Recipe ~ Vietnamese

Vietnamese Grilled Shrimp on Rice Noodles

Ingredients:

1/4 cup bean sprouts

3 tbsp roasted crushed peanuts

3 Tbsp scallion oil

(In hot saucepan, add 1 to 2 tsp oil and chopped scallions. Cook until warm.

or In microwave, add scallions and 2 tbsp oil in a bowl and heat on medium for 1  to 2 min)

1/8 cup chopped mint and cilantro chopped

1 cup of boiled rice noodles

(In boiling water, add pinch of salt & dry rice noodles. Boil for 5-7min, strain with cold water and serve at room temperature)

1/8 cup sliced and chopped cucumbers

FISH LIME SAUCE (for 4-6 servings)

1/4 cup fish sauce

1 1/8 cup water or soda water

1/4 cup sugar

2/3 tbsp lime juice

Combine and add extra water and lime juice to taste.

1/8 cup julienned pickled carrot

4 poached shrimp - and grilled

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Vietnamese Shrimp Roll Ingredients

The rolls can be made with various proteins like duck, beef, but today I'm going to show you how to make shrimp rolls. To make the shrimp rolls you will need, for each roll:

• a leaf of lettuce, use Boston or green leaf
• about 4 poached shrimp, shelled and de-veined
• a toothpick to hold the roll together
• about 4-5 leaves of mint and cilantro

Prepare the Rice Noodles

• 1/8 cup of boiled rice noodles, you buy from any Asian grocery stores

Just like pasta, you bring to boil a big pot of water, add a little bit of salt into the water, put the noodles in, boil for about 5 to 7 minutes, poor the noodles out into a calendar, rinse the noodles out with cold water to stop the cooking, and leave it dry, and serve it at room temperature.

Slice the Cucumbers

• A slice of cucumber

To prepare the cucumbers, use a mandolin and slice like shown here.

Julienne and Pickle the Carrots

• 1/8 of a cup of carrot, julienned and pickled

To prepare the pickled carrots, first clean the carrot, us ea mandolin, julienne it, use salt, a bit of sugar, and vinegar, rice or white vinegar will work, and mix it all together. Leave the carrots to be pickled for about 10 to 15 minutes before using.

Vietnamese Spring Roll Peanut Sauce

To make the peanut sauce, for one cup of sauce, you need:

• 2 tbsp Hoisin sauce
• 3 tbsp smooth peanut butter
• 3-4 tbsp water

Put it in a sauce pan and bring to boil. Let it cool down before serving.

Serve the Vietnamese Spring Rolls

To serve, you can add toasted peanuts and a pinch of hot sauce. With the ingredients prepared, take the leaf of lettuce on a plate, put on the rice noodles, pickled carrots, mint and cilantro, shrimp, roll it up, then place the cucumber slice beneath the roll, rolling it again and put the tooth pick through the roll. And there you have the shrimp roll. You can use various other proteins, like grilled chicken, grilled beef, roasted duck breast, or even vegetarian. 

Grilled Shrimp and Noodles Ingredients

The boiled rice noodle dish is a very popular dish in Vietnam. For this you are going to need about:

• 1/4 cup bean sprouts
• 3 tbsp. roasted crushed peanuts

Make the Scallion Oil

• 3 tbsp. scallion oil

To make the scallion oil, use the green part of the scallion and chop them up. You can either heat up a saucepan until it is really hot, add a little bit of oil and then add the scallion, toss is quickly and take it off the stove - or you can put the chopped scallions into a bowl, add oil, and put it in the microwave for about a minute and a half to two, and you have scallion oil. 

You will also need about:

• 1/8 cup chopped mint and cilantro

Boil the Rice Noodles

• 1 cup of boiled rice noodles, you buy from any Asian grocery stores

Just like pasta, you bring to boil a big pot of water, add a little bit of salt into the water, put the noodles in, boil for about 5 to 7 minutes, poor the noodles out into a calendar, rinse the noodles out with cold water to stop the cooking, and leave it dry, and serve it at room temperature.

Slice the Cucumbers

• about 1/8 of a cup of cucumbers

To prepare the cucumbers, use a mandolin and slice like shown here.

Mix Fish Lime Sauce

To make the fish lime sauce you can buy the fish sauce from Asian grocery stores, and lime juice, bit of sugar, a bit of water, and mix all the ingredients together to make fish lime.

Prepare Pickled Carrots

• 1/8 of a cup of carrot, julienned and pickled

To prepare the pickled carrots, first clean the carrot, us ea mandolin, julienne it, use salt, a bit of sugar, and vinegar, rice or white vinegar will work, and mix it all together. Leave the carrots to be pickled for about 10 to 15 minutes before using.

Grill the Shrimp

You will also need about 4-5 poached, shelled shrimp. With the shrimp, put them on the grill for about a couple of minutes on each side, take them off and leave them aside.

Assemble the Grilled Shrimp Over Rice Noodles

To put the dish together, put the noodles in a bowl, adding sprouts, pickled carrots, cucumbers, mint and cilantro, sprinkle scallion oil on top of the noodles, place the shrimps on top and sprinkle the fish lime sauce and finally add the toasted peanuts. There you have the grilled shrimp on rice noodles. This dish can also be made using beef, chicken or any other topping that you would like. 

Vietnamese Salad Ingredients

• about 1/2 cup julienned carrots
• 1/4 cup of mushroom, you can either use canned mushroom or fresh shiitake mushrooms
• 4 tbsp toasted peanuts or sesame seeds depending on your taste
• 2 cups of julienned taro root
• 1 cake of tofu
• 1/2 cup watercress
• 1/2 cup bean sprouts
• 3 tbsp soy sauce
• a bit of vinegar
• a pinch of sugar

Prepare the Vietnamese Salad

First of all to prepare the carrot you have to julienne the carrot. Use a mandolin and julienne the carrot and the taro. To prepare the tofu, slice it up, and put it on the sauce pan with oil, wait until its really hot, put the tofu in and cook until its yellow. Next add the mushroom, julienned taro and carrots to the tofu, just lightly cook the mixture. Take them off the stove, in a mixing bowl add bean sprouts, watercress, soy sauce, and toss it all up.

Serve the Vietnamese Salad

Sprinkle toasted peanuts or sesame depending on your taste.