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    Home » In the kitchen » Vietnamese Rice Paper Rolls + Dipping Sauces

    Vietnamese Rice Paper Rolls + Dipping Sauces

    Published: Feb 24, 2016 · Modified: Apr 23, 2019 by Laura · This post may contain affiliate links.

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    Fast, fresh & full of flavour, these Vietnamese style rice paper rolls with both sweet chilli and traditional dipping sauces are the perfect healthy lunch, snack or dinner option.

    Fast, fresh & full of flavour, these Vietnamese style rice paper rolls with both sweet chilli and traditional dipping sauces are the perfect healthy lunch, snack or dinner option.

    In case you missed it, Josh & I took a trip to Vietnam last year. We travelled from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, saw amazing sights, had my wedding dress made, met incredible people and most importantly...ate some of the best food I've ever eaten in my life. We both fell head over heels in love with the whole country. Unfortunately we can't just pop over whenever we would like so the next best thing is to bring a taste of Vietnam here.

    I've been making these rice paper rolls and the 2 delicious dipping sauces that go perfectly with them for a while now. They were my first attempt at Vietnamese style food at home and are still one of my favourites. The ingredient list is minimal and once you get the hang of the rice paper they are a breeze to make. Throw in a couple of tasty dipping sauces and you have a complete and ridiculously healthy & satisfying meal.

    I tend to make mine vegetarian, solely because I don't tend to have cooked chicken, pork or prawns on hand and if I'm making these, I'm generally too lazy to cook any! Plus I had the dilemma the other day of not actually knowing what sort of prawns to buy to put in these as I'm a recent convert to seafood...Fresh? Frozen? Still with all the spiny and feeler-y things on? Um, help! I stuck with vegetarian.

    Fast, fresh & full of flavour, these Vietnamese style rice paper rolls are the perfect lunch or healthy dinner option.

    The most time consuming part is preparing the vegetables. I slice the peppers, cucumber, carrots or whatever I feel like while I'm soaking the rice noodles so that I can have a little production line when it comes to assembling the rolls. Once the noodles are ready I stir chopped fresh mint & coriander through them - they add a really fresh flavour to the rolls.

    The rice paper wrappers can be tricky - they feel weird and can be quite sticky but play around with them until you know how to best handle them. The key is to just keep practicing - the first rolls I made were a mess and totally fell to pieces, but after I made them a few times I figured it out. Mine are still not perfect, but they stay together which is the main thing! Just roll em like a burrito - fillings on the bottom, fold the wrapper up over the fillings, fold in the sides and then roll it up tight. The wrapper will stick to itself at the top.

    Fast, fresh & full of flavour, these Vietnamese style rice paper rolls are the perfect lunch or healthy dinner option.

    Fast, fresh & full of flavour, these Vietnamese style rice paper rolls are the perfect lunch or healthy dinner option.

    Fast, fresh & full of flavour, these Vietnamese style rice paper rolls are the perfect lunch or healthy dinner option.

    Fast, fresh & full of flavour, these Vietnamese style rice paper rolls are the perfect lunch or healthy dinner option.

    As much as I love the freshness of the rice paper rolls, the thing that makes them truly amazing is the dipping sauce!

    I have 2 dipping sauces that I use - one is a sweet chilli sauce and the other is Nuoc Cham, the traditional Vietnamese dipping sauce that accompanies almost every meal in Vietnam. It is out of this world good. Traditionally it has chilli flakes or sliced chilli in it but I am a complete softie so I leave that out. Feel free to add it for heat though!

    Fast, fresh & full of flavour, these Vietnamese style rice paper rolls are the perfect lunch or healthy dinner option.

    I love making these rolls to have with dinner or to take as a healthy & delicious week day work lunch. They're so summery & the flavours take me right back to the streets of Hanoi!

    Fast, fresh & full of flavour, these Vietnamese style rice paper rolls are the perfect lunch or healthy dinner option.

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    Fast, fresh & full of flavour, these Vietnamese style rice paper rolls are the perfect lunch or healthy dinner option.

    Vietnamese Rice Paper Rolls

    Fast, fresh & full of flavour, these Vietnamese style rice paper rolls with both sweet chilli and traditional dipping sauces are the perfect healthy lunch, snack or dinner option.
    5 from 4 votes
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    Prep Time: 30 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 30 minutes minutes
    Servings: 12 rolls
    Author: Laura

    Ingredients

    • 100 grams rice noodles vermicelli
    • 12 rice paper wrappers
    • Chopped veges - peppers carrots, cucumber, etc
    • Chopped fresh herbs mint & coriander
    • Chicken/pork/prawns optional

    Dipping sauces:

      Vietnamese dipping sauce (Nuoc Cham)

      • 2 tablespoon fish sauce
      • 2 teaspoon rice wine vinegar
      • Juice of ½ lime
      • 1 teaspoon sugar
      • 1 garlic clove finely chopped
      • Optional: chilli flakes or a finely chopped chilli

      Sweet chilli dipping sauce

      • 2 tablespoon fish sauce
      • 2 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
      • 2 tablespoon sweet chilli sauce

      Instructions

      Dipping sauces:

      • For each dipping sauce, whisk all ingredients together.

      Rice paper rolls

      • Cook the noodles according to the packet directions. While doing this, prep the veges - chop them into matchstick size pieces.
      • Chop the fresh herbs and mix them in with the noodles.

      To assemble the rolls

      • Prepare the rolling surface - I like to make my rolls on a clean, damp tea towel as the paper can be delicate and they don't tend to stick to the tea towel.
      • Prepare the wrapper - take a bowl large enough to fit a rice paper wrapper in, and fill it with lukewarm water. Take 1 rice paper wrapper and soak it in the water for about 30 seconds until it starts to feel soft. Remove from the water and place on the prepared tea towel or other flat surface e.g. a chopping board.
      • Fill the wrapper - add noodles, veges and meat (if using) to the bottom third of the wrapper.
      • Roll it - just like a burrito - fold the bottom over the fillings, fold in the sides and then roll it up tight
      • Repeat with remaining rice paper wrappers.
      • Serve with dipping sauces. Any leftover rolls, store in the fridge for a couple of days, but they are best eaten that day.

      Nutrition

      Calories: 95kcal | Carbohydrates: 19g | Protein: 2g | Cholesterol: 1mg | Sodium: 623mg | Potassium: 32mg | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 13mg | Iron: 0.7mg
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      1. Kim @zonktdeigns says

        August 08, 2016 at 10:45 pm

        5 stars
        oh yum.
        I love vietnamese food, i had a dear friend I used to work with that I'd beg to get her mum to bring in her pho soup or anything and she was totally anti her own cuisine and just wanted to eat western food. lol

        As for the rolls they look delicious, I too find it a little hard with pre-cooked anything in my house, so I used chicken schnitzel last time with the kids was a real win!

        Thanks for linking up to Your Weekly Feed as always. xx

        Reply
        • Laura says

          August 09, 2016 at 6:31 pm

          Ohhhh pho is my favourite!! I love all things Vietnamese too. Yum, chicken schnitzel would have been so good! 🙂

          Reply
      2. Shari from GoodFoodWeek says

        August 05, 2016 at 3:46 pm

        I love rice paper rolls. I am always interested to see what people use at their dipping sauces - as most people's filling options are practically the same. Dipping sauces are always varied.

        Reply
        • Laura says

          August 09, 2016 at 6:26 pm

          I hear ya! I'll eat these rolls filled with whatever but if the dipping sauce is no good, I'm not interested! These 2 are awesome...I hope you like them 🙂

          Reply
      3. Jayne says

        March 24, 2016 at 11:42 am

        I have not made rice paper rolls for ages - you have inspired me Laura!! Live the dipping sauce options too

        Reply
        • Laura says

          March 25, 2016 at 10:07 am

          I quite often go ages without making them and forget how much I love them! The dipping sauces are definitely what makes them so good!

          Reply
      4. Krissy @ Pretty Wee Things says

        March 23, 2016 at 10:29 pm

        YUM! These look delicious. I absolutely love rice paper rolls. And the vietnamese dipping sauce sounds delicious! I haven't tried it before so I will definitely have to give it a go. DELISH!

        Reply
        • Laura says

          March 24, 2016 at 6:27 am

          Krissy, I really think half the reason I love rice paper rolls so much is because of the dipping sauce...you will have to try it 🙂

          Reply
      5. Vicki @ Boiled Eggs & Soldiers says

        March 21, 2016 at 12:12 am

        Yum, we are big fans of rice paper rolls and I'm loving all your dipping sauces too. Thanks for sharing on YWF too.

        Reply
        • Laura says

          March 21, 2016 at 6:28 am

          Thanks Vicki! I love these for a quick and healthy work day lunch...or a lazy dinner!

          Reply
      6. Nancy | Plus Ate Six says

        March 20, 2016 at 10:09 pm

        5 stars
        It's great isn't it when you come back from your travels with inspiration. I love Nuoc Cham and I'd be piling on the chili I'm afraid to the point where I get chilli hiccups 🙂

        Reply
        • Laura says

          March 21, 2016 at 6:27 am

          So great!! I wish I could pile on the chilli! I love the flavour but I just can't handle it!

          Reply

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