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Light of an Angel
03-01-2006, 01:22 PM
Hello dear friends :p

This recipe is one of my favourite! Thought you may like it too! :)

Thai Spring Rolls with Spicy Peanut Dipping Sauce

Unlike deep-fried spring rolls, these fresh-tasting spring rolls are uncooked. The rice wrappers are brittle and fragile when you buy them, but often soften quickly in water just prior to use. Vary the filling ingredients according to personal preference.

8 spring roll wrappers

Filling

1 cup shredded Napa cabbage
¾ cup shredded carrots
1 small red bell pepper, seeded and cut into thin strips
½ cup fresh bean sprouts
½ cup chopped fresh cilantro or Thai basil leaves

Spicy Peanut Dipping Sauce

½ cup smooth natural peanut butter
1 tblsp minced garlic
¼ cup tamari or other soy sauce
¼ water, or more as needed
1 tblsp rice vinegar
1 teaspoon Asian chili paste
1 teaspoon sugar or natural sweetener
2 tablsp finely chopped fresh cilantro leaves

1. In a small bowl or food processor combine the peanut butter, garlic, tamari, water, vinegar, chili paste and sugar until well blended. Taste and adjust the seasonings. Add more water if the sauce is too thick.
2. Use at once, or cover and refrigerate until ready to use. Stir in the cilantro just before using. Stored this sauce will keep for 4 to 5 days.

To make spring rolls

1. Dip a wrapper into a shallow bowl of warm water to soften. Remove from the water and place on a piece of plastic wrap that has been placed on a flat work surface.
2. To make the filling, arrange a small amount of each ingredient on the bottom third of the wrapper. Bring the bottom edge over the filling and fold in the sides tightly. Dab the top edge with water and roll up tightly, using the plastic wrap to help you roll. Place the roll seam side down on a serving platter. Repeat with the remaining wrappers and filling ingredients.
3. Serve the rolls with small bowls of the sauce. These spring rolls are best eaten right away but will keep for a few hours in the fridge if wrapped tightly in plastic wrap.

Enjoy!

Revvell
03-01-2006, 01:25 PM
I've been curious as I love Thai food ~ if the wrappers are raw and/or do you know how to make them?

If not, I'm wondering if thinly sliced and marinated turnips could be used in place.

Thank you for sharing one of my most fave foods. :)

Revvell

Light of an Angel
03-01-2006, 02:14 PM
That's great Revell! I love Thai too :)

I buy the rice wraps in an Asian market. They are made of rice fower, water and sea salt. You can substitute them with turnips if you wish as long as you can roll them :) Big salad leaves work well too! Sprinkle some lime juice on your ingredients, wrap and pop in your mouth! This will provide an experience like a burst of fireworks :)

Enjoy :)

Revvell
03-01-2006, 02:17 PM
Ohhhh, that sounds soooo good! Thank you for the options. :)

Rev

RawTruth
03-01-2006, 02:17 PM
This recipe is familiar. I think I have it in my collection but it's tucked away right now. Where did you get it from?

BTW, you can make wraps by blending coconut meat with the coconut juice (young Thai coconut) and pouring onto teflex and dehydrating.

karenisraw
03-01-2006, 04:26 PM
Revvell,

The raw food restaraunt that I go to, (Ecopolitan), uses thin slices of Daikon radishes to use as the wrapper for spring rolls.

k
:)

Light of an Angel
03-01-2006, 04:38 PM
Raw Truth I got this from my friend some time ago :) We make it all the time! It's so yummy! We got it from a recipe book called "Vegan Planet" :)

Great about the dehadrated coconut wraps! Thanks for sharing :)

RawTruth
03-01-2006, 04:40 PM
. . . and at "my" raw food restaraunt, they use thinly-sliced zucchini strips (wrapped cylindrally).

I really like the idea of the coconut wraps, though, since they're so much like the rice paper wraps.

Sheryl
03-01-2006, 06:59 PM
I LOVE the idea of young coconut wrappers - they have photos of it Raw Food Real World and it is so beautiful!!

They do make raw rice paper wraps - they fall apart a little easier but they are avaialble. Cilantro's in San Diego uses them (I was suspicious that they were raw and talked to the chef).

These look yummy!
Sheryl

RawTruth
03-02-2006, 12:11 AM
.. . . anyone's intelligence -- as y'all could figure this out for yourself, but, yummy or not, this recipe isn't raw -- and it's not just the wrappers.

However, with substitutions, it could be raw -- as in raw almond butter for the peanut butter, Nama Shoyu for the soy sauce, agave nectar for the sugar, chopped fresh Thai chilies for the chili paste -- definitely can be done.

Anyone who tried this, please report back. The recipe I'd referred to was raw, but I'm just not finding it at the moment.

Ah well ... keep on playing with your food, folks!

mandarin honey
03-02-2006, 07:05 AM
This recipe is familiar. I think I have it in my collection but it's tucked away right now. Where did you get it from?

BTW, you can make wraps by blending coconut meat with the coconut juice (young Thai coconut) and pouring onto teflex and dehydrating.

This sounds really good. Oh the ideas I'm having now... :D Thanks for this tip Raw Truth.

Abigail
03-02-2006, 07:27 PM
This is a great recipe and a great way to get your veggies in. But commercial Thai (or Vietnamese) spring roll wrappers are by no means raw. They're made out of rice flour, salt, and water, cooked into glutinous paste. Then the paste gets smeared onto round templates then either sun-dried (traditional method) or factory-dried. They can be reconstituted without heating or cooking, but that does not mean they're raw.

Unfried wrappers sure are healthier than fried, though.

RawTruth
03-03-2006, 02:27 AM
T. . . spring roll wrappers are by no means raw. ... and as previously stated, neither are other ingredients.

blessed
03-03-2006, 03:50 AM
:D :D
Hi Raw Truth,
In love more than ever with being raw. The recipe was not in Alissia's book do you have that recipe handy for the coconut wraps?
Thanks so much.

Ann

theresaann
03-03-2006, 02:08 PM
rawtruth~thanks for the coconut wrapper idea!! that's a great one-can't wait to try it~

Blissed
03-03-2006, 02:33 PM
with the raw substitutes, this sounds rawsome!

RawTruth
03-03-2006, 05:01 PM
:D :D
Hi Raw Truth,
In love more than ever with being raw. The recipe was not in Alissia's book do you have that recipe handy for the coconut wraps?
Thanks so much.

AnnNope! It's just blending together the coconut meat with enough coconut water/juice (from the Thai young coconut you opened to scoop the meat from) to make it a consistency to pour/spread in to a round shape onto your teflex sheet. Fly by the seat of your pants on this one!!

So glad you're sooooo raw!