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Yum Alert: Step by Step Vietnamese Summer Rolls

Written by emilyc

If we can’t have summer right now, we can at least have summer rolls. Don’t let their beautifully wrapped exterior deter you from attempting them yourself – this recipe has step-by-step instructions that are way simple. Recipe and image via Not Enough Cinnamon.

vietnamese food

Ingredients:

About 14 edible rice papers
About 1 cup fresh mint leaves
About 7 oz cooked shrimps, peeled and sliced in half lengthwise
About 14 lettuce leaves
About 2 cups cooked rice vermicelli, cold
About 3 cups fresh bean sprouts

For the sauce:

4 tbsp rice vinegar
4 tbsp fish sauce
1 cup water
1 tbsp sugar
1 garlic clove, crushed (optional)
1 tbsp grated carrots (optional)

For step by step instructions, click here.

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emilyc

Emily is a New Yorker trapped in a Floridian's body and loves every minute of her big city life. With a major in international business and years of being surrounded by ill-fitting suits and all the wrong shoes, she learned that the importance of fashion needs to be communicated to the world. To her, fashion is on the same level as charity work and feeding hungry children. Emily can be found frolicking the streets of her gayborhood enjoying the off-color humor of the gays.