Vietnamese Rice Paper Rolls

This is one of the easiest and most fun meals you can serve at a dinner party. You can keep it as simple as you like or complicate it with loads of different dipping sauces and condiments.

You can buy the rice paper rolls in most Asian stores and even in some supermarkets. What you want to wrap into them, is all up to you and your friends.

What I had on my plate

Pre-cooked rice noodles
Pineapple
Loads of herbs ( ex. coriander, mint, thai basil, noo gai)
Scallions
Chili
Ginger
Lemongrass
Beansprouts
Cooked tiger prawns

You can use your own imagination. As I had this as a side dish, I didn't want to overcomplicate it. If this is the only thing you are serving you can add other proteins of your choice ( fish, chicken, beef).

Just set all the ingredients on the table. Have a bowl of water in the middle o the table to make the rice papers soft. You don't need to soak them. Just dip them in for a little while to make them easier to work with.

The rest is up to your friends. Let everyone dip their own rice paper in the water and add the ingredients they like.

You can eat them like so or dip them in a variety of sauces (ex. peanut satay sauce,  chili fishsauce, sweet child sauce etc.)

My favourite is just a simple sauce made of soy sauce, fishssauce (half and half), chili, lime zest and juice and sugar. You can make the sauce as spicy, salty or sweet as you like.

Fill, Roll, Dip, Bite =YUM

Also these are nice as a snack at a buffet or a picnic if you roll them in advance. Really easy to eat on the go :)