In this article about the recipe for healthy Vietnamese spring rolls: Healthy Vietnamese Spring Rolls 🌶 Actually more of a how-to than a recipe, since you can fill the ready-made rice papers with whatever you like or have at home! These healthy Vietnamese spring rolls are much better for your body than the fried version and at least just as tasty. Or even tastier, we think. We made them with carrot, cucumber, bell pepper, mango, and peanuts. Some filled with tempeh, others with chicken. Serve with peanut dressing or a bowl of soy sauce! 🥜
Recipe for healthy Vietnamese spring rolls explained
Ingredients for +/- 16 healthy Vietnamese spring rolls with chicken:
– 16 rice papers
– 2 carrots
– 2 bell peppers
– 1 cucumber
– 1 mango
– 300-400 grams of chicken thigh
– handful of peanuts
– 1 red chili
Preparation:
1. Cut all the vegetables and the mango into strips of the same size.
2. Marinate the chicken (for example with paprika powder, chili powder, pepper, and salt) and cook it until done.
3. Cut the chicken into strips as well. Then chop the red chili and peanuts finely.
4. Soak a rice paper in warm water (+/- 1 min), place the rice paper on a plate and pile the ingredients just below the center of the rice paper.
5. Fold the bottom of the rice paper over the ingredients. Now fold the sides inward and roll the spring roll tightly. Repeat until all ingredients are used up.
For the sauce, mix the following ingredients:
– 2 tbsp peanut butter
– splash of soy sauce
– clove of garlic
– tsp sambal
– 100 ml milk (or water)
– half a lemon
Nutritional values per spring roll:
Calories: 74
Protein: 6.8 grams
Fats: 2.6 grams
Carbohydrates: 4.4 grams
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