Making Vietnamese Salad Rolls

Vietnamese Salad Rolls

We made our own Vietnamese Salad Rolls yesterday. It wasn't that difficult once you get all the necessary ingredients together. We have bought some rice paper from T&T Supermarket earlier in the day, which is the wrapper used for the Vietnamese salad rolls. Other ingredients that we already have were cucumbers, rice noodle, carrots, avocado, lettuce, and fresh shrimps. Since we have a bit of every one of the ingredient, making the Vietnamese salad roll was a pretty good idea.

Vietnamese Salad Rolls

First, the rice noodle was blenched in hot water and allowed to rest in a bowl with cold water. The shrimps too have to be cooked. So, blench them in hot boiling water for a minute. Next, we cut the vegetables into fine strips. Then, mix a little of each item with the rice noodle and wrap in the rice paper. The rice paper has to be blench in water to soften. Otherwise, it would be too crisp to roll. I have seen fried ones but we were making the non-fried Vietnamese salad rolls.

Fried Rice with Shrimps and Egg

We have some leftover rice from the day before. So, the wife fried rice with shrimp and eggs to complete our dinner. Just a simple dinner, enough to fill for the rest of the night. Normally, if we don't go out for dinner on a weekend, we would settle for a simple dinner like this. We usually use the weekend to catch up on our work and mostly spend quality time with the kids. We enjoy home cooked cuisines as much as we do restaurant cuisines. In fact, sometime home cooked meals taste even better.