Summer Rolls Recipe: This is How You Succeed with the Dish

Summer rolls (Gỏi Cuốn) are the ideal snack for hot summer days. How to prepare the Vietnamese rolls plus two delicious recipe ideas can be found in this guide.

Recipe for summer rolls: Light cuisine with rice paper

Summer rolls can be described as the Vietnamese variant of the wrap. The basis is rice paper, which is filled with ingredients and rolled into a small package.

• Rice paper consists of soaked rice flour, which is rolled out wafer-thin and dried. The rice paper does not have a strong taste of its own, which makes it ideal for filling with all kinds of delicacies such as vegetables and chicken, meat, or shrimp.
• It is important to roll up the filled packages correctly. Before you fill the rice paper, you should immerse it in water. This makes it more flexible and easier to fold. Put the filling in the middle of the round leaves.
• Be careful not to put too much filling on the paper. Otherwise, the thin rice casing may tear or burst.
• Now place the lower edge of the rice paper over the Now you have to roll the roll up from the bottom with a little pressure.

Summer rolls recipe with meat

Actually, you don’t need a recipe for the filling of a summer roll. You can fill the rice sheets with rice noodles, lettuce, herbs, meat, shrimp, and spices as you like. We have selected two recipe ideas for you as inspiration. Here comes a variant with fried pork belly meat.

• Ingredients for four people: a pack of rice noodles, iceberg lettuce, some fresh coriander, a piece of pork belly (1.5 kg), a pack of bean sprouts, fresh mint, eight sheets of rice paper, salt, pepper, soy sauce, vegetable fat for frying and marinating
• Rub the pork belly with vegetable fat and season with salt and pepper. Set the meat aside for 30 minutes and let the marinade soak in.
• Then prepare the meat in the oven at around 180 degrees top and bottom heat. Leave it there for 1 to 1.5 hours to cook through. In the next step, the meat goes back into the pan, where it is fried until crisp. Cut the piece of meat into thin slices.
• Cook the rice noodles according to package instructions and let cool. Then wash the lettuce, bean sprouts, and herbs, and portion everything so that it fits well on the rice paper.
• Place two moistened rice sheets on top of each other and add the individual ingredients including the soy sauce. Then roll up as described above.