Vietnamese Cold Summer Rolls

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By Germaine Loc Swanson

These casual rolls are filled with tofu and caller vegetables, but they diagnostic different ready-to-eat ingredients arsenic well, including cooked chicken, shrimp, saccharine potato, legume sprouts, vermicelli atom noodles and/or asparagus. The accompanying dipping condiment has a creamy coconut undertone and conscionable a hint of heat.

The instrumentality to speedy assembly is placing the filling wrong a lettuce leafage that past goes wrong the wrapper. If you usage romaine lettuce leaves, trim immoderate of the heavy stem disconnected the backmost of the leafage earlier filling, truthful that it’s not rather truthful bulky wrong the roll.

Note: To marque thinh, a Vietnamese seasoning made from atom that is toasted successful a adust cookware and past crushed to a powder: In a large, adust skillet implicit medium-high vigor adhd 1/2 cupful uncooked jasmine rice. Cook, stirring oregon shaking the cookware often, until the atom is fragrant and airy golden, astir 10 minutes. Transfer the substance to a nutrient processor and grind to the consistency of coarse-grain cornmeal. Let chill completely. Store successful a jar with a tightfitting lid astatine country somesthesia for up to 1 month.

Where to buy: Thinh tin beryllium recovered successful Asian market stores, but is casual to marque astatine location (see Note). Laab-namtok is simply a Thai seasoning blend of roasted atom powder, chile powder, ail powder, dried shallots and different spices. It tin beryllium recovered astatine Asian markets oregon online, but you tin substitute your favourite chile pulverization seasoning.

Make ahead: The rolls tin beryllium assembled an refrigerated up to 1 time successful advance.

Storage: Refrigerate the dipping condiment for up to 3 days. Microwave connected LOW for 30 seconds to loosen it up, and disturbance earlier serving.

Adapted from a look by cooking teacher and erstwhile Washington restaurateur Germaine Loc Swanson.

Ingredients

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Servings: 5-10 (makes 10 ample rolls)

For the rolls

1 cupful carrot matchsticks (2 to 3 inches long)
1 cupful peeled jicama matchsticks (2 to 3 inches long)
1 cupful reddish doorbell capsicum matchsticks (2 to 3 inches long)
1 tablespoonful thinh (roasted atom powder; spot Note)
1 spoon laab-namtok seasoning, oregon much arsenic needed
Ten (10-inch) circular Vietnamese atom insubstantial disks oregon spring-roll wrappers
1 cupful caller basil leaves, preferably Thai basil
1 cupful caller cilantro leaves and tender stems
2 reddish radishes, thinly sliced
1/2 cupful roasted sesame seeds (may substitute a substance of achromatic and achromatic sesame seeds)
10 leaves Bibb oregon romaine lettuce, washed and dried
8 ounces smoked tofu, chopped into bladed strips 4 to 5 inches long
1 English cucumber, chopped into 4- to 5-inch matchsticks
8 ounces enoki mushrooms

For the sauce

1/2 cupful well-stirred coconut milk
1 spoon chopped garlic
1/4 cups crunchy peanut butter
1 spoon low-sodium soy sauce
Water (optional)
1/2 teaspoons chili-garlic sauce, specified arsenic sambal oelek
2 teaspoons chopped roasted unsalted peanuts, for garnish

Nutritional Facts

Per rotation with 1 tablespoonful of condiment per roll

Calories
180
Fat
9 g
Saturated Fat
2 g
Carbohydrates
19 g
Sodium
240 mg
Protein
9 g
Fiber
4 g
Sugar
3 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from a look by cooking teacher and erstwhile Washington restaurateur Germaine Loc Swanson.

Tested by Kristen Hartke.

Published June 2, 2019

Updated March 16, 2026