Sample Recipe:
Prawn & Avocado Rice Paper Rolls
What you'll need
8 Sheets of medium round rice paper rolls
16 large cooked prawns
1 half an iceberg lettuce
Fresh coriander leaves
1 avocado
Vietnamese dipping sauce
Who's rolling?
So, in my house we enjoy rolling our own at the dinner table but if you want to serve them ready, just work systematically
Prep
My tactics for prawn peeling:
Pinch and twist to remove the head, slide your thumb along the ridge underneath the shell to remove it, pinch and squeeze to pull off the tail so you don't lose any meat, and peel back the top of the prawn removing the vein
Peel prawns completely, de-vein and slice lengthways down the middle
Slice lettuce nice and thin
Slice avocado
Pick Coriander leaves
Get ready to roll
Lettuce Tip:
I like my lettuce strips to be nice and thin, I find it makes it a lot easier when you are rolling
Fill a bowl large enough to fit a rice paper with hot water from the tap
Dipp your rice paper into the water completely submerging it till it begins to feel nice and soft
Lay out on a clean dry surface
Place coriander leaves in the centre of the sheet
Then arrange 4 half pieces of prawn with the red side down
Lay your avocado neatly over the top (the whole time thinking about presentation)
Then bulk it up with lettuce
Fold the sides (3 o’clock and 9 o’clock) into the centre
Take the bottom of the rice paper and pull it up and over the filling then tuck it down snug and roll upwards.
In my house we enjoy rolling our own at the dinner table, but you could easily serve these ready made, just repeat until all the filling is used.