Thai Spring Rolls From Quick Easy Thai Recipes

Steps:

• To Make the Sauce:.
• Pound all the ingredients together in a mortar with a pestle until smooth. (Alternatively, combine the ingredients in a food processor and pulse to form a smooth paste.) Heat the sauce in a wok over medium heat, bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer until thickened. Remove from the heat and cool.
• To Make the Spring Rolls:.
• Heat the oil in a wok over medium head. Add the jicama and oyster sauce and sauté for 30 seconds. Remove from the heat and set aside to cool.
• Soften a spring roll wrapper in warm water and lay out on a work surface. Put a little of the lettuce, bean sprouts, pork rind, fried shallots, and jicama in the center of the wrapper. Add a little sauce and top with a slice of roasted pork and 2-3 shrimp slices. Fold the bottom of the wrapper up and over the filling. fold the left and right sides in to create a package. Roll the package up toward the top and brush a little water on the top edges of the wrapper to stick the package together. Repeat until you have used up all the fillings. Cut the rolls in half and serve with the remaining sauce.
• Recipe courtesy of Quick and Easy Thai Food by Jean-Pierre Gabriel. Get the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Easy-Thai-Jean-Pierre-Gabriel/dp/0714873225.

Steps:

• Combine 1 cup peanut sauce, ginger, garlic, and 1 teaspoon soy sauce in a bowl. Add the chicken and mix until the chicken is coated. Place in refrigerator to marinate for 30 minutes.
• Heat 1 teaspoon peanut oil in a wok or skillet over medium heat. Cook the snow peas, bean sprouts and green onion in the oil until heated but still crisp, 3 to 4 minutes. Transfer to a large bowl. Mix in the watercress and cilantro. Use a vegetable peeler to have long slices of carrot into the watercress mixture. Drizzle 1 teaspoon soy sauce into the watercress mixture; toss to coat.
• Heat 1 teaspoon of oil to the wok or skillet. Cook the marinated chicken until no longer pink inside, about 10 minutes.
• Fill a large bowl with hot water. Dip wrappers one at a time into the water for about 2 seconds each. As wrappers are removed from the water, fill each with 2 large spoonfuls of the chicken and a small handful of the watercress mixture. Fold in two opposite ends of the wrapper to meet the filling. Then fold the bottom of the wrapper over the top of the filling and roll. Serve with 1/2 cup peanut sauce for dipping.

Steps:

• In a bowl of cool water, soak a wrapper until limp. Lay wrapper out flat. Place 1/6 of each ingredient down middle of wrapper, starting with lettuce. Fold over each end and tightly roll the wrapper around the contents, as if making a burrito. Moisten at seam; press to close.
• Lay on plate, cover with moist paper towel and refrigerate until ready to serve. Then slice in two and serve with Quick Thai Dipping Sauce, below, or peanut sauce.
• To make the Quick Thai Dipping Sauce, combine all ingredients in a small bowl.

Steps:

• Soak bean thread noodles in warm water for 10 minutes, drain, and cut into approximately 1" sections.
• Mix ground pork, noodles, vegetables, and seasonings in a large bowl.
• Place 2 tsp of filling in corner of spring roll wrap, roll to middle, fold in side corners, use the beaten egg to seal the top corner as you finish rolling the spring roll.
• Deep-fry the spring rolls in batches so that they don't stick together, and drain on papertowels. Serve while still hot with Sweet chili sauce for chicken (found in most Asian food stores).
• Alternatively, freeze the rolls prior to deep-frying. Fry when needed, and they will be just as good as if you had rolled them that day.