Friday, April 7, 2017

Fruits Spring roll | Rice paper fruit rolls | Vietnamese rice spring rolls | Summer rolls

Fruit spring rolls, an ideal recipe to make on summer/spring season with rice paper rolls and fresh fruits. It's a healthy and refreshing snack to munch on any time of the day! You can serve this as fruit snack or as dessert.

There is no strict recipes for this rolls, you can customize as per your liking or as per the fruits available in your refrigerator. Having fruit as it is very boring sometimes, but making this kind of gorgeous rice paper rolls with fruits really tempts everyone to give it a try on.

So far i have tried this thrice and each time all are gone in a few mins. It's so addictive and the idea for this rolls was inspired from gemma stafford . As i said earlier, there is no hard rule or measurement for this rolls so whatever i give under "Ingredients" column is what i used on that day to prepare the rolls. You can add more or less fruits as per your liking.

Next, coming to the rice paper, i have brought them from Asian Store in our area where it's available in both square and round shape. I have bought the square rice papers and used the same.

And i'm also sure that you can find them in most of the groceries stores under the Asian section. It comes really handy when you want to make any rolls.In addition to the fruit rolls, you can also use this rice paper as wrap for salads and serve them.It would be more interesting way to have the boring salad.

Fruit Spring Rolls

Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 0 mins | Makes : 6
Recipe Category: Dessert | Recipe Cuisine: Vietnamese

Ingredients
For Rolls
Apple - 1/2
Pineapple(round slices) - 4
Kiwi - 2
Strawberry - 4
Lemon Juice - 1 tsp
Rice paper - 6
For Dipping Sauce
Honey - 11/2 tbsp
Lemon -1
Water - as needed
Pepper - as needed

Procedure

Cut apple,pineapple into thin strips and strawberry and kiwi into thin slices.Add the lemon juice on apple to prevent from color change.Take the rice papers.

In a large bowl, take warm water and dip the rice paper in the warm water for 15 sec or until it becomes soft and more pliable.

Place the rice paper on the clean working board,place few strawberries first, then add few pieces of apples and pineapples.

Then finally add few kiwi pieces and fold the rice paper from the sides as shown in below pic.

Then roll the rice paper from bottom to top as shown in below pic, do the same for the remaining rice papers.

Now for the dipping sauce , add the honey in a bowl,then squeeze the lemon into it and add some crushed peppercorns.

Finally add some water and mix it well.

Serve fruit rolls with dipping sauce.

Notes:

You can add whatever the fruits you like, but choose the firm fruits only.
For dipping sauce, give a taste test and add more or less water as per your liking of sourness and sweetness.
Adding some peppers give a nice punch.
Depends on the brand, the rice paper takes different time to become pliable,so see the instructions on the rice paper and proceed as per the instructions

Friday, March 17, 2017

Baked Avocado Rolls with Phyllo dough | Avocado Spring Rolls | Appetizers

Baked Avocado rolls , a delicious snack with crispy outside and creamy avocado inside. It's a perfect appetizer for your meal or a snack to munch on along with your evening tea. It's one of the easiest snacks that you can make in minutes provided that you have phyllo sheets.

When we visited BJ's restaurant for the first time a couple of months back, we ordered the avocado egg rolls for the appetizers and that's the first time that i had tasted avocado rolls and i loved it so much. Crispy outside and creamy avocado filling make it so good.

It's been in my mind for a long time to try these crispy rolls and finally last week I tried this Avocado Rolls, instead of using egg wrapper as pastry, I used the phyllo dough that's sitting idle in my refrigerator for a week. Since I was using phyllo dough, I baked the rolls instead of deep frying, one more reason to indulge these rolls without any guilt 😀.

Related: How to make Baklava using Phyllo Sheets

To be honest it was way too good than what i had expected.Because of phyllo sheets, the outside was so crispy and i'm sure that it would stayed crispy for longer time than the one made with egg wrappers.I won't say that it was like BJ's Avocado Egg rolls, but if you like that one, definitely you're gonna love this, so what are you waiting for, try this rolls and enjoy with your family.

Baked Avocado Rolls

Preparation Time : 15 mins | Cooking Time : 25 mins | Serves : 3
Recipe Category: Appetizers | Recipe Cuisine: Mexican

Ingredients
Avocado(ripe) - 2
Onion(chopped) - 2 tbsp
Coriander leaves(chopped) - 2 tbsp
Jalapeno - 1
Lemon - 1
Salt - to taste
Phyllo Sheets - 7
Oil - for brushing

Procedure

Preheat the oven at 350F
Finely chop the onions,coriander leaves & jalapeno into small pieces and keep it ready.Cut the avocado into two, remove the seed and scoop out the flesh into the bowl

Mash the avocado into smooth paste with fork,immediately squeeze the lemon juice into it.

Then add the onions,coriander leaves & jalapeno into the avocado along with required salt and give a good mix.That's it stuffing is ready.

Take the phyllo sheets and thaw as per the instructions and then take one sheet at a time on the working board,brush it with oil on all over the sheets.

Now take a spoonful of avocado filling and place it on top center of the sheets, fold the sides and then start rolling the sheets till the end.

Place the rolled sheets into the baking tray, similar do the remaining sheets and brush the top with oil and bake it in the preheated oven at 350F for 22-25 mins.

Tasty & crispy spring rolls are ready.

Related: Baked Onion Samosa with Phyllo Sheets