I have tried Spring Rolls several places, and I am a big fan. When I ran across this recipe, I was thought, that's cool - I'd like to try that. When I went to the Dekalb Farmers Market and actually saw the rice paper wrappers, I was like.. OH YES! I am totally doing it. So that's what I did tonight.
Ingredients:
1 lb peeled shrimp
Olive Oil
S&P
Rice papers - I only used 5
Some bean sprouts
Some cilantro leaves
Some sliced carrots
1/2 jalapenos, thinly sliced
1 cucumber (I was out so I didn't use one)
The Sauce:
1/4 cup peanut butter
1 tbsp soy sauce
5 tbsp water
1 tbsp sugar
The How To:
Preheat oven to 400.Place shrimp on a sheet pan, drizzle with olive oil and S&P.
Cook for about 6 minutes - until shrimp are cooked through.
Clean off some place to make your rolls
Make a pile of shrimp, sprouts, cilantro, carrots, and jalapenos (think of an assembly line)
Get a clean, damp kitchen towel laid out to actually assemble your rolls
Fill a pan large enough for the wrappers with warm water
One wrapper at a time, submerge the wrapper in the water for about 15 seconds
Remove the wrapper and place it on the towel
Lay the shrimp, and other ingredients in the wrapper and wrap it up
For the sauce, just whisk all the ingredients together and set aside for dipping
I knew this might not turn out well when I told Will we were having spring rolls and he had never heard of it. I mean, the rice wrappers are sorta weird if you haven't ever had them before. Will seriously looked sorta scared before he tried this one. The first time he touched the rice paper he said (and I quote) "Umm... I think this is what an alien fetus would feel like." Great. Isn't that what you want your dinner to feel like?
So, yes he HATED this dish. I think that he would say this is the worst one yet.
But, my opinion..
The rolls tasted exactly like when I have ordered them in a restaurant (woot woot for me!) and I would absolutely make these again.
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