Vietnamese Salad Rolls with Carrot Ginger Sauce make a light and nutritious meal, appetizer, or snack. These tasty spring rolls are made with rice paper, fresh julienned vegetables, and a flavorful carrot ginger sauce for dipping. Easy and SO delicious!!
This recipe for Vietnamese salad rolls was inspired by a spring roll recipe in Whole Living (a Martha Stewart magazine). I have an addiction to fresh rice paper spring rolls. When I found a similar recipe, I had to give it a try. I love rolls made with rice paper, but rice paper can be hard to find. I had to go to our local Asian market to purchase them.
The rice papers are a little tricky to work with, but once you get the hang of wetting and rolling them it becomes much easier. My daughter had fun helping me in the kitchen. She loved rolling them up like little packages.
These Vietnamese salad rolls make a light and refreshing summer meal, not to mention super healthy!! The carrot-ginger sauce tastes very similar to Japanese ginger salad dressing. I modified some ingredients to add my own twist. You can do so much with the filling in this recipe. Add ingredients that you love, roll up and enjoy!
How To Make Vietnamese Salad Rolls
Ingredients For The Rolls:
- Rice paper wrappers
- Butter lettuce leaves
- Carrot
- Cucumber
- Daikon radish
- Red bell pepper
These are the rice papers that I used for this recipe.
Recipe Steps
First, gather all your ingredients.
Chop the vegetables and place them in a bowl and mix, except lettuce. I use a julienne slicer to cut the peppers into really thin strips.
Quickly dip rice paper wrappers in a bowl of steaming hot water and lay on a flat surface. Place ⅙ of the vegetable mixture in the center of the wrapper.
Then and add one lettuce leaf on top.
Roll up on one side and tuck in both edges, rolling up until it's sealed. Continue with the remaining wrappers.
How To Make Carrot-Ginger Dipping Sauce
- Carrots
- A small shallot
- Fresh ginger
- Rice wine vinegar
- Low-sodium soy sauce
- Toasted sesame oil
- Salt and pepper
- Canola oil (you can also use extra light olive oil, avocado oil, or grapeseed oil)
- Water
Place all ingredients in a food processor except oil and water.
Next, Process the carrot mixture until smooth. With the machine running, add the oil and water through the feed tube in a slow, steady stream. Serve with rolls.
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Vietnamese Salad Rolls with Carrot-Ginger Dipping Sauce
Ingredients
For the Spring Rolls:
- 6 rice paper wrappers
- 6 small crisp lettuce leaves
- 1 medium carrot peeled and julienned
- 1 cucumber julienned
- ¾ cup coarsely grated daikon radish
- 1 red pepper julienned (seeds removed)
For the Dipping Sauce:
- 3 medium carrots peeled and coarsely chopped
- 1 small shallot quartered
- 2 tablespoon coarsely grated peeled fresh ginger
- ¼ cup rice-wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoon low-sodium soy sauce
- ¼ teaspoon toasted sesame oil
- pinch sea salt and pepper
- ¼ cup canola oil
- ¼ cup water
Instructions
For the Spring Rolls:
- Place all chopped vegetables except lettuce in a bowl and mix.
- Quickly dip rice paper wrappers in a bowl of steaming hot water and lay on a flat surface.
- Place ⅙ of the vegetable mixture in the center of a wrapper and add one lettuce leaf on top. Roll up on one side and tuck in both edges and roll up until it is sealed.
- Continue with remaining wrappers and spring roll ingredients.
- After rolls are made, make the dipping sauce.
For the Dipping Sauce:
- Place all ingredients in a food processor except oil and water.
- Process the carrot mixture until smooth. With machine running, add canola oil and water through feed tube in a slow, steady stream until sauce is well blended.
- Serve with spring rolls.
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Mia
Looks great! I love rice wrappers!
The Harried Cook
I love these... We get them at a restaurant here, but I've tried making it at home.. Thanks for the inspiration 🙂 and that sauce sounds great too! 🙂