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Vietnamese Rice Paper Roll with a Minty Pineapple in-roll Sauce

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Rice paper roll is such a great appetizers/snack. You can load them with veges of your choice and serve with a dipping sauce. I usually add a dollop of the sauce inside the rice paper roll(in-roll sauce, we call this). And serve.

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Meat is usually an integral part of this roll and veganizing it -roasted tofu strips work so well. I am a texture person 🙂 Big time. I added some unsalted roasted peanuts-to stick to an Asian theme.

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Pineapple & Mint in-roll Sauce

I made the sauce from pineapples chunks & mint leaves. This is a super easy raw sauce. Takes less than a minute to whisk this. I dunno how great this sauce will be as a dipping sauce. But this is super great inside the rice paper roll.

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You need:

  • 1/4 cup pineapple chunks
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 1/4 of thai red chili (more for hot version)(Tears were streaming down my face for this quantity-so watch out)
  • Salt-to taste
  • Agave/Coconut nectar-1.5 tsp
  • 20 mint leaves-more/less-depends on how minty you want

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Method:

  • Chuck them all inside a food processor and process until smooth.

For the roll-You need:

  • Carrot,Cucumber-cut into sticks
  • Spinach-a handful
  • Unsalted peanuts-to taste-start with a tbsp
  • Tofu-50 gms-cut into sticks(add a tsp of sesame oil onto a small pan, once it heats up, add tofu, salt and roast until golden brown on the outside. When it is nearly done, add 1/2 tsp soy sauce(gluten-free), sprinkle some salt)
  • Glass Noodles- (follow the instructions on the pack-mine says 20 in cold water-I cheat-I do 5 mins in warm water)-drained, add onto paper towels-pat them as dry as you can.
  • In-Roll Mint Sauce
  • Most Important: Rice papers-5/6

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Method:

  • Take a shallow plate, add until the plate is half full. Keep it aside
  • Keep all the ingredients and sauce next to ya.
  • Take a sheet of paper, dip it into the water. Best way to do it is dip once, flip dip again and add to a flat surface
  • Add 4 sticks of carrot, cucumber, tofu, 4 spinach leaves, pinch the glass noodles and add whatever you catch onto the roll, sprinkle 3-4 peanuts and a dollop of sauce.
  • Roll them (Look at the instructions image below)

instructions

  • Cut into 2 and serve

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