Spring Rolls: A Year-Round Treat
We love Vietnamese spring rolls and, fortunately, they're available year round. But we wanted to try our hand at making them at home. The good news is that you can't mess these up. Pack them with fresh vegetables and meat, if you like, and dip them in a sauce...what could be easier? And if you've got kids, they can tell you exactly what they want in them and roll them themselves. Instructions in the gallery captions. Enjoy!
Start with fresh vegetables cut into strips to make them easy to lay in the roll. Here, you can see that we used cucumber, red onion, tomato, green pepper, red pepper, and avocado. We also used poached chicken. Rice noodles are the norm but we only had buckwheat noodles on hand so we used those. We also used a head of green leaf lettuce and some fresh cilantro. (Photo by Stolpman)
