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Gỏi Cuốn (Summer Salad Roll)

By Tu Le
Course Main Course, Salad
Servings 12 rolls

Ingredients
  

  • 12–16 rice paper wrappers (I like the square kind)
  • 3 dozen edible flower blossoms (violas, pansies, or nasturtiums)
  • 1 cup cooked protein (tofu, shrimp, pork, or roasted squash)
  • 1 cup cooked rice vermicelli noodles
  • 1 cup mint leaves
  • 1 cup Thai basil leaves
  • 1 cup pickled daikon and carrots (recipe below)
  • 1 English cucumber, thinly sliced
  • 6 lettuce leaves, butter or leafy, torn into small pieces

Instructions
 

  • Gather and prepare all ingredients and place on a tray or bowls/plates as you set up your rolling station. A clean, sanitized counter or cutting board would be a nice surface to make your rolls.
  • Fill a wide, shallow dish with warm water, enough to submerge your rice paper into. Take 1 sheet of rice paper at a time and quickly submerge, no more than 5 seconds, so the rice paper is watered on all sides. Upon removing from water, shake off any excess then lay on rolling surface.
  • As the rice paper is softening, start adding ingredients from the center down, overlapping ingredients, and leaving at least 1 inch of rice paper remaining; this method works for both round and square rice papers. I like to start by placing the edible flowers down first so they will show when you make your salad roll.
  • Fold over right and left side of rice paper over laid out ingredients. Starting from the bottom, gently roll the rice paper away from you. Place on a plate and separate with herb leaves or a little neutral oil. Continue rolling until all ingredients are used up. Serve with Garlic and Cashew Sauce (recipe below).