Salad Rolls, 2 dipping sauces, and green curry recipes

[brightbluegirl]

Recipes for all!



Salad Rolls
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I'm going to give you the recipe, which is how I made it on Saturday, and how I would change it next time. So, have fun:

2 ounces uncooked vermicelli
2 Tbsp lemon juice
2 Tbsp soy sauce (I used Braggs)
1 Tbsp minced fresh ginger
1 Tbsp palm sugar (you can use rgular sugar too)
1 tsp pepper
1 cup julienned carrot
1 cup mung bean sprouts
3 green onions, slivered and cut to 3 inch lengths
8 large lettuce leaves, torn in half
1 7 ounce package Thai-flavoured baked tofu, julienned (Frankly, next time I will use regular tofu, and I will cut it into thin slabs the size of my salad rolls, because the taste wasn't necessary, and slabs will help them hold together better)
1/2 cup chopped cilantro (next time I'm going to use mint)
16 8 1/2 inch rice paper wrappers (I only had smaller ones, so I made twice that)


1. Cook the vermicelli
2. Whisk together lemon juice, soy sauce, ginger, sugar, and pepper. Drain vermicelli and add to the mixture.
3. Place a dish towel on your work surface. Arrange other stuff around it.
4. Get a large shallow bowl of warm water.
5. To assemble rolls - place a rice paper wrapper in the bowl of water until it's completely submerged. The recipe says to leave it there for 30-60 seconds. DONT. Try 15-20. The wrapper shouldn't be hard, but it shouldn't be disintegrating either.
6. Place a piece of lettuce on it, then the tofu/vermicelli/sprouts/carrot/green onion/cilantro. Just put a little bit of each on it. You want to see the wrapper on all sides.
7. To close it, I found what worked best for me was - place the top town, then the right side over, then the left side over, then the bottom up.
8. Repeat until you're frustrated and swearing, and your guests think you're cute because for some reason they haven't heard you swear much before.



Sweet Chili Sauce
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1/2 cup palm sugar or other sweetener (any will do, but I happened to have palm sugar)
1/2 cup rice vinegar
2 Tbsp grated carrot
2 Tbsp grated cucumber
1/2 tsp dried red chili flakes (I used 2 tsp chili-garlic sauce, because I love that stuff)

Whisk together sugar and vinegar in a pan over medium high heat, until sweetener is dissolved. Stir in carrot, cucumber, and chili. Simmer 1 minute. Serve warm or cooled.



And my personal favourite dipping sauce for salad rolls:
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2 Tbsp sugar (or any sweetener)
2 Tbsp warm water
2 Tbsp fish sauce (I use soy sauce or Braggs instead)
2 Tbsp lemon or lime juice
1 Tbsp rice vinegar
1 green onion, chopped
1 small red chili, seeded and finely chopped**
1 clove garlic, crushed**
**(as you can imagine, I use the aforementioned chili-garlic sauce)

Combine sugar and water and stir until sugar dissolves. Add everything else. Stir well. Yum.




Thai Green Curry
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Well, you can make your own curry paste, or you can buy some pre-made. I've done both. If you'd like the curry paste recipe, let me know...

1 tbsp green curry paste
1 bunch spinach
1 red pepper, sliced
1 orange or yellow pepper, sliced
1 large onion, sliced or chopped
1 cup (or so) snow peas
2 cans coconut milk
1 block tofu (I skipped this on Saturday night, because we were having tofu in another dish)
1 can julienned bamboo
1 cup cashews
1/2 cup basil or thai basil
soy sauce to taste (for the sodium of it)

Heat a large frying pan over medium-high heat. Put the curry and coconut milk in the pan. Stir until the curry has dissolved. Add the vegetables in diminishing order of cooking times. So, onions and tofu first, peppers and snow peas next, bamboo and spinach last. Add the cashews whenever, really. Add the soy sauce to taste, and spinach last. Serve when the spinach is wilted, over rice or vermicelli. And YUM.

Comments

[ungratefulninja.livejournal.com]

Curry paste recipe please. The curry looks delicious.

[freakykitten.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I am teh slow:

Green Curry Paste
10 green chillies(jalapenos)
1 lemongrass stalk, sliced
1 tbs. chopped lime peel
10 thin slices galanga (thai ginger. I used regular ginger)
2 tbs. chopped cilantro stems (some people call it coriander or chinese parsley)
1 small green pepper, sliced
2 garlic cloves
5 shallots or 1/2 onion, sliced
1 tbs. ground coriander
1 tbs ground cumin
1 vegetable boullion cube

[asimplelife.livejournal.com]

O thank you thank you thank you infinity!

[freakykitten.livejournal.com]

In the green curry, you may want to experiment with adding a few drops to a few tsps of fish sauce. It rounds out the flavour in thai dishes...

and you're welcome. :D

[sinndar.livejournal.com]

Those all sound really good. Too bad there is no way in hell my hubby would eat that, which makes it hard for me to eat healthy sometimes. :/

[freakykitten.livejournal.com]

uh oh... how come there's no way in hell he'd eat that? don't tell me he's one of those "only eat veggies deep fried meat and potatoes" kind of man...

[loesaurus.livejournal.com]

I just copied that down. Yum!!!

[rennmaus.livejournal.com]

Thank you sooooo much!
I copied them at once and will try them out after my trip to Orlando!