (bánh tráng)
- 200 g cooked prawns, peeled
- 200 g cooked pork belly, sliced
- 100 g cooked rice vermicelli
- 1 cucumber
- Lettuce leaves
- Fresh mint leaves
- Fresh coriander leaves
- Hoisin or nước chấm sauce for dipping
How to make it
- 1Prep everything before you start rolling — once you begin you can't pause.
- 2Cook the rice vermicelli per the packet, rinse under cold water until completely cool, and drain well.
- 3Slice the cooked pork belly thinly; have the cooked prawns split lengthwise so the pink side faces the wrapper for presentation.
- 4Cut the cucumber into matchsticks.
- 5Pile the herbs, lettuce leaves with their stems removed, vermicelli, cucumber and proteins on a tray within easy reach.
- 6Fill a shallow bowl with warm — not hot — water.
- 7Dip one rice paper for just five seconds; it should still feel firm when you lay it on a slightly damp tea towel, and it will finish softening as you build the roll.
- 8On the third closest to you, lay a small lettuce leaf, then a few mint and coriander leaves, a pinch of vermicelli, cucumber matchsticks and a slice of pork.
- 9Fold the bottom edge up over the filling, then fold the two sides in, and as you start the final roll lay two prawn halves pink-side-down on the wrapper so they show through the finished roll.
- 10Roll tightly to seal.
- 11Cover finished rolls with a damp cloth so they don't dry, and serve with hoisin-peanut sauce or nước chấm.
Nutritional info
per serving (~350 g)
Calories 495 kcal
Protein 35 g
Carbs 36 g
Fat 20 g
Fiber 3 g
Estimated nutritional values.
Pairs perfectly with
🍷 Red wine
🥗 Green salad
🍞 Fresh bread
🥔 Roasted potatoes
