Summer Rolls

Summer Rolls are very light, healthy and delicious. These rolls can be made with chicken, seafood, tofu or just vegetables. They are perfect for party snacks, starters or just a light snack.

To prepare the chicken: Brush the chicken breasts with desired spices (I used paprika, salt, pepper and oriental spice mix).

Fry the chicken in vegetable or olive oil for about 4-5 minutes each side, or until golden brown and cooked through.

Take the chicken breasts out onto a plate and allow to cool down.

Once cooled down, cut the chicken into strips (long side) of desired thickness (I had them at about 0.5 – 1 cm thick).

To prepare the glass noodles: Prepare the glass noodles according to the instructions on the pack. Usually it’s something like this: place the dries glass noodles in a deep bowl, fill the bowl with hot water and let the noodles stand between 5-10 minutes. Then just drain them and they are good to go.

Gather the ingredients and place them within reach of your roll assembling area.

Take a deep dish, or a baking tray (I used a crepe pan), wide enough to fit rice paper. Fill with cold water, just to cover the whole surface.

Take 1 sheet of rice paper and put it into the water for about 5-10 seconds. It will become transparent, but still stiff enough to hold shape.

Put the wet rice paper on a working surface, (I used a wooden chopping board, rice paper doesn’t stick to it that much. But you can try out different surfaces and pick which one is working for you).

Place the salad leaves, 1 or 2 mint leaves (depending on how big they are), 1 or 2 basil leaves (again, depending on how big they are), 1 or 2 strips of chicken, a bit of soaked glass noodles and a bit of soy bean sprouts in the middle of the soaked rice sheet.

Start wrapping, and half way through pull the sides of the rice paper inward to cover the sides and make like an envelope. Try to make the roll tight, but careful not to break the rice paper.

Continue with the remaining rice paper sheets.

Serve with sweet chili sauce and hoisin – peanut sauce (add crushed peanut to hoisin sauce and mix). Enjoy!

Note: these rolls can also be done with shrimps, tofu, just vegetables and whatever else you like. The are pretty universal. However do not use this rice paper for fried spring rolls, you need a different kind of wrapper for those.