Vegan Summer Rolls and Peanut Sauce

Vegan Shrimp Summer Rolls

 

Ingredients

 

Summer Rolls (yields 3 Rolls)

 

-6 Vietnamese Rice Papers 

-9 Vegan Shrimp

-1 cup thin Rice Noodles

-2 tablespoons Sesame Oil

-1 tablespoon Garlic, minced

-1/2 sheet Nori, ripped into 3 rectangles 

-Black Pepper, to taste

-Seasoning Salt, to taste

-Onion Salt, to taste

-Dried Thyme, to taste

The Following Vegetables (or vegetables of your choice):

-Carrot, sliced thinly, lengthwise

-Cremini Mushrooms, sliced

-Scallion, sliced lengthwise

-Jalapeños, sliced

-Red Onion, sliced

-Cilantro

-A shallow bowl of water for dipping the rice paper (about the same diameter of the rice paper)

 

Peanut Sauce

 

-2 tablespoons Smooth Peanut Butter

-2 tablespoons Water

-1 1/2 teaspoons Garlic, minced

-1 1/2 tablespoons Sesame Oil

-Juice of a half Lime

-1 teaspoon sugar

-1 teaspoon Soy Sauce

The Following Seasonings to Taste:

-Black Pepper

-Garlic Powder

 

Directions:

 

1. Prepare the peanut sauce: add peanut butter and water to a small bowl and mix to combine. Add the remaining ingredients and mix well. Set aside

2. Prepare the vegan shrimp: Heat the sesame oil in a medium skillet. Season the shrimp with black pepper and seasoning salt and add to the skillet. Sauté for about five minutes. Add mince garlic, dried thyme, and onion salt and continue to sauté for an additional three minutes until shrimp is lightly browned

3. Prepare rice noodles according to package directions

4. Assemble the summer rolls: place one rice paper wrapper in the shallow bowl of water. Soak until soft and malleable (about 10 seconds). Place wrapper on a flat surface. Add the shrimp first, then place one piece of nori on top of the shrimp and about two tablespoons of the rice noodles on top of the nori. On top of the noodles, add mushrooms and red onions. Along slide the other ingredients, place carrots and scallions. Finally, add the cilantro on top

5. Taking two opposite sides of the rice paper, bring them into the center, on top of the ingredients. Take the side of the rice paper closest to you bring it to the center, tautly tucking the edge under the ingredients. Continue rolling to close

6. Take a second rice paper wrapper, dip it in water for ten seconds, and place it neatly on a flat surface. Place the summer roll in the center of this wrapper and wrap it around the summer roll, following the wrapping instructions in step 5. You should now have one double-wrapped summer roll

7. Repeat with the additional wrappers and ingredients