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Vietnamese Home Cooking Recipes - Gỏi Cuốn

When the 5th pandemic wave raged the town leaving most of us in WFH mode, the frequency of cooking at home is more than ever. Take this as a chance to polish your culinary skills and enjoy the art of cooking. Here's a simple Vietnamese home cooking recipe for the newbies.

Gỏi Cuốn means rice paper salad rolls and it is one of the most iconic and well-known dishes of Vietnam. It can be a snack or a light meal that is super nutritious and healthy as it's loaded with fresh veggies, herbs and protein. The fillings combination are countless, you can choose your favorite protein based on your preferences. Or, you could simply follow our recipe below to make a traditional one.


Let's get started!


Ingredients
  • Rice paper sheet

  • Rice vermicelli

  • Lettuce

  • Herbs of your choice (suggested to have mint, cilantro and Chinese chives)

  • Pork belly

  • Shrimp (white shrimp or tiger shrimp)

You could get most of the ingredients in a Chinese supermarket or local wet market.



Steps

Preparation Work

  1. Boil the pork belly and shrimp to well done and cut the pork belly into thin slices after cooling down

  2. Cook the rice vermicelli according to the package's instruction, then rinse and drain to cool

  3. Wash the lettuce and herbs and dry them thoroughly

  4. Prepare a bowl of lukewarm drinking water






Assemble

  1. Quickly dip the rice paper into water (make sure don't dip it too long, or else the rice paper will get too soggy and sticky)

  2. First, add a thin layer of cooked rice vermicelli at the bottom of the rice paper

  3. Second, add lettuce and herbs on top of the rice vermicelli

  4. Finally, add a row of pork belly slices and shrimp up against the rice vermicelli





Time to Wrap

  1. Keep all ingredients with similar length and width

  2. Fold the left and right sides of the rice paper inwards

  3. Give a little pressure and roll it upwards from the bottom till the end

  4. We're done!







Serve and enjoy


Gỏi Cuốn and dipping sauce is just like bread and butter, a delicious dipping sauce can escalate the flavor of fillings. You could go with appetizing fish sauce or tangy peanut dipping sauce. Refer to Vietnamese Sauces & Side Dishes 101 blog to pick the right one.





Gỏi Cuốn is an extraordinary dish to enjoy in all seasons. Except for the classic pork belly and shrimp combination, BEP has added vegetarian versions and new twists like soft shell crab and avocado.


Visit us to savor more variations of rice paper salad rolls!








Recipe courtesy of Hungry Huy.

Image of assemble & image of wrapping process courtesy of Hungry Huy

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