What I like about rice paper roll is its light and fresh taste. Although it’s a pretty light ‘snack’ (or dinner... which is how we had it) in taste, it’s actually very filling, probably because of the noodles inside!
This time I made two flavours - prawn and beef. Prawn is easy, you just go and get the cooked prawns from the seafood store, for beef, I got the fatty Asian hotpot beef you get from the Asian grocery stores and marinated it with sesame oil, soy sauce and sugar and stir fried it. The fatty beef is just so lovely in taste, every bite you can feel the beefy oil run inside your mouth. However, what I found is you can’t have too much of it, because the amount of oil from the beef actually fills you up pretty quickly!
Making rice paper rolls is easy, you get the rice paper from Asian grocery stores, they come in a pack of hard semi-translucent hard sheets. All you need to do is soak it in warm water, once it’s all soften up, you can start rolling!!!! Add in some prawns, noodles, and mint, then roll it up and tuck the sides in! Easy!!!! Mint is the crucial part in these rolls! It helps to give that refreshing flavour! Cucumber is another thing that you might want to add into your rolls just to give it some crunch!
For the sauce, I was being lazy, and just bought the hoi sin sauce for dipping, which I found a bit too salty. If you fancy, you might want to create your own dipping sauce with fish sauce, brown sugar, lime juice, chili, and shredded carrots to give it an extra refreshing flavour!
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