Vietnamese Style Beef Sausage And Vegetable Spring Rolls With Mint Dipping Sauce Recipes

Steps:

• Whisk vinegar, fish sauce, sugar, lime juice, garlic, and red pepper flakes together in a small bowl. Set the dipping sauce aside.
• Fill a large bowl with room temperature water. Add rice vermicelli and soak for 1 hour.
• Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Drop in shrimp and cook until curled and pink, about 1 minute. Remove the shrimp and drain. Slice each shrimp in half lengthwise. Transfer rice vermicelli noodles to the pot of boiling water and cook for 1 minute. Remove and drain in a colander. Immediately rinse the vermicelli with cold water, stirring to separate the noodles.
• To assemble the rolls, dip 1 rice wrapper in a large bowl of room temperature water for a few seconds to soften. Place wrapper on a work surface and top with 4 shrimp halves, 1/4 of the chopped lettuce, 1/2 ounce vermicelli, and 1/4 each of the mint, cilantro, and Thai basil. Fold right and left edges of the wrapper over the ends of the filling and roll up the spring roll. Repeat with remaining wrappers and ingredients. Cut each roll in half and serve with dipping sauce.

Steps:

• Line a baking sheet with parchment paper; set aside.
• Set a cast-iron pan over medium heat, and add rice. Cook, swirling and stirring constantly, until rice turns a deep golden color, 5 to 8 minutes. Remove from heat, pour into a small heatproof bowl and allow to cool. Use a spice or coffee grinder to grind cooled rice into a fine powder.
• Place rice powder, sugar, pepper, salt, baking powder, fish sauce and garlic in a large bowl, and stir to combine.
• Add pork to the bowl, and using your hands, mix thoroughly for 1 full minute.
• Heat a cast-iron pan over medium heat. Use a heaping tablespoon of pork mixture to make a small, thin sausage patty. Add a teaspoon or so of oil, and cook the patty for 2 to 3 minutes on each side. Taste, and if needed, add salt or any other seasonings to the uncooked sausage mixture, and mix to combine.
• Divide and roll the remaining sausage into 8 3-inch logs, skewering lengthwise and placing on the prepared baking sheet as you go. Cover, and refrigerate for 30 minutes to allow flavors to come together. (Sausages can be made ahead and covered and refrigerated or frozen at this point until ready to use.)
• To cook, wipe out cast-iron pan, and return to medium heat. Add 1 tablespoon oil. When it shimmers, add sausages in a single layer, leaving space between them. Cook, rotating every 2 minutes, until browned on the surface and just cooked through, 6 to 8 minutes total.
• Drain sausages on paper towels, and serve hot.

Steps:

• To make the sausage, place all the ingredients in a medium bowl, and knead with your hands until thoroughly blended. Use right away, or cover and refrigerate for up to overnight.
• To make the sauce, combine all the ingredients in a small bowl and stir to mix. Set aside.
• To cook the sausage, film the bottom of a medium sauté pan with oil and place over medium-high heat. Add the sausage and sauté, stirring to break it into small clumps, until browned, 5 to 6 minutes. Remove from the heat and set aside.
• To make the spring rolls, lay 1 or 2 of the rice paper wrappers on a counter and spray or brush them generously with water without saturating them. Let hydrate and soften until pliable, 1 to 2 minutes. Place a lettuce leaf in the center of each wrapper, top with about 1/4 cup of the sausage, then with some bean sprouts, carrot, daikon, and scallion. Roll up the wrapper burrito-style, first folding the edge nearest you one-third of the way over the ingredients, then tucking in the sides, and finally folding the rest of the way to make a fat cylinder. Set on a platter and cover with plastic wrap to prevent drying out while you continue to fill the remaining rice paper wrappers. Serve right away, or leave at room temperature for up to 4 hours before serving.
• To serve, remove the plastic wrap and accompany with the dipping sauce.